CVE-2025-24915

highpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 8 %ileDEEU

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.19% (8th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 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.

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

v3.17.8highCVSS: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-276US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Tenable Security Nessus Agent <10.7.4all versionscert_bundDE
Tenable Security Nessus Agent <10.8.3all versionscert_bundDE
Tenable Security Nessus≤ Agent <10.7.4cert_bundDE
Tenable Security Nessus≤ Agent <10.8.3cert_bundDE
Tenable Nessus Agent0 → 10.8.3enisa_euvdEU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-0610Tenable Security Nessus Agent: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2025-03-20csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle im Tenable Security Nessus Agent ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-03-21modified 2026-06-17

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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