🛡️ CVE-2025-36630 — nessus

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-36630 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2025-36630 is recorded against 1 package.

• nessus (fixed in 10.8.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 July 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

Other advisories for this package

nessus has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-57588 (3.3 Low, published 25 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-57587 (5.3 Medium, published 25 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2024-0955 (4.8 Medium, published 7 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2024-0971 (6.5 Medium, published 7 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2023-6178 (6.8 Medium, published 20 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2023-6062 (6.8 Medium, published 20 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2023-5847 (6.7 Medium, published 1 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2023-3251 (4.1 Medium, published 29 Aug 2023)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management) in other software:

• CVE-2025-54996 (8.0 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2020-7938 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-22513 (2.0 Low, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-38487 (7.0 High, published 16 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2025-31272 (7.8 High, published 11 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2025-5088 (8.3 High, published 5 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2025-43306 (7.8 High, published 26 May 2026)
• CVE-2025-13618 (9.8 Critical, published 5 May 2026)

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References