Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and Earlier for Windows

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and Earlier for Windows

CVE-2021-20100 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific Windows executables as the Nessus host. This is different than CVE-2021-20099.

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