Vigil@nce - Tenable Nessus: privilege escalation via the Agent Mode
May 2017 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can make profit of wrong permissions when Tenable
Nessus is running in Agent mode, in order to get administration
privileges.
Impacted products: Nessus.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 22/03/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can make profit of wrong permissions when Tenable
Nessus is running in Agent mode, in order to get administration
privileges.
A detailed analysis was not performed for this bulletin.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Tenable-Nessus-privilege-escalation-via-the-Agent-Mode-22218