CVE-2024-3290 describes a race condition vulnerability in Nessus on Windows hosts, allowing an authenticated local attacker to modify installation parameters during installation. This could lead to arbitrary code execution on the Nessus host. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.2 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 10.7.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.