CVE-2024-2390 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0007.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Tenable	Nessus Nessus Agent

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Vendors	Products
Tenable	Nessus Nessus Agent

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
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.

Fixes

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.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2024-05

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2024-03-18T15:37:44.698Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2024-2390

Vulnrichment

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

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:09:39.010

Link: CVE-2024-2390

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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

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