CVE-2018-1141

CVE-2018-1141 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Tenable Nessus versions prior to 7.0.3. When Nessus was installed to a non-default directory, it failed to enforce secure permissions on sub-directories, allowing a low-privileged local attacker to potentially gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with high attack complexity and requiring low privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.