CVE-2025-36632 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Tenable Agent versions prior to 10.8.5 on Windows hosts. A local, non-administrative user can exploit this flaw to execute code with SYSTEM privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 10.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.