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Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Nov 3, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20135

CVE-2021-20135

Description

Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. Tenable has included a fix for this issue in Nessus 10.0.0. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus).

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Affected products

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  • Tenable/Nessus2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=8.15.2
    • (no CPE)range: <=8.15.2
  • Nessus/Nessus Agentdescription
  • Tenable/Agentllm-create
    Range: <=8.15.2

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