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Improvement: Handling Component Installs for Vulnerability Assessment
Background On Friday, February 6, 2026, Tenable Research published a plugin update that changed the way component installs are assessed for vulnerabilities. Those changes are outlined in a previous ...
This is the number 1 feature I've been wanting from Tenable; the noise from "un-updateable" bundles of curl, openssl, sqlite etc. is very significant in our scans and having a way to mitigate it, even if it's not perfect (yet), is amazing. I hope this feature is further developed to take other common components into account. I'm enabling this feature in our scans and will see how much "noise" is suppressed in the scan, and I very much appreciate that prior feedback was considered making this a separate, toggleable feature for those that want to preserve these detections for audit/reporting purposes. Well done, Tenable!
