CVE-2025-24914

highpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 4 %ileDEEURU

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.15% (4th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · vulnreport@tenable.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USCWE-276US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Tenable Security Nessus <10.8.4all versionscert_bundDE
Tenable Security Nessus< 10.8.4cert_bundDE
Tenable Nessus0 → 10.8.4enisa_euvdEU
Tenable, Inc. Nessus≤ 10.8.4fstec_bduRU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-0859Tenable Security Nessus: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-04-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Tenable Security Nessus ausnutzen, um Daten zu manipulieren, seine Privilegien zu erweitern und um nicht näher spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu erzielen.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-04-18modified 2026-06-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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