Local Authenticated Race Condition in Windows Nessus Agent Allows Arbitrary Code Execution
CVE-2024-3292 Published on May 17, 2024
Race Condition
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. - CVE-2024-3292
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-3292 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a TOCTTOU Vulnerability?
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.
CVE-2024-3292 has been classified to as a TOCTTOU vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-3292
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Affected Versions
Tenable Nessus Agent:- Before 10.6.4 is affected.
- Before 10.6.4 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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