10/68 Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Tenable, the developer of the “Nessus” vulnerability scanning tool, has announced the deactivation of Nessus Scanner Agent versions 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 after discovering that “differential” plugin updates caused the agents to go offline on some systems. As a precaution, the company has temporarily halted plugin updates while investigating and addressing the issue.
Tenable has outlined its remediation plan as follows:
- The Nessus Agent for Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM), Tenable Security Center (TSC), and Nessus has been downgraded from versions 10.8.0/10.8.1 to version 10.7.
- Plugin feed updates have been disabled specifically for Nessus Agent versions below 10.8 and for all Nessus Scanners linked to TVM.
Tenable has released Nessus Agent version 10.8.2 to address the issue and advises users running versions 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 to upgrade to version 10.8.2 or downgrade to version 10.7.3. Additionally, users are recommended to reset the plugin set if upgrading or downgrading the agent to ensure the agents return to an online status as expected.
Source https://securityaffairs.com/172738/security/nessus-scanner-agents-issue.html
