CVE-2017-7199: Tenable Nessus

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: version 6.6.2 only; version 6.7 only; version 6.8.0 only; version 6.8.1 only; version 6.9.0 only; version 6.9.1 only; …

Published 2017-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.