Man-in-the-middle attack in Tenable Nessus - CVE-2017-11506
Published: August 15, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7890
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 9.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11506
CWE-ID: CWE-300
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attack.
The weakness exists due to insufficient verification of the manager's TLS certificate when making the initial outgoing connection. A remote attacker can conduct a man-in-the-middle attack to access and modify data communicated between the scanner/agent and the manager.
The weakness exists due to insufficient verification of the manager's TLS certificate when making the initial outgoing connection. A remote attacker can conduct a man-in-the-middle attack to access and modify data communicated between the scanner/agent and the manager.
Affected software
Tenable Nessus
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11506
Update to version 6.11.