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CVE-2017-7199

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—

Nessus 6.6.2 - 6.10.3 contains a flaw related to insecure permissions that may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when the software is running in Agent Mode. Version 6.10.4 fixes this issue.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Tenable — Nessus

CWEs

References

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