Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open

Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships...

Unix Software Discovery Command Checks

Nessus plugins run OS commands locally on the target host to discover and characterize software that is not managed by the target operating system. This plugin runs those commands over SSH to determine whether there is any problem that might prevent the successful discovery of unmanaged software...

Unix Software Discovery Commands Available

Nessus was able to determine that it is possible for plugins to find and identify versions of software on the target host. Software that is not managed by the operating system is typically found and characterized using these commands. This was measured by running commands used by unmanaged softwa...