CVE-2025-24916

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in tenable nessus network monitor. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-284
Published: 2025-05-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tenable:nessus_network_monitor

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-10

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