What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2024-3289
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-281
Description
When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.7.3 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.
Affected products
- Tenable Nessus: through 10.7.2
References
Get alerted when CVE-2024-3289 or the next vulnerability affects your stack