7.8High

CVE-2025-24914Local Priviledge Escalation

Tenable Nessus Published: (1 year ago)

Description

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

Weakness (CWE): CWE-276

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
Tenable Nessus < 10.8.4

References and patches