Description

In Tenable Agent 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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-36631

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.4

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

Affected Products

Vendor: Tenable

Product: Agent

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.47% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-30 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-36631
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-11

Timeline