CVE-2025-24914 | THREATINT

Description

When installing Nessus to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location. - CVE-2025-24914

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-01-28 | Published 2025-04-18 | Updated 2026-02-26 | Assigner tenable

HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Product status

Default status

affected

Any version before 10.8.4

affected

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-05

cve.org (CVE-2025-24914)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-24914)

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