Description

As a part of Tenable’s vulnerability disclosure program, a vulnerability in a Nessus plugin was identified and reported. This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.

Published: 2024-03-18
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Vendor Solution

Tenable has released updates to plugins to resolve the issue. The updates have been distributed via the Tenable plugin feed in feed serial numbers equal to or greater than #202403142053.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-27342 As a part of Tenable’s vulnerability disclosure program, a vulnerability in a Nessus plugin was identified and reported. This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.
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Tenable Nessus Nessus Agent
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-21T14:42:09.885Z

Reserved: 2024-03-11T22:31:40.629Z

Link: CVE-2024-2390

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.526Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-03-18T16:15:09.830

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-2390

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T15:42:35Z

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