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Version 1.252

Oct 28, 2025, 5:56 PM

  • Detection (improved jre/bin jar inspection)

Plugin Feed: 202510281756

Version 1.251

Oct 15, 2025, 4:14 PM

  • Detection (enhanced duplicate detection)

Plugin Feed: 202510151614

Version 1.249

Oct 8, 2025, 9:19 AM

  • Logic Changes (Allow forking plugins to report all installs for structured vuln data.)

Plugin Feed: 202510080919

Version 1.248

Sep 30, 2025, 12:41 AM

  • Logic Changes (Add extra checks to see whether plugins should run. Modernisation of the HTTP/1 library. Various corrections and fixes for CPE related Flatline Test Failures. Remove spurious authentication header.)

Plugin Feed: 202509300041

Version 1.246

Aug 11, 2025, 11:36 PM

  • Detection (Shared library optimization)

Plugin Feed: 202508112336

Version 1.245

Jul 28, 2025, 4:47 PM

  • Logic Changes (RSA SSH certificates can use SHA2 signatures when needed)

Plugin Feed: 202507281647

Version 1.244

Jul 25, 2025, 3:16 PM

  • Detection (improved handling of IBM java)

Plugin Feed: 202507251516

Version 1.243

Jul 22, 2025, 3:24 AM

  • Detection (Turn off failover to NTLM if 'only_use_kerberos' is set.)

Plugin Feed: 202507220324

Version 1.242

Jul 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202507150239

Version 1.241

Jul 10, 2025, 5:41 PM

  • Logic Changes (Windows CA support)

Plugin Feed: 202507101741

Version 1.240

Jun 27, 2025, 8:01 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202506272001

Version 1.239

Jun 23, 2025, 9:47 PM

  • Detection (improved identification for some Java instances)
  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202506232147

Version 1.237

Jun 16, 2025, 4:11 PM

  • Logic Changes (Validate X509 certificates against CA's CRL in preference to OCSP.)

Plugin Feed: 202506161611

Version 1.235

Jun 5, 2025, 2:05 AM

  • Detection (Improved artifact inspection)

Plugin Feed: 202506050205

Version 1.234

May 28, 2025, 9:47 AM

  • Logic Changes (Streamline SSH compatibility code)

Plugin Feed: 202505280947

Version 1.233

May 7, 2025, 3:51 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202505071551

Version 1.232

Apr 30, 2025, 5:21 PM

  • Detection (Enhancing comparison logic from versions obtained from registry)

Plugin Feed: 202504301721

Version 1.231

Apr 28, 2025, 4:40 PM

  • Logic Changes (Handling absence of SSH privilege escalation uniformly across products)

Plugin Feed: 202504281640

Version 1.230

Apr 24, 2025, 6:32 PM

  • Detection (improved version reporting for OpenJDK)

Plugin Feed: 202504241832

Version 1.229

Apr 1, 2025, 12:23 AM

  • Logic Changes (Handle Cisco devices that echo command and prompt before command results.)

Plugin Feed: 202504010023

Version 1.228

Mar 31, 2025, 5:13 PM

  • Detection (Improvements to OS detection results. adding remote detection support for SEoL plugins)

Plugin Feed: 202503311713

Version 1.227

Mar 20, 2025, 7:47 AM

  • Detection (Handle DISA /etc/profile.d/ssh_confirm.sh consent prompt.)

Plugin Feed: 202503200747

Version 1.224

Mar 6, 2025, 7:23 AM

  • Detection (Handle long MOTD with pagination on Nokia devices.)

Plugin Feed: 202503060723

Version 1.223

Mar 3, 2025, 9:41 PM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202503032141

Version 1.221

Feb 19, 2025, 9:31 PM

  • Plugin requirements (added wmi requirements)

Plugin Feed: 202502192131

Version 1.220

Feb 12, 2025, 3:29 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202502121529

Version 1.219

Feb 12, 2025, 1:58 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202502120158

Version 1.218

Feb 10, 2025, 4:00 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202502101600

Version 1.216

Jan 21, 2025, 6:17 PM

  • Detection (Add SSH local checks support for Union Tech UOS)

Plugin Feed: 202501211817

Version 1.215

Jan 21, 2025, 12:30 PM

  • Detection (improved handling of version.txt)

Plugin Feed: 202501211230

Version 1.213

Jan 15, 2025, 1:31 AM

  • Logic Changes (Structured vuln reporting for MS Rollups)

Plugin Feed: 202501150131

Version 1.212

Jan 13, 2025, 10:27 PM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202501132227

Version 1.211

Jan 13, 2025, 7:38 PM

  • Logic Changes (Add display fix to structured reporting.)

Plugin Feed: 202501131938

Version 1.207

Dec 24, 2024, 11:44 AM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202412241144

Version 1.206

Dec 16, 2024, 8:47 PM

  • Logic Changes (Handle Alibaba Linux rpm lists the same as other RPM based distros)

Plugin Feed: 202412162047

Version 1.205

Dec 10, 2024, 12:21 AM

  • Detection (Improved Oracle Java detection)

Plugin Feed: 202412100021

Version 1.203

Dec 4, 2024, 3:28 PM

  • Detection (Improved Windows Java version determination when only registry versions are available)

Plugin Feed: 202412041528

Version 1.202

Dec 3, 2024, 3:59 PM

  • Detection (Support Azure Linux for generated package plugins.)

Plugin Feed: 202412031559

Version 1.201

Nov 22, 2024, 6:54 PM

  • Logic Changes (Fixed installation reporting)

Plugin Feed: 202411221854

Version 1.200

Nov 20, 2024, 5:30 PM

  • Detection (Reports vulnerable dpkg based packages as structured data.)

Plugin Feed: 202411201730

Version 1.199

Nov 18, 2024, 8:22 PM

  • Detection (Reports vulnerable rpm based packages as structured data.)

Plugin Feed: 202411182022

Version 1.198

Nov 18, 2024, 3:19 PM

  • Detection (Windows Java enumeration improvements)

Plugin Feed: 202411181519

Version 1.196

Nov 12, 2024, 8:29 PM

  • Logic Changes (Adding installs report)

Plugin Feed: 202411122029

Version 1.194

Nov 4, 2024, 6:02 PM

  • Plugin requirements

Plugin Feed: 202411041802

Version 1.192

Oct 29, 2024, 8:44 PM

  • Logic Changes (Extend structured reporting to vcf_extras)

Plugin Feed: 202410292044

Version 1.187

Oct 10, 2024, 11:57 PM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202410102357

Version 1.186

Oct 9, 2024, 5:56 PM

  • Logic Changes (Corrects vulnerability-finding structured data tags to include the port.)

Plugin Feed: 202410091756

Version 1.182

Oct 3, 2024, 6:29 PM

  • Detection (Adding hardware constraint support to VCF and UCF)

Plugin Feed: 202410031829

Version 1.181

Oct 2, 2024, 4:10 PM

  • Logic Changes (Adds structured data reports to a subset of manual plugins.)

Plugin Feed: 202410021610

Version 1.180

Sep 23, 2024, 4:07 PM

  • Logic Changes (Consolidate all calls to "rpm -qa")

Plugin Feed: 202409231607

Version 1.178

Sep 3, 2024, 11:47 PM

  • Logic Changes (additional data collection for runtime scanning. fixed logic bug causing potential false negatives. fixed logic bug causing potential false positives. fixed logic bug with potential to break cyberark logins)

Plugin Feed: 202409032347

Version 1.174

Aug 14, 2024, 8:33 PM

  • Logic Changes (Endianness fix in Kerberos authentication for SCAP scanning)

Plugin Feed: 202408142033

Version 1.173

Aug 6, 2024, 4:43 PM

  • Detection (Fix to allow Nessus Agent audits to query security settings registry key default values.)

Plugin Feed: 202408061643

Version 1.171

Jul 30, 2024, 2:54 PM

  • Detection (missing zulu code workaround)

Plugin Feed: 202407301454

Version 1.167

Jul 17, 2024, 11:02 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202407172302

Version 1.166

Jul 16, 2024, 4:34 PM

  • Detection (improved detection for Amazon Corretto)

Plugin Feed: 202407161634

Version 1.165

Jul 2, 2024, 5:23 PM

  • Detection (improved logic around duplication of jre found in jdk)

Plugin Feed: 202407021723

Version 1.164

Jun 27, 2024, 9:09 PM

  • New (Deploy nessus_utils binaries on the Nessus Agent)

Plugin Feed: 202406272109

Version 1.162

Jun 21, 2024, 9:43 PM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202406212143

Version 1.161

Jun 21, 2024, 2:16 PM

  • Detection (correction to reporting for IBM and Oracle Java)

Plugin Feed: 202406211416

Version 1.159

Jun 12, 2024, 4:30 PM

  • Logic Changes (Prefer replace_kb_item in debug KBs to prevent unintentional duplication/forking)

Plugin Feed: 202406121630

Version 1.158

Jun 3, 2024, 7:01 PM

  • Detection (Better normalization of Java version information)

Plugin Feed: 202406031901

Version 1.156

May 22, 2024, 9:37 AM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202405220937

Version 1.155

May 20, 2024, 1:19 PM

  • Detection (added additional binary check and rt.jar inspection for amazon corretto)

Plugin Feed: 202405201319

Version 1.154

May 20, 2024, 10:13 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202405201013

Version 1.153

May 7, 2024, 10:55 AM

  • Logic Changes (Streamling reporting for unpatched rpm based vuln checks.)

Plugin Feed: 202405071055

Version 1.148

Apr 16, 2024, 4:33 PM

  • Logic Changes (Structured reporting for unpatched rpm based vuln checks.)

Plugin Feed: 202404161633

Version 1.145

Mar 27, 2024, 7:16 PM

  • Detection (Debian kernel vulns will now be evaluated against the running kernel version instead of the highest installed version)

Plugin Feed: 202403271916

Version 1.143

Mar 19, 2024, 6:40 PM

  • Logic Changes (Improving logging to reduce disk space usage)

Plugin Feed: 202403191840

Version 1.142

Mar 19, 2024, 4:40 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202403191640

Version 1.139

Mar 5, 2024, 2:40 PM

  • Detection (improved file verification for Windows Agents)

Plugin Feed: 202403051440

Version 1.138

Mar 5, 2024, 1:15 AM

  • Logic Changes (Report structured data for Microsoft Exchange checks.. Report structured data for RPM version checks.)

Plugin Feed: 202403050115

Version 1.136

Mar 4, 2024, 5:08 PM

  • Logic Changes (Add support functions for unpatched debian/ubuntu vuln checks.)

Plugin Feed: 202403041708

Version 1.135

Feb 27, 2024, 8:49 PM

  • Logic Changes (Report structured data for DPKG version checks.)

Plugin Feed: 202402272049

Version 1.129

Feb 9, 2024, 11:22 AM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202402091122

Version 1.128

Feb 8, 2024, 12:29 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202402081229

Version 1.127

Jan 20, 2024, 7:10 PM

  • Logic Changes (Updated parse_rpm_name() to handle package names that have no release information.)

Plugin Feed: 202401201910

Version 1.126

Jan 16, 2024, 8:55 PM

  • Logic Changes (Improving debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202401162055

Version 1.125

Jan 16, 2024, 5:39 PM

  • Detection (Support privacy mode DCOM over Kerberos)
  • Logic Changes (Improving debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202401161739

Version 1.123

Dec 20, 2023, 4:49 PM

  • Detection (improved version reporting for Corretto Java)

Plugin Feed: 202312201649

Version 1.121

Dec 11, 2023, 4:04 PM

  • Detection (Fixed the reported version format for Amazon Corretto Java.)

Plugin Feed: 202312111604

Version 1.120

Nov 23, 2023, 2:20 PM

  • Detection (improved associated file checks)

Plugin Feed: 202311231420

Version 1.119

Nov 16, 2023, 7:01 PM

  • Detection (improved detection of AdoptOpenJDK)

Plugin Feed: 202311161901

Version 1.118

Nov 14, 2023, 4:21 PM

  • Detection (Support SHA2 based encryption for Kerberos)

Plugin Feed: 202311141621

Version 1.113

Oct 24, 2023, 4:27 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202310241627

Version 1.112

Oct 17, 2023, 3:57 AM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202310170357

Version 1.111

Oct 16, 2023, 11:47 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202310162347

Version 1.107

Oct 3, 2023, 6:16 PM

  • New

Plugin Feed: 202310031816

Version 1.106

Sep 26, 2023, 8:16 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202309262016

Version 1.105

Sep 20, 2023, 6:07 PM

  • Detection (improved detection for IBM Java)

Plugin Feed: 202309201807

Version 1.104

Sep 5, 2023, 4:12 PM

  • Detection (improved detection, especially for IBM Java)

Plugin Feed: 202309051612

Version 1.103

Aug 16, 2023, 6:07 PM

  • Detection (better handling for IBM Java)

Plugin Feed: 202308161807

Version 1.102

Jul 31, 2023, 8:08 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202307312008

Version 1.101

Jul 24, 2023, 7:10 PM

  • Detection

Plugin Feed: 202307241910

Version 1.100

Jul 17, 2023, 5:15 PM

  • Logic Changes (Make torture_cgi library PCP clean and consolidate utf16_to_ascii())

Plugin Feed: 202307171715

Version 1.99

Jul 10, 2023, 7:11 PM

  • Logic Changes (Restrict ClientHello ciphersuites by encapsulation)

Plugin Feed: 202307101911

Version 1.98

Jun 26, 2023, 12:02 PM

  • Detection (detection method updates)

Plugin Feed: 202306261202

Version 1.97

Jun 20, 2023, 9:07 PM

  • Logic Changes (Temporarily limit debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202306202107

Version 1.96

Jun 9, 2023, 12:10 AM

  • Logic Changes (Fix two function returns)

Plugin Feed: 202306090010

Version 1.94

Jun 1, 2023, 5:27 AM

  • Logic Changes (Better logging)

Plugin Feed: 202306010527

Version 1.93

May 16, 2023, 7:02 PM

  • Detection (Authenticate WMI/DCOM using Kerberos credentials.)

Plugin Feed: 202305161902

Version 1.91

May 1, 2023, 9:07 PM

  • Detection (Make and use compatibility wrapper for running commands on scanner localhost to handle deprecation of pread().)

Plugin Feed: 202305012107

Version 1.88

Apr 14, 2023, 12:04 PM

  • Detection (improved version reporting)

Plugin Feed: 202304141204

Version 1.87

Apr 7, 2023, 10:11 AM

  • Plugin metadata (spelling)

Plugin Feed: 202304071011

Version 1.86

Apr 6, 2023, 6:58 PM

  • Detection (Add Kerberos debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202304061858

Version 1.85

Mar 29, 2023, 12:13 AM

  • Detection (Improved Azul Zulu detection and displayed versions.)

Plugin Feed: 202303290013

Version 1.83

Mar 8, 2023, 12:30 PM

  • Detection (Use single quotes for file path in Powershell command)

Plugin Feed: 202303081230

Version 1.82

Mar 8, 2023, 1:05 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202303080105

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