CVE-2026-15265

Tenable Agent Path Traversal Leading to Remote Code Execution

State: Published
Severity: 9.3 Critical
Published: Jul 14, 2026
Updated: Jul 14, 2026
Reserved: Jul 9, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	9.3 Critical	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	tenable
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:U/RC:C	tenable

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tenable_agenttenable	11.2.0Affected 11.1.3 and earlierAffected

References

TNS-2026-18vendor-advisory

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