Tenable Nessus < 10.8.4 Privilege Escalation (TNS-2025-05)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234838

Synopsis

An instance of Nessus installed on the remote system is affected by privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Tenable Nessus application running on the remote host is prior to 10.8.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TNS-2025-05 advisory.

- 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Tenable Nessus 10.8.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234838

File Name: nessus_TNS-2025-05_CVE-2025-24914.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/25/2025

Updated: 4/25/2025

Configuration: Enable thorough checks (optional)

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:tenable:nessus

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Tenable Nessus

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24914

IAVA: 2025-A-0294

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