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Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 21, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20106

CVE-2021-20106

Description

Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

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Affected products

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  • Tenable/Nessus
    cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <=8.2.5
  • Nessus/Nessus Agentdescription
  • Tenable/Agentllm-fuzzy
    Range: <=8.2.5

Patches

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