A path traversal vulnerability in Tenable Agent 11.2.0 and 11.1.3 and lower allows a privileged attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended plugin directory, potentially leading to remote code execution.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.4 · tenableNVD modified 2026-10-24 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:11.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-18 Third Party Advisory