Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-11506

Title: Tenable Nessus

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-11506.

CWE Category CWE-295

Published Date Aug 09, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.4 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-11506: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

tenable 1

Reference Links

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039141 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-11 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039141 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-11

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.4

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns