[Vulnerability Alert] Critical Security Vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent (CVE-2025-36633)

publish date : 2025-06-23 update date : 2025-06-23

Source: Ministry of education information & communication security contingency platform


Publication Number	TACERT-ANA-2025062001063131	Publication Time	2025/06/20 13:04
Incident Type	ANA-Vulnerability Alert	Discovery Time	2025/06/20 13:04
Impact Level	Low
[Subject] [Vulnerability Alert] Critical Security Vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent (CVE-2025-36633)
[Content] Forwarded from TWCERTCC-200-202506-00000015 Tenable provides the widely deployed vulnerability scanning tool Nessus, along with the world’s first exposure management platform for securing digital assets across any environment. Recently, Tenable disclosed a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-36633, CVSS: 8.8). In affected versions of Nessus Agent on Windows systems prior to version 10.8.5, non-administrator users may be able to delete arbitrary system files using SYSTEM-level privileges, leading to local privilege escalation. Information Sharing Level: WHITE (Information content can be publicly disclosed)
[Affected Platform] Tenable Agent versions earlier than 10.8.5
[Recommended Actions] Please update to Tenable Agent version 10.8.5
[Reference] https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-169-10191-409d1-1.html

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