01 Record
CVE-2021-20106
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: tenable
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 69.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-07-21 10:20Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 17:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-12-17
- Assigning CNA
- tenable
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1e82966ac29d7dd84fdc316c78c67f53e7c147271e175d4a0e47b3a3fc46d6f7
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-13