🛡️ CVE-2025-24916 — nessus-network-monitor

🟠 CVSS 7.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
7.0
CVSS Score
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Description

When installing Tenable Network Monitor to a non-default location on a Windows host, Tenable Network Monitor versions prior to 6.5.1 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-24916 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-24916 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nessus-network-monitor (fixed in 6.5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.tenable.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-23
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nessus-network-monitor — 6.5.1

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