CVE-2025-36633: Tenable Nessus Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Tenable Agent versions prior to 10.8.5 on a Windows host, it was found that a non-administrative user could arbitrarily delete local system files with SYSTEM privilege, potentially leading to local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus Agent: before 10.8.5 (fixed in 10.8.5)

Published 2025-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.