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High 8.8Published Aug 14, 2026

CVE-2026-19635Local Privilege Escalation

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It affects Tenable, Inc. Security Center. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Security Center. An attacker with write access to a specific configuration file could achieve arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges, without requiring further user or victim interaction.

CVSS
8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
tenable
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Aug 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Tenable, Inc. Security Center
tenable:security_center (from the name)
before 6.9.0
CNA record
tenable security_center
tenable:security_center
before 6.9.0
NVD

References

  • vendor-advisory

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