Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Nessus Versions Prior to 7.0.3

CVE-2018-1141 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location, Nessus versions prior to 7.0.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the installation location.

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