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THREATINT
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CVE-2025-24915



Description

When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories.  This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.

Reserved 2025-01-28 | Published 2025-03-21 | Updated 2025-03-22 | 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 10.8.3
affected

Credits

Will Dormann finder

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-02

cve.org (CVE-2025-24915)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-24915)

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