CVE-2025-36630 HIGH

CVE-2025-36630: Local Privilege Escalation

Vendor Tenable

Product Nessus

Weakness CWE-269

Published July 1, 2025

Last update July 2, 2025

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CVSS base score

8.4/10

Attack vector Local

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

In Tenable Nessus versions prior to 10.8.5 on a Windows host, it was found that a non-administrative user could overwrite arbitrary local system files with log content at SYSTEM privilege.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 1, 2025 CVE published

July 2, 2025 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-36630 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html