Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-20100

Title: Tenable Nessus Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-20100.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 28, 2021

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.7 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-20100: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

tenable 1

Reference Links

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.7

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-20100 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 28, 2021 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.