# CVE-2025-24916: Improper Access Control leads to Local Priviledge Escalation

> Local attackers can escalate privileges if Tenable Network Monitor is installed to a non-default location with insecure permissions.

- **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 May 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9wpx-f5qr-7rcr

## What is CVE-2025-24916?

CVE-2025-24916 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Network Monitor, published on 23 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

When installing Tenable Network Monitor to a non-default location on a Windows host, Tenable Network Monitor versions prior to 6.5.1 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-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24916?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tenable Nessus Network Monitor.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24916?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24916 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24916 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Tenable Network Monitor

- [CVE-2024-9158](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9158/): XSS (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2025-24917](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24917/): Improper Access Control leads to Local Privilege Escalation (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-5794](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5794/): Path traversal in Nessus Network Monitor (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2023-5624](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5624/): Blind SQL Injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2023-5622](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5622/): Privilege Escalation (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24916 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24916 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Network Monitor, published on 23 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Tenable Network Monitor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24916/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24916/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24916
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24916
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24916

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24916/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.