CVE-2018-1141 Misconfiguration in Nessus

What is CVE-2018-1141?

CVE-2018-1141 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, published on 20 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location, Nessus versions prior to 7.0.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the installation location.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1141?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tenable Nessus.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1141?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1141 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-1141 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1141 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Tenable Nessus

• CVE-2022-4313 Command injection in Tenable.io, Tenable.sc and Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0524 Privilege escalation in Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0101 Privilege escalation in Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2022-32973 Privilege escalation in Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2025-36630 Local Privilege Escalation High 8.4

All Tenable Nessus vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3pmq-rcw5-rm9v.