CVE-2026-19635: Tenable Security Center

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Security Center. An attacker with write access to a specific configuration file could achieve arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges, without requiring further user or victim interaction.

Affected products

• Tenable Security Center: before 6.9.0 (fixed in 6.9.0)

Published 2026-08-14. Last modified 2026-08-19.