Brian Martin

Nessus was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue and a local denial of service condition due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode. This may allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on the system hosting a Nessus agent.

Nessus was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode. This may allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on the system hosting a Nessus agent. This is tracked internally as NES-6023.

Nessus was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a crafted file that could be written to anywhere on the system. This could be used to subsequently gain elevated privileges on the system (e.g. after a reboot). This issue only affects installations on Windows.

SecurityCenter has recently been discovered to contain several vulnerabilities. Four issues in the SC code were discovered during internal testing by Barry Clark, and several third-party libraries were upgraded as part of our internal security process. Note that the library vulnerabilities were not fully diagnosed so SecurityCenter is possibly impacted.

Log Correlation Engine (LCE) 4.8.2 is possibly impacted by multiple vulnerabilities reported in third-party libraries. Tenable has not investigated each one to determine if it is exploitable or the vulnerable code path can be reached. Instead, Dev has upgraded the impacted libraries as a faster and safer alternative.