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CVE-2025-36630: Local Privilege Escalation
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2025-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
In Tenable Nessus versions prior to 10.8.5 on a Windows host, it was found that a non-administrative user could overwrite arbitrary local system files with log content at SYSTEM privilege.
Affected products
- Tenable Nessus: before 10.8.5 — fixed in 10.8.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Tenable Nessus 10.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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