CVE-2026-19635

8.5 highEPSS 0.2%

High (8.5) in tenable security center. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Security Center. An attacker with write access to a specific configuration file could achieve arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges, without requiring further user or victim interaction.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.5 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2026-08-14
Modified: 2026-08-19
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tenable:security_center

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-22

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