Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 2023 Release Notes

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 2023 Release Notes

These release notes are listed in reverse chronological order. To jump to a place in the release notes, use the list to the right.

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.1 - 2023-11-29

Note: This release includes a fix for a potential vulnerability. For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.1:

Changed the Web Proxy Method option in the Web Proxy Settings from a text box to a drop-down list.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see theTenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.x User Guide and the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

Security Updates

The following are security updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.1:

Support for OpenSSL 3.0.12
Support for zlib-1.3
Support for mobile-detect 1.4.5
Support for jquery.scrollTo 2.1.3
Support for jquery-file-upload 10.8.0
Support for Handlebars.js 4.7.8

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)
RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.6 (64-bit)

Note: You can run Tenable Nessus Network Monitor in PCAP mode in Oracle Linux 8 in Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) mode.
RH9, version 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: High Performance Mode is not available for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.x in RH 9.0 because Red Hat does not support the igb_uio Linux driver. This driver will be replaced by the VFIO Linux driver in a future release.
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 (all 64-bit)

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.0 - 2023-10-25

Note: This release includes a fix for a potential vulnerability. For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.0:

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor uses more reliable algorithms to discover MAC addresses.
Tenable Nessus Network Monitor limits the number of hosts and the file size for uploads to Tenable Vulnerability Management.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.x User Guide and the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

Security Updates

The following are security updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.0:

Support for pcre 8.45
Support for libjpeg 9e
Support for libxmlsec 1.3.1
Support for OpenSSL 3.0.11

Bug Fixes

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.0 includes the following bug fix:

Fixed an issue where NNM plugins were reporting an incorrect version of Google Chrome.

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)
RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.6 (64-bit)
RH9, version 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: High Performance Mode is not available for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.3.x in RH 9.0 because Red Hat does not support the igb_uio Linux driver. This driver will be replaced by the VFIO Linux driver in a future release.
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 (all 64-bit)

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.3 - 2023-07-25

Bug Fixes

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.3 fixes an issue where Tenable Nessus Network Monitor failed to start after upgrading to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.2.

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)
RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.7 (64-bit)
RH9, version 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: High Performance Mode is not available for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.x in RH 9.0 because Red Hat does not support the igb_uio Linux driver. This driver will be replaced by the VFIO Linux driver in a future release.
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 (all 64-bit)

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.2 - 2023-06-29

Note: This release includes a fix for a potential vulnerability. For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.2:

Upgraded third-party packages required for NIAP re-certification.
Tenable Nessus Network Monitor instances that link to cloud.tenable.com now link to sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.x User Guide and the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

Security Updates

The following are security updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.2:

Support for c-ares 1.19.1
Support for curl 8.1.2
Support for libbzip2 1.0.8
Support for libpcre 8.44
Support for libxml2 2.11.1
Support for libxslt 1.1.37
Support for libxmlsec 1.2.37
Support for sqlite 3.40.1
Support for jQuery Cookie 1.4.1
Support for jQuery UI 1.13.2
Support for OpenSSL 3.0.9

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)
RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.7 (64-bit)
RH9, version 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: High Performance Mode is not available for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.x in RH 9.0 because Red Hat does not support the igb_uio Linux driver. This driver will be replaced by the VFIO Linux driver in a future release.
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 (all 64-bit)

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.1 - 2023-05-09

Note: This release includes a fix for a potential vulnerability. For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.1:

Support for ERSPAN Type 2 Tunneling
The NIAP protocol has changed to disallow OCSP Signer certificates that do not have the OCSP Signer flag in the Extended Key Usage section of the SSL certificate. If you have enabled NIAP Mode in a previous version of Tenable Nessus Network Monitor, then Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.1 will not turn off NIAP Mode if there are issues with your SSL certificates.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.x User Guide and the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

Security Updates

The following are security updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.1:

Support for OpenSSL 3.0.8

Note: Due to security issues with OpenSSL 3.0.5, Tenable recommends updating to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.1 or later.
Support for the OpenSSL FIPS Module

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)
RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.7 (64-bit)
RH9, version 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: High Performance Mode is not available for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.x in RH 9.0 because Red Hat does not support the igb_uio Linux driver. This driver will be replaced by the VFIO Linux driver in a future release.
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 (all 64-bit)