Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0 - Release Notes - 2022-09-20

Note: Standard support for Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 5.12 ended on 09/30/2022. Tenable recommends updating to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 5.13.1 or later. Otherwise, you will not be able to report issues and bugs. Users that connect to Tenable Vulnerability Management using a web proxy need to upgrade to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.1.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0:

  • Support OpenSSL 3.0:

    • Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0 includes security enhancements to support OpenSSL 3.0. The default connection mode of Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0 is TLS 1.2.

  • Support for cloud.tenable.com's new Web Application Firewall (WAF):

    • Supports enhanced security for Tenable Vulnerability Management connections.

  • User interface Security Enhancements.

  • Update Tenable Nessus Network Monitor's Key to use SHA-2 signing instead of SHA-1.

  • Enhance Tenable Nessus Network Monitor to send vulnerabilities for the last hour when connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management for the first time.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see the Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.x User Guide and the Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

Release Notes

The following are updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0:

  • Tenable Nessus Network Monitor's rpm's are now signed with a 4096 bit signature using SHA256.

  • If you are running Tenable Nessus Network Monitor in NIAP mode using the default Tenable Nessus Network Monitor self-signed certificates or if your CA signed certificates are missing the Authority Key Identifier or Subject Key Identifier, OpenSSL 3.0 considers your SSL certificates to be invalid. Tenable Nessus Network Monitor disables NIAP Mode for these conditions and issue a message in the UI when the user logs on.

  • The latest patches from js.node are included as part of this release.

  • If you connect to Tenable Vulnerability Management using a Web Proxy, you must upgrade to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.1.0.

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

  • RH7/CentOS7, version 7.9 (64-bit)

  • RH8/CentOS8, versions 8.2-8.5 (64-bit)

  • Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016 (all 64-bit)