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CVE-2017-11506

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CVE-2017-11506

Published: Aug 9, 2017

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Tenable

Nessus

affected
6.x before 6.11

References

1039141
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK

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