Open Ports and the Assets workbench

Note: If your organization has not yet enabled Relocate Open Port Findings, these features do not appear. However, in the coming weeks, they will become the system default.

Note: When you enable Relocate Open Port Findings, you no longer receive open port findings in your third-party integrations, since open ports are no longer stored as individual findings.

Note: Open port findings from scans run before such findings were moved to the Asset Details page may temporarily appear on the Findings workbench. New open port findings do not appear there.

Tip: For more information about open ports and the Tenable Vulnerability Management API, see the API changelog in the Tenable Developer Portal. For more information, contact Tenable Customer Support.

Tenable Vulnerability Management displays open port findings on the Asset Details page, which appears when you click a host asset on the Assets workbench and then click See All Details. On the Asset Details page, the Open Ports tab shows open ports on an asset and includes the port protocol, when the port was first and last detected open, and the service running on the port.

Working with Open Ports

Use the following features to search for, manage, and export your open ports data:

Open Ports filter — On the Assets workbench, search for open ports on host assets.
Open Ports tag rule — On the Assets workbench, add tags to your open ports.
Open Ports export field — With a custom field, export open port data from the Assets workbench.

Supported Plugins

The Open Ports tab shows output from the following high-traffic plugins:

34220 - Netstat Portscanner (WMI)
34252 - Microsoft Windows Remote Listeners Enumeration (WMI)
11219 - Nessus SYN Scanner
14272 - Netstat Portscanner (SSH)
25221 - Remote listeners enumeration (Linux / AIX)
10736 - DCE Services Enumeration
99265 - macOS Remote Listeners Enumeration
10335 - Nessus TCP scanner
14274 - Nessus SNMP Scanner
34277 - Nessus UDP Scanner