CVE-2025-36640

Local Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Jan 13, 2026
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Apr 15, 2025

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the installation/uninstallation of the Nessus Agent Tray App on Windows Hosts which could lead to escalation of privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P	tenable
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	tenable

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Nessus AgentTenable	before 10.9.3Affected 11.0.0 to before 11.0.2Affected

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-01

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