CVE-2021-20100 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier on Windows. An authenticated, local administrator could exploit this to execute specific Windows executables with the privileges of the Nessus host. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires high privileges, but could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 8.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.