Nessus 10.4.0 Release Notes - 2022-10-27

New Features

The following are the new features included in Tenable Nessus 10.4.0:

• You can now activate new Tenable Nessus Professional and Tenable Nessus Expert trials from within the application when you start Tenable Nessus for the first time.

• Tenable Nessus Expert users can now view Terrascan results and generate reports from the Tenable Nessus Expert user interface.

• You can now log in and perform some operations while Tenable Nessus compiles plugins.

• You can now manage multiple agents at once by using bulk commands from the Tenable Nessus Manager user interface.

• Nessus usernames can now contain parentheses — "(" and ")".

• Nessus now has improved log rotation flexibility.

• Nessus now supports FIPS mode communications.

• Nessus now has improved TLS 1.3 support due to the following additions:

  • The ChaCha20 stream cipher with the Poly1305 message authentication code.

  • The Ed25519 and Ed448 digital signature algorithms.

  • The x25519 and x448 key exchange protocols.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following enhancements are included in Tenable Nessus 10.4.0:

• You can now make copies of scan templates.

• ASM scan efficiency improvements.

• Report queue processing improvements.

• Scan note language improvements.

Security Updates

The following are security updates included in Nessus 10.4.0:

• Updated the following libraries to address several vulnerabilities:

  • Updated datatables to 1.12.1.

  • Updated jquery-ui to 1.13.2.

  • Updated less.js to 4.1.3.

  • Updated moment.js to 2.29.4.

  • Updated select2.js to 4.0.13.

  • Updated underscore.js to 1.13.4.

  • Updated zlib to 1.2.13.

  For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

• Fixed an input validation issue for some input fields that relied on client-side validation.

• Updated Nessus Manager linking so that linking keys for agents, scanners, and nodes are now different from each other.

Bug Fixes

Bug Fix	Defect ID	Applies to
Improved scan start-up performance for scans with many individually enabled plugins.	01363633	All Tenable Nessus versions
Fixed a bug that deleted the local scanner and caused all agents and agent groups to disappear from the Tenable Nessus Manager user interface.	01420559	All Tenable Nessus versions
Fixed a bug that caused the PDF report to show a black background behind hostnames.	01408918	All Tenable Nessus versions
Fixed an issue that caused missing scan results from child nodes of a Nessus cluster.	01395643	Nessus Manager
Improved overall performance when viewing the agents in a cluster group.	01370959	Nessus Manager
The port scanner can now report more than 1024 open ports, if a user configures it to do so.	01074232	All Tenable Nessus versions
Fixed an issue where scans exported as .nessus files were missing an encoding identifier.	01426496	All Tenable Nessus versions
Agent plugin updates on cluster child nodes no longer conflict with plugin delivery to agents.	01424572	Nessus Manager
Fixed an issue where scans would stop during the Pending status.	01412489	Nessus Manager
Fixed an issue where CVS reports would not list all hosts, depending on which filters were being used.	01403242	All Tenable Nessus versions
Fixed an issue where Customized Report options would not take effect.	01448980	All Tenable Nessus versions
Cleaned up deleted scans initiated by Tenable Security Center.	01445862	Nessus Manager
PDF reports now support Japanese characters.	01406825	All Tenable Nessus versions
Cleaned up scan deletion tracking and ensured that items from respective report directories are deleted.	01445862	Nessus Manager