CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-11506

7.4 HIGH Published 2017-08-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-08-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

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.

Affected configurations

• tenable nessus 6.0.0 • tenable nessus 6.0.1 • tenable nessus 6.0.2 • tenable nessus 6.1.0 • tenable nessus 6.1.1 • tenable nessus 6.1.2 • tenable nessus 6.2.0 • tenable nessus 6.2.1 • tenable nessus 6.3.0 • tenable nessus 6.3.1 • tenable nessus 6.3.2 • tenable nessus 6.3.3 • tenable nessus 6.3.4 • tenable nessus 6.3.5 • tenable nessus 6.3.6 • tenable nessus 6.3.7 • tenable nessus 6.4.0 • tenable nessus 6.4.1 • tenable nessus 6.4.2 • tenable nessus 6.4.3 • tenable nessus 6.5.0 • tenable nessus 6.5.1 • tenable nessus 6.5.2 • tenable nessus 6.5.3 • tenable nessus 6.5.4 • tenable nessus 6.5.5 • tenable nessus 6.5.6 • tenable nessus 6.6.0 • tenable nessus 6.6.1 • tenable nessus 6.6.2 • tenable nessus 6.7.0 • tenable nessus 6.8.0 • tenable nessus 6.8.1 • tenable nessus 6.9.0 • tenable nessus 6.9.1 • tenable nessus 6.9.2 • tenable nessus 6.9.3 • tenable nessus 6.10.0 • tenable nessus 6.10.1 • tenable nessus 6.10.2 • tenable nessus 6.10.3 • tenable nessus 6.10.4 • tenable nessus 6.10.5 • tenable nessus 6.10.6 • tenable nessus 6.10.7 • tenable nessus 6.10.8 • tenable nessus 6.10.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References