What is CVE-2024-3292?

CVE-2024-3292 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2024-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-3292?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent

CVE-2024-3292

A race condition vulnerability exists where an authenticated, local attacker on a Windows Nessus Agent host could modify installation parameters at installation time, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the Nessus host…

Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)

EPSS: 0.000 (13.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Tenable Nessus Agent — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2024-09

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3292?: CVE-2024-3292 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Agent, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2024-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-3292?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.