Tenable Nessus Agent up to 10.6.3 permissions

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Tenable Nessus Agent up to 10.6.3. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to permissions. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-3291. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Tenable Nessus Agent up to 10.6.3. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permissions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-281. The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

When installing Nessus Agent to a directory outside of the default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.6.4 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.

It is possible to read the advisory at tenable.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-3291 since 04/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 10.6.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 7.8
CNA Vector (Tenable Network Security, Inc.): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Permissions
CWE: CWE-281 / CWE-266
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ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Nessus Agent 10.6.4

Timelineinfo

04/03/2024 🔍
05/17/2024 +44 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: tenable.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-3291 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-3291
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-265043
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20091204

Entryinfo

Created: 05/17/2024 23:25
Changes: 05/17/2024 23:25 (64)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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