CVE-2021-20079: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: up to and including 8.13.2

Published 2021-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.