CVE-2026-19629
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Tenable Security Center that allows a user with "Security Manager" role and "manage user" permission on a single group to modify users belonging to other groups. This bypasses the intended access control restrictions and enables unauthorized cross-group user management.
Risk Assessment
Unauthorized user management could lead to security policy violations and uncontrolled access to the system.
Recommendation
Apply vendor patches and review permission configurations to ensure access control restrictions are enforced.
Other vulnerabilities in Tenable Security Center
See all- CVE-2026-19626Critical
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Tenable Security Center's report generation functionality. An authenticated, non-administrative user could exploit this issue by supplying specially crafted input that is later processed unsafely during server-side report rendering, resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the service account.
- CVE-2026-19628High
Tenable Security Center has a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated administrator can modify application configuration values to achieve arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system when specific backend operations are triggered.
- CVE-2025-36636Medium
In Tenable Security Center versions prior to 6.7.0, an improper access control vulnerability exists where an authenticated user could access areas outside of their authorized scope.
Original NVD description (English source)
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Tenable Security Center that allows a user with "Security Manager" role and "manage user" permission on a single group to modify users belonging to other groups. This bypasses the intended access control restrictions and enables unauthorized cross-group user management.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS