CVE-2025-36640 describes a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in the Nessus Agent Tray App on Windows hosts, specifically during its installation or uninstallation. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), an attacker with local, low-privileged access can exploit this flaw with low complexity, potentially gaining complete control over the system (confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts are high). While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential future interest from threat actors.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 10.9.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.0.0, < 11.0.2CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.