CVE-2026-19635: Local Privilege Escalation

Published Aug 14, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Security Center

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Tenable Security Center to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.9.0

Event History

Aug 14, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:12 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:12 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeakness
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