New Plugin Family: UnionTech Local Security Checks
Summary Tenable will now provide vulnerability check plugins for UnionTech Unity Operating System (UOS). Impact Customers with UnionTech Unity Operating System (ServerA and ServerE) systems in their environments will be able to scan them for vulnerabilities. These plugins will have the family “UnionTech Local Security Checks”. These plugins will not have agent support at this time, but this support is expected in a future release. Target Release Date September 30, 2025
Include/Exclude Path and Tenable Utils Unzip added to Log4j Detection
Summary Tenable has updated the Apache Log4j detection plugins. The Windows plugin will now honor the Include/Exclude Filepath configuration option. The Linux/UNIX plugin will now use the version of ‘unzip’ supplied with the Nessus Agent, when enabled in the Agent’s configuration, and correctly inspect the MANIFEST.MF and pom.properties files. Change Before this update, plugin 156000, Apache Log4j Installed (Linux / Unix), would fail to detect Log4j in specific scan scenarios. The plugin uses several inspection methods to determine if a JAR file is a copy of Log4j. During Nessus Agent scans, as well as scans with ‘localhost’ as a target, the plugin was not properly executing the unzip command to inspect META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and pom.properties files in the JAR archive. If this method was the only option that would result in a successful detection, the copy of Log4j would not be detected properly. In addition, the plugin had failed to launch the unzip binary supplied with the Agent when inspecting files in JAR archives. Note: The Nessus Agent can be configured to use find and unzip binaries that it provides, instead of those supplied by the asset’s operating system. See https://docs.tenable.com/vulnerability-management/Content/Scans/AdvancedSettings.htm#Agent_Performance_Options for more information. Also before this update, plugin 156001, Apache Log4j JAR Detection (Windows), would fail to honor the directories included or excluded for full-disk searches configured in the Windows Include Filepath and Windows Exclude Filepath directives in the Advanced Settings of a scan config. Note: Configuration of these options is described in https://docs.tenable.com/vulnerability-management/Content/Scans/AdvancedSettings.htm#Windows_filesearchOptions. After this update, plugin 156000 will use the Agent-supplied copy of unzip when configured to do so. If this option is not enabled in the scan config, the plugin will use the existing method to find and execute an archive utility supplied by the asset’s operating system. In either case, the plugin will properly inspect Log4j’s MANIFEST.MF and pom.properties files as a version source. Plugin 156001 already properly inspects these files. Also after this update, plugin 156001’s Powershell code will now honor directories included or excluded by the Filepath directives. Plugin 156000 already supported this feature. Impact When scanning Linux / UNIX assets via 'localhost' (i.e. scanning the scanner itself) or with the Nessus Agent, additional Log4j instances from MANIFEST.MF or pom.properties sources may be reported. For Linux Nessus Agents with "Use Tenable supplied binaries for find and unzip" enabled and "Agent CPU Resource Control - Scan Performance Mode" set to Low, plugin 156000 will now properly limit CPU usage during scans. As noted in the product documentation, “Note: Setting your process_priority preference value to low could cause longer running scans. You may need to increase your scan-window timeframe to account for this value.” Customers should be aware of this configuration setting and potential changes to the results provided in the Log4J detection results. When scanning Windows targets, Log4j JAR files stored in paths specified in the Windows Exclude Filepath configuration will no longer be detected. Log4j JAR files stored in paths or drives specified in the Windows Include Filepath configuration that had not been previously scanned will now be detected, assuming they can be assessed before the plugin’s configured timeout has been reached. Plugins 156000 - Apache Log4j Installed (Linux / Unix) 156001 - Apache Log4j JAR Detection (Windows) Target Release Date September 1, 2025Excluding the SUSE Linux Snapshots directory from Language Library enumeration
Summary The “language library” enumeration plugins will now exclude SUSE Linux’s snapshots directory when searching the filesystem. Change Before the update, when enumerating “language libraries” - such as Python packages, Node.js modules, etc. - on SUSE Linux hosts that use btrfs as their filesystem, reduced scan performance was observed. This is because btrfs creates and maintains snapshots in the /.snapshots directory, which can contain multiple redundant copies of files. This caused unnecessary processing on thorough scans. After the update, this snapshots directory has been excluded from searches executed by the find command for language library enumeration plugins on SUSE Linux. Impact This change is expected to improve the performance of scans on SUSE Linux assets. If language libraries were present in snapshots directory, they will no longer show up in Tenable scan results, along with any associated vulnerabilities. If customers would like to scan the snapshots directory, the "Include Filepath" option in the Advanced Scan Settings configuration can be used to force the scanning of these paths. Plugins 178772 - Node.js Modules Installed (Linux / Unix) 190687 - NuGet Installed Packages (Linux / Unix) 164122 - Python Installed Packages (Linux / Unix) 207584 - Ruby Gem Modules Installed (Linux / Unix) Target Release Date September 3, 2025August 2025 Product & Research Update Newsletter
Greetings! Check out our August newsletter to learn about the latest product and research updates, upcoming and on-demand webinars and educational content — all to help you get more value from your Tenable solutions. Click here to download and read the newsletter as a PDF. Thank you! Tenable is the only vendor to be named a Customer’s Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment. In this report, Gartner Peer Insights analyzes 1,090 reviews and ratings of nine vendors in the vulnerability assessment market. We’re grateful to you, our customers. This kind of feedback tells us we're delivering on what matters most! Learn from your peers as you choose the best solution for your vulnerability assessment program. You can read the report here. Tenable Cloud Security Reminder: Tenable Cloud Security requires that you log in to view documentation and release notes. To access the documentation or try Tenable Cloud Security, contact your account manager or request a demo. Making the Headlines Tenable Cloud Security named Major Player: In its first MarketScape for CNAPP, IDC named Tenable a Major Player after a deep evaluation of our capabilities, strategies and more. Huge thanks to all who participated in the IDC customer interviews. See the press release. Tenable Cloud Security Risk Report 2025. Have you read our cloud research team’s latest report, released in June? Make it part of your summer reading! Discover today’s top cloud risks, and how Tenable helps you stay secure: Report Webinar PR Our cloud research team never sleeps. Check out the latest discovery from our stellar team. See the blog: OCI: Remote code execution Workload Protection: Bottlerocket Monitoring and On-Demand AMI Scanning Keep reading about Tenable Cloud Security updates here. Tenable One Welcome to Tenable One Monthly Releases! Tenable One is shifting to a monthly release cadence to bring you valuable improvements more frequently. This month's release delivers streamlined workflows, smarter logic and expanded functionality. Release Highlights: New public API: Easily fetch Tenable One data into your ecosystem to automate workflows, power custom reports and streamline security operations. See Open API documentation Extended findings context: Gain deeper risk visibility with expanded findings data, now available across the platform for quicker investigations. APA is FedRAMP-Authorized: Tenable Attack Path Analysis is now FedRAMP approved for use in U.S. federal and government environments! New VPR scoring in Tenable One Inventory (Beta): We recently introduced a new VPR scoring method in Tenable Vulnerability Management. This method uses machine learning and broader threat intelligence to cut noise and highlight the top 1.6% of critical threats. This enhanced scoring is now also available in Tenable One Inventory, shown in a separate Beta column alongside your existing score. See solution overview Exposure Signals from Global Search: Create custom Exposure Signals directly from global search to streamline workflows and act faster on critical insights. Self-serve connector troubleshooting: The Connectors tab now provides greater status visibility and smarter error handling, with AI summaries and step-by-step guidance to help you resolve issues on your own. Same-source deduplication logic: Use the new Settings tab to manage how you cluster assets from the same source, so you have more control over asset merging and visibility. Dashboards enhancements: Get more refined insights and better performance with new widget-level filters, additional chart types, an improved Power BI data model and more. -> Explore all platform enhancements Tenable Identity Exposure OWASP non-human identity (NHI) Top 10: What customers need to know Machine identities now outnumber human users, and they’re often far less protected. Attackers know this and exploit non-human identities (NHIs) to move laterally, escalate privileges and maintain persistence. Tenable Identity Exposure helps you detect and manage risk across NHIs, mapped to the OWASP NHI Top 10, so you can stay ahead of evolving attack surfaces, especially across Active Directory and Entra ID. Want a deeper dive? Watch the on-demand webinar: Rage Against the Machines: How to Protect Your Org’s Machine Identities. Explore the user guide to start securing your NHIs today. Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM) Enhancements to VPR now available! Tenable is thrilled to announce the general availability of enhanced Tenable Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) in the new Explore views and the Vulnerability Intelligence section within Tenable Vulnerability Management. These updates enable you to: Sharpen precision to focus on what matters most: While traditional CVSS scores classify 60% of CVEs as High or Critical, our original VPR reduced this to 3%. The enhanced VPR further refines this so your teams can focus on just 1.6% of vulnerabilities that represent actual risk to your business. You can now leverage an even broader spectrum of threat intelligence and real-time data input to predict near-term exploitation in the wild. Unlock AI-driven insights and explainability: Our new large language model (LLM) powered insights deliver instant clarity to quickly understand why an exposure matters, how threat actors have weaponized it and get clear, actionable guidance for mitigation and risk reduction. See Vulnerability Intelligence for more information. Prioritize with industry and regional context: New metadata provides crucial context to understand if a threat actor is targeting a vulnerability in your specific industry or geographic region. Leverage advanced querying and filtering: The enhanced VPR model is easily accessible for filtering and querying in the new Explore views for faster investigations and response workflows. Original VPR and the enhanced VPR ('VPR (Beta)') scores will coexist for a period of time in Tenable Vulnerability Management. We will communicate future deprecation of the original VPR in advance. For more information, see: Interactive demo Technical white paper FAQ Scoring Explained documentation Tenable OT Security Tenable OT Security 4.3: Enterprise-wide visibility and control Our latest release delivers powerful new features to enhance visibility and control across your operational technology (OT) environment and extended attack surface. Key updates in this release include: OT Agent for Windows: Extend asset discovery to hard-to-reach areas and embedded IoT systems with our new OT Agent for Windows. This lightweight, easy-to-deploy agent leverages your existing IT infrastructure to close critical visibility gaps without the need for additional hardware. Manage agents from a centralized dashboard view, with the ability to configure and schedule asset discovery and other preferences to ensure comprehensive and reliable coverage. ⚙️ Streamlined asset management: Accelerate investigations and better organize your OT/IoT inventory with new asset tags and groups. This new feature extends tagging functionality, making it easier to search for assets and reflect the structure of your environment. For Tenable Enterprise Manager users, we've also added the ability to perform centralized data updates and ruleset changes for multiple sites in batches or simultaneously, ensuring consistent administration across distributed locations. Enhanced Tenable One data integration: New data integrations allow you to accelerate investigations and proactively remediate OT risk. Tenable OT Security now reports policy events as Findings in Tenable One, giving you more visibility into events like controller code modifications and intrusion detection. This means Tenable One users can now filter for “Policy Violations" to quickly identify and address potential risks to OT environments. Additional enhancements in Tenable One include a set of new OT-related Exposure Signals, new data integrations for attack path analysis and MITRE ATT&CK mapping capabilities, and more. Additional user interface enhancements in v4.3: Asset serial number lookup via inventory Updated Sensor page navigation System Log pagination For more information, watch the latest customer update and review the full release notes. Tenable Web App Scanning API assessment enhancement: Support for GraphQL GraphQL API Assessment is now live in Tenable WAS! Use case and impact: APIs are the foundation of modern web applications and a high-value target for attackers. While Tenable already supports scanning RESTful APIs, an increasing number of applications now use GraphQL, a modern and flexible query language. With the addition of GraphQL scanning, Tenable now provides broader coverage across the modern API attack surface to help customers secure both REST and GraphQL-based applications. To get an idea of the rising popularity, both Tenable OT and Tenable Cloud Security are GraphQL APIs! For more information, see Scan Templates and Launch an API Scan in the Tenable Web App Scanning User Guide. Tenable Nessus End of support for Terrascan in all Nessus versions Tenable announces the End of Life for Terrascan in Nessus. The last day to download the affected product(s) will be Sept. 30, 2025. Customers will receive continued support through the Last Date of Support. For more information, please refer to the bulletin announcement. Nessus 10.9 is generally available Nessus 10.9 introduces several key features to empower your security teams, including offline web application scanning in Nessus Expert. For more information, see the Nessus 10.9 release notes and Nessus 10.9 User Guide. You can also view this announcement under Product Announcements in Tenable Connect. Tenable Training and Product Education We have refreshed the Tenable Education web page to help you find training across our product lineup that meets your expertise, budget and schedule. You can filter courses by product, review schedules by geographic region and easily identify no-cost courses. Additionally, we recently updated and reorganized the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section for easier navigation. Tenable Research Research Rapid Response Microsoft’s July 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 128 CVEs (CVE-2025-49719) Oracle July 2025 Critical Patch Update Addresses 165 CVEs CVE-2025-54309: CrushFTP Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited In The Wild Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-53770 could expose MachineKey configuration details from a vulnerable SharePoint Server Feature Release Highlights Azure Linux 3 Vulnerability Detection Nutanix Prism Central PAM Support Cisco Meraki Integration New Exposure Signals for OT and CS have been released for Exposure Management New Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Model Context Protocol (MCP) Detections More than 2,000 New Vulnerability Detections in July! Research Innovations How Tenable Research Discovered a Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability on Anthropic MCP Inspector AI Security: Web Flaws Resurface in Rush to Use MCP Servers OCI, Oh My: Remote Code Execution on Oracle Cloud Shell and Code Editor Integrated Services Tenable Research Advisories SimpleHelp - Multiple Vulnerabilities Gemini Search Personalization Model - Prompt Injection Enables Memory and Location Exfiltration OpenAI ChatGPT Prompt Injection via ?q= Parameter in Web InterfaceFAQ on SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploitation (CVE-2025-53770)
On July 19, researchers at Eye Security identified active exploitation in Microsoft SharePoint Server. Originally, this exploitation was believed to have been linked to a pair of flaws (CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706) dubbed “ToolShell” that was disclosed at Pwn2Own Berlin and patched in Microsoft’s July 2025 Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft published its own blog post stating that the flaw was actually a zero-day. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2025-53770 Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 9.8 Microsoft confirmed that CVE-2025-53770 is a “variant” of CVE-2025-49706. As of July 20 at 2PM PST, CVE-2025-53770 remains unpatched. Update: Since we published our community and FAQ blog post, Microsoft has created an additional CVE and added in some preliminary patches for SharePoint Subscription Edition and SharePoint Server 2019. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2025-53771 Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing Vulnerability 6.3 For more information about these vulnerabilities, including the availability of patches and Tenable product coverage, please visit our blog.CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited (CVE-2025-54309)
On July 18, CrushFTP warned that a zero-day in its CrushFTP software was being exploited in the wild. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2025-54309 Unprotected Alternate Channel Vulnerability 9.0 According to CrushFTP, the vulnerability was first discovered as being exploited on July 18 at 9AM CST, though they caution that exploitation may have “been going on for longer.” For more information about the vulnerability, including the availability of patches and Tenable product coverage, please visit our blog.July Product and Research Update Newsletter
Greetings! Check out our July newsletter to learn about the latest product and research updates, upcoming and on-demand webinars, and educational content — all to help you get more value from your Tenable solutions. Click here for a downloadable PDF of this newsletter Share Your Insights at Black Hat 2025 Attending Black Hat next month? We'd love to hear your thoughts on Tenable products! Join us for a brief, filmed in-booth interview. It's a quick (less than 10 minutes) and impactful way to share your feedback. You'll have the chance to share your opinions on camera, and rest assured, if you prefer, your feedback can remain completely anonymous if you prefer. As a thank you for your time, we'll also give you an exclusive briefing on our latest product updates. Ready to make your voice heard? Email ambassador@tenable.com to schedule your session. We'll find a time that works best for you! Tenable Cloud Security Reminder: Tenable Cloud Security requires you to log in to view documentation and release notes. To access the documentation or try Tenable Cloud Security, contact your account manager or request a demo. Code security for Azure ARM and Bicep frameworks, and APIs. Tenable now natively supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Bicep, expanding on existing coverage for AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes YAML, and Terraform across all major cloud environments. Azure users can now scan for misconfigurations directly in their infrastructure as code. Notably, Tenable Cloud Security uniquely supports Bicep, which is rapidly gaining adoption due to its simplicity. Tenable tags resources in Bicep files, auto-generates underlying ARM templates, and highlights misconfigurations directly in the Bicep code, so you can work in the Bicep layer without parsing ARM output. We’ve also introduced ingestion of Tenable IaC findings via API using the “Findings” query in the GraphQL API. This enables programmatic management of finding status. The code API has full UI parity and is consistent with all Tenable API endpoints. Workload protection now supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure + streamlined reporting. Expanding our coverage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Tenable Cloud Security now offers workload protection for OCI environments. You can scan virtual machines, including those using OCI-native and customer-managed key (CMK) encrypted volumes, alongside container images and account-level resources. Additionally, across all supported cloud environments, we have streamlined reporting: you can now generate reports directly from the Vulnerabilities page, simplifying your workflow. Enhanced IAM security across permissions and access. Tenable Cloud Security’s Microsoft Entra ID integration, recently enhanced with third-party support and MFA monitoring, can now monitor and filter all app API and delegated permissions. IAM admins get a clearer, tenant-wide view of app-level permissions, making it easier to remove unnecessary access. Are you still using the now-retired Microsoft Entra Permissions Management? Tenable is a strong replacement, with advanced CIEM, JIT access, and CNAPP capabilities spanning Entra ID, Azure and more. We’ve also improved IAM visibility for AWS and GCP with exportable Permissions Query results and enhanced tracking of custom policy changes. In GCP, access-level evaluation is now deeper with added behavior analysis and resource details. Introducing custom dashboards that you can easily build in minutes. You’ve got the power! You can now customize how dashboards look and how you present security data to help users focus on what matters most. Personalize dashboards by adjusting metrics, findings and visualizations. Choose whether to make them public or private. Save time by duplicating built-in or custom dashboards. Plus, all dashboards are now centrally located in the menu for easier access. “Projects” capability now supports integrations and automations by scope. Tenable is making it easier to manage accounts and access control across multiple accounts and providers. The Projects capability, which logically groups resources in your cloud environment, now lets you configure integrations and automations at the project level. This enables more granular control and flexibility to let specific accounts or resources follow tailored workflows aligned with your organizational structure and security policies. Tenable Identity Exposure New Entra ID IoEs to strengthen identity hygiene. Tenable has added new indicators of exposure (IoEs) to help you identify and remediate hidden risks in Entra ID environments: Managed devices not required for MFA registration: Flags tenants that allow multi-factor authentication (MFA) registration from devices your organization doesn’t manage. Without requiring managed devices, attackers with stolen credentials could set up their own MFA methods without your knowledge. Admin consent workflow not configured: Detects tenants missing an active admin consent workflow. This absence can cause errors for non-admin users trying to access applications that need consent, leading to user friction or unmonitored workarounds. Password expiration enforced: Identifies domains where password expiration policies, intended to enhance security, might actually weaken it. When you force users to change passwords frequently, they often resort to simpler or repeated passwords, which makes them more vulnerable to breaches. For more information, review the release notes. Tenable Enclave Security Tenable Enclave Security 1.5 release. We’re excited to announce the release of Tenable Enclave Security 1.5. This release includes exciting new features: Deployment assessment scanning: Quickly assess new and updated deployments before they go live, improving visibility and risk reduction during rapid delivery cycles. Expanded software composition analysis (SCA): Broaden insight into your software supply chain with deeper enumeration of third-party libraries and components, including Go, Java, PHP and unpatched vulnerabilities in container images. SecurityCenter 6.6: Now powered by PostgreSQL, the latest version enhances performance, scalability and long-term support for mission-critical environments. Policy management: New and improved experience for managing policies for CI/CD pipelines or Kubernetes clusters. For more information, review the release notes. Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM) Tenable PCI agent scan template now available. As a result of the PCI DSS 4.x specification release, credentialed scanning is now a requirement for PCI internal scanning. In response, Tenable created the Tenable PCI Agent, which you can use to scan your network via the PCI Internal Nessus Agent scan template in Tenable Vulnerability Management. PCI DSS 4.x enables you to use a customized approach objective. Using PCI DSS 4.x, the PCI Internal Nessus Agent provides the most comprehensive view of local vulnerabilities on your systems. Please visit the Scan Settings site for more details on configuring the PCI Agent and scans. Tenable Patch Management Tenable Patch Management 9.2.967.22 (on-premises). This release features minor quality improvements and bug fixes across the platform. Server updates: Bug fixes: We fixed an issue where the Business Units by Waves column in cycle tables was empty if no deployment waves existed for the cycle owner. Modified the patch server framework component to depend on the feed server, preventing a race condition during registration. Fixed a bug where patching cycles could lose business unit information after a server restart. Improved the update process for supported platforms within existing workflows and activities during server upgrades. Client updates: Bug fixes: Change to WUAHttpServer to include a content-length header on a full GET request for a file. This resolves the Windows Server 2016 patch download issue. Tenable OT Security Tenable OT Security 4.3: Scalable visibility and control for your modern enterprise. The Tenable OT Security 4.3 release delivers powerful new features to enhance visibility and control across your operational technology (OT) environments and entire attack surface. Key updates in this release include: Scalable OT agents: Extend asset discovery to hard-to-reach areas and embedded systems, closing critical visibility gaps with lightweight, easy-to-deploy agents that leverage your existing IT infrastructure. Enhanced Tenable One data integration: Accelerate investigations and improve risk remediation with new Policy Violation Findings and richer Exposure Signals for more comprehensive Attack Path Analysis. Streamlined asset management: Benefit from a responsive Vulnerability Findings side-panel for quick investigations, custom asset tags and groups for better organization, and batch data and ruleset updates in Enterprise Manager to ensure consistent administration across distributed sites or locations. Additional user interface enhancements in v4.3: You can now search the asset serial number in the inventory Updated Sensor page navigation System Log pagination To learn more about what’s new in the latest version of Tenable OT Security, watch the latest customer update and review the release notes. Tenable Nessus Nessus 10.9 is now generally available! Nessus 10.9 introduces several key features to empower your security teams: Offline web application scanning in Nessus Expert: If your organization has strict network segmentation or air-gapped environments, Nessus 10.9 now enables comprehensive web application scanning functionality. This ensures your critical web applications, even in isolated networks, receive the same thorough security assessment as those in connected environments to maintain a consistent security baseline across your entire infrastructure. Triggered agent scans in Nessus Manager: Automatically initiate vulnerability scans via Nessus Manager in response to specific events. This means you get immediate insights into your security posture as soon as the system discovers new assets or critical system changes occur. This functionality will be enabled directly through Tenable Security Center in July. Agent version declaration for offline environments in Nessus Manager: Simplify the management of your Nessus Agents in air-gapped or offline deployments. With Nessus 10.9, you can now declare agent versions for Nessus Manager agent profiles, streamlining updates and ensuring your agents are running the desired software versions, even without direct internet connectivity. Agent safe mode status reporting in Nessus Manager: Get better visibility into our Nessus Agents’ health and operational status. Nessus 10.9 provides reporting on "Agent Safe Mode" status with insights into agents that may experience issues or operate in a limited capacity. This allows for quicker identification and resolution of agent-related problems for uninterrupted scanning coverage. Nessus 10.9 is available now. We encourage all Nessus users to upgrade to take advantage of these new features and continue to strengthen your vulnerability assessment capabilities. For more information, see the Nessus 10.9 release notes and Nessus 10.9 User Guide. You can also view this announcement under Product Announcements in Tenable Connect. End of Support for Nessus and Agents on Windows 32-bit operating systems. Tenable announces End of Support for Nessus and Agents on Windows 32-bit Operating Systems. Please see the bulletin for more details. Click here to continue reading the rest of the newsletter as a downloadable PDF.
Nessus now has Windows LAPS Support
Summary: Nessus now has the ability to leverage accounts managed by Microsoft Windows LAPS. How LAPS works: Since LAPS managed accounts have their passwords rotated routinely, users cannot just directly provide the credentials in their Scan Policy. Before this change, users would instead have to make an additional privileged account on each LAPS enabled Host to provide to Nessus. Currently Nessus supports Entra LAPS allowing a scan to pull LAPS Managed Credentials from a customer’s remote Entra instance. Now, Nessus can do the same for Windows LAPS, allowing customers with local LAPS setups to gain the same benefits! Without Windows LAPS support, customers must make dedicated account for Nessus to use to scan targets Change: With this LAPS support change, during the startup phase of a scan, Nessus will reach out to a customer provided Domain Controller hosting an AD forest with LAPS enabled, and pull a list of all Local Admin Accounts for devices managed by LAPS. Nessus will then attempt to use these retrieved LAPS managed accounts as credentials when attempting to access a target host. With Windows LAPS Support, Customers need only provide a single Credential that allows Nessus to retrieve the actual credentials for LAPS Managed Devices How to enable it: To make use of Nessus’ Windows LAPS support, a customer needs only to provide the necessary info to their scan/policy via the Windows LAPS Credential. They’ll need to provide us the IP of the DC, Credentials for an account on that DC with the necessary permissions*, and the DistinguishedName of the OU that contains their LAPS managed devices. *The Account for retrieving Windows LAPS credentials needs the following permissions General Recommend the Account be added to the BUILTIN/Administrators AD Group as it grants all required permissions, including: Access to the $Admin Able to log on to the DC remotely Able to run Powershell WMI and DCOM access to Root/CIMV2 WMI Namespace LAPS Permissions LapsADReadPasswordPermission rights to the LAPS OU Be an Authorized Password Decryptor in the LAPS GPO (without this, Nessus will not be able to retrieve passwords protected by LAPS Encryption). Members of the Domain Administrators group are Authorized Password Decryptors by default. For additional information see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/laps/laps-overview Impact: Customers using Rotating Host passwords managed through Microsoft Windows LAPS can now leverage these credentials in their Nessus scans for more secure scanning configurations. Target Release Date: Nessus, T.VM On/About 09 JUN 2025 T.SC TBDResearch Release Highlight - Changes to SMB Kerberos
Research Release Highlight - Changes to SMB Kerberos Summary Kerberos has been the default authentication mechanism for domain connected Windows devices since Windows 2008. Tenable credentialed scans of Windows targets support an explicit Kerberos credential type. The explicit credential, which names the DC and domain name, frees the Nessus sensor from having to be connected to the Windows domain being scanned and allows the scanner to be hosted on Linux or MacOS as well. The nature of this explicit Kerberos credential type has widely led to the expectation that a Kerberos scan of Windows will never use NTLM. That is not true. Currently Kerberos Windows scans will fail over to using NTLM if Kerberos does not succeed. The Kerberos protocol depends on time synchronization, FQDN target specification and bi-directional DNS name resolution, but NTLM does not. Tenable fails over to NTLM to preserve scan continuity where Kerberos on the target or scanner may not be configured correctly. As each Windows credential is tried, if Kerberos fails, a second attempt will be made using NTLM. Change We are changing Windows scans so that a scan will try all Windows credentials first before trying them again using NTLM if the credential set contains at least one Kerberos credential. This change also extends our Kerberos coverage to include Windows Configuration Manager and Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) scans. Impact In certain customer environments where a single service credential (username/password) is used across multiple domains the current failover behavior causes NTLM to be used prematurely when it is possible that a subsequent Kerberos credential targeting a different domain might succeed. The change here favors Kerberos first and only fails over to NTLM after all credentials have been tried. Customers can also modify their SCCM (Windows Configuration Manager) credentials to include the domain controller's FQDN to allow those scans to use Kerberos. The net effect of these changes will be reduced dependency on NTLM in Windows scans and should produce better results in some cases. Target Release Date 07/16/2025Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent: Patch Mapping Improvements
Summary Improvements have been made to how Nessus plugins determine the active version of Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent. How Patch Mapping Works for Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent Scans Prior to these improvements, the Enterprise Manager Agent version was determined by mapping installed patch IDs to a version number based on a lookup/mapping table that we maintain and ship to scanners as part of the feed. Installed patches for most Oracle products, including Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Agent, are enumerated in one of two possible ways: Linux Local Detections: oracle_enum_products_nix.bin (plugin ID 71642, requires SSH credentials) Windows Local Detections: oracle_enum_products_win.nbin (plugin ID 71643, requires SMB credentials) Both of the above plugins store patch information in a temporary database known as the “scratchpad” (a temporary SQLite Database), for later reference. Plugin ID 86575 (oracle_enterprise_manager_agent_installed.nbin) reports only the base version (e.g 13.5.0.0.0). The full version (patch level) is determined, processed for the relevant vulnerabilities and reported in the individual vulnerability plugins (e.g plugin ID 192753), again by referencing a Tenable managed mapping table. Problem This process alone is sometimes problematic, as Oracle releases their patches in stages or sometimes outside of the regular CPU cadence. As our mapping table is manually maintained, some patches are not mapped in time for vulnerability plugin releases, which is a semi-automated process. We have had several instances where our mapping table was not updated in a timely manner - either because Oracle released a new patch ID in an out of band cycle or they released a patch ID that we do not have visibility on. If our scan fails to identify a patch ID that exists in our mapping table, only the base version is reported (e.g. 13.5.0.0.0), possibly resulting in False Positive findings. Improvements We have identified additional methods of determining the version number, including the patch level, without depending solely on the mapping tables. Plugin ID 86575 will now first attempt to use the new method of determining the version directly and will fall back to the findings of the mapping table if needed. The existing mapping tables are still checked, and a version comparison is performed to determine the highest patch level present. For Enterprise Manager Agent, the vulnerability plugins like 192753 will no longer need to determine for themselves the installed version (patch level), as this will now be done via the underlying detection plugin, 86575. This plugin will now also report all of the installed patches for the ORACLE_HOME in which the detected Enterprise Manager Agent product resides. Expected Impact Improved accuracy in version detections for Oracle Enterprise Manager, resulting in fewer false positives in downstream vulnerability detection plugins. Impacted Plugins - 86575 - oracle_enterprise_manager_agent_installed.nbin - All Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent local vulnerability check plugins (e.g 192753) Targeted Release Date - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
