Vulnerability in Nessus
CVE-2004-1445
A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows local users to gain privileges.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (22.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Nessus — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
References
- www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16768 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/12127/ (Patch, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-11.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10784 (Patch, vdb-entry)