CVE-2026-15265

critical · 9.4

A path traversal vulnerability in Tenable Agent 11.2.0 and 11.1.3 and lower allows a privileged attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended plugin directory, potentially leading to remote code execution.

9.4

CVSS

0.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

45th

EPSS percentile

2026-07-14

Published

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Weaknesses

CWE-22CWE-347

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
tenable	nessus_agent	< 11.1.4
tenable	nessus_agent	11.2.0

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References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-18

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-15265