VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-11506

high
Published 2017-08-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
tenablenessus6.0.0
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tenablenessus6.8.0
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tenablenessus6.9.0
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tenablenessus6.10.0
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tenablenessus6.10.9

References

CWEs

CWE-295

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.