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Apache Log4j Detection Optimizations Summary: While the...
The changes below have been released in Nessus plugin feed 202201200227.
The plugin has been updated to no longer use the 'dir' and 'findstr' anymore since this can potentially use more resources and using Powershell for the file system scan, while potentially slower, uses less resources. Also, the plugin has been updated to slow down the Java archive inspection in Powershell before explicitly closing the handle. This should assist with the garbage collection and result in considerably less resource usage.
This doesn't exactly detail what was changed, just the plugins that were added/modified. We still don't have an answer to the questions above.
What changes were made, or what issues were addressed?
The resource consumption mentioned in the release highlight was the focus of the changes. More details were added to the original post and the comment above.
Thanks! This is good news, and the kind of details I have been waiting for. It seems like Tenable Support is unaware of the changes made to plugin 156001, since they haven't given any actionable guidance or answers at all for 10 days to our high priority case.
