Web Tests Session Expiration Errors

info Nessus Plugin ID 47863

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Synopsis

Nessus was logged out while running the web attacks.

Description

Nessus encountered trouble while running the web tests against the remote web server - test results may be incomplete.

Solution

Rescan with less parallelism or by requesting more session refresh, for example, by changing the following options in the scan policy :

- Preferences -> HTTP login page -> re-authenticate delay (seconds)

- Options -> Number of hosts in parallel (max_hosts)

- Options -> Number of checks in parallel (max_checks)

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 47863

File Name: web_session_expirations.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: summary

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 7/27/2010

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Settings/enable_web_app_tests

Detections

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