Description
When linking a Nessus scanner or agent to Tenable.io or other manager, Nessus 6.x before 6.11 does not verify the manager's TLS certificate when making the initial outgoing connection. This could allow man-in-the-middle attacks.
Published: 2017-08-09
Score: 7.4 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-3123 When linking a Nessus scanner or agent to Tenable.io or other manager, Nessus 6.x before 6.11 does not verify the manager's TLS certificate when making the initial outgoing connection. This could allow man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:34:29.415Z

Reserved: 2017-07-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11506

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-09T12:29:00.257

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-11506

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