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CVE-2025-36640: Local Privilege Escalation
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
A vulnerability has been identified in the installation/uninstallation of the Nessus Agent Tray App on Windows Hosts which could lead to escalation of privileges.
Affected products
- Tenable Nessus: before 10.9.3; from 11.0.0 before 11.0.2 — fixed in 10.9.3, 11.0.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Tenable Nessus 10.9.3, 11.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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