https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-25

According to its self-reported version number, the version of Plex Media Server installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.18.2. It is, therefore, affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the Plex Update Service due to exposed functionality over an ALPC port. An unauthenticated, local attacker can exploit this, via the ALPC port, to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

CVE-2020-5740

high

Tenable Plugins

high