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- Tenable advises users to upgrade their Nessus circumstances to prevent a prospective plugin security concern
- A previous plugin upgrade saw representatives going offline
- The earliest tidy variation is 10.8.2, so users must upgrade now
Tenable has actually advised users to upgrade their Nessus circumstances to prevent a possible plugin security concern.
Tenable Nessus is a commonly utilized vulnerability scanner that assists recognize and examine security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance problems in networks, applications, and systems.
In the last hours of December 2024, the business stated it was “conscious of and actively examining” a concern with Nessus representatives going offline after plugin updates for particular users on all websites – and as an outcome, the business momentarily stopped plugin updates.
Resetting plugins
The occurrence obviously impacted Nessus Agent variations 10.8.0 and 10.8.1, for users in North and Latin America, Europe, and Asia. To deal with the concern, Tenable launched Nessus Agent variation 10.8.2.
“There is a recognized problem which can trigger Tenable Nessus Agent 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 to go offline when a differential plugin upgrade is activated. To avoid such a problem, Tenable has actually disabled plugin feed updates for these 2 representative variations. Furthermore, Tenable has actually disabled the 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 variations to avoid additional problems,” the release keeps in mind detailed.
Now, users are contacted us to either upgrade to 10.8.2, or downgrade to 10.7.3 to bring their Nessus representatives online. They likewise require to reset their plugins.
“If you are utilizing representative profiles for representative upgrades or downgrades, you should carry out a different plugin reset to recuperate any offline representatives,” the business concluded.
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To adress the bugs, users initially require to reset representative plugins through a script or a nessuscli reset command, and after that by hand update the Tenable Nessus Agent utilizing the 10.8.2 set up plan.
Tenable claims to have more 44,000 clients worldwide, consisting of 65% of the Fortune 500. While the specific variety of Nessus users isn’t openly divulged, it is safe to presume that Nessus is rather popular in the cybersecurity neighborhood.
Via BleepingComputer
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Sead is an experienced freelance reporter based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He discusses IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, information breaches, laws and policies). In his profession, covering more than a years, he’s composed for various media outlets, consisting of Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s likewise held numerous modules on material composing for Represent Communications.
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