CVE-2025-24915 Privilege escalation in Nessus Agent
Local attackers can escalate privileges if Nessus Agent is installed to a non-default location with insecure directory permissions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-24915?
CVE-2025-24915 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent, published on 21 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.
Weakness: CWE-276
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24915?
How do I fix CVE-2025-24915?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24915 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-24915 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24915 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x7rr-8x5p-q75q.