Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-24916

Title: Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-24916.

CWE Category CWE-284

Published Date May 23, 2025

Modified Date Oct 23, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.0 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-24916: When installing Tenable Network Monitor to a non-default location on a Windows host, Tenable Network Monitor versions prior to 6.5.1 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.

Impacted Vendors

tenable 1

Reference Links

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-10

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.0

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-24916 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

October 23, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 23, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 23, 2025 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity HIGH

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.