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.
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Solution

Tenable has released Security Center 6.9.0 to address these issues. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal:  https://www.tenable.com/downloads/security-center


Workaround

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History

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Local Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-14T17:45:27.668Z

Reserved: 2026-08-12T16:13:37.568Z

Link: CVE-2026-19635

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