As information about new vulnerabilities is discovered and released into the general public domain, Tenable Research designs programs to detect them. These programs are named plugins and are written in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL). The plugins contain vulnerability information, a simplified set of remediation actions and the algorithm to test for the presence of the security issue. Tenable Research has published 286076 plugins, covering 110553 CVE IDs and 30933 Bugtraq IDs.
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 272116 | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-7854-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272115 | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7850-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272114 | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : libxml2 vulnerability (USN-7852-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272113 | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7853-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272112 | Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: gstreamer1 (UTSA-2025-988621) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272111 | Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: ongres-scram (UTSA-2025-988625) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | high | 
| 272110 | Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: xml-security (UTSA-2025-988626) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | medium | 
| 272109 | Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: poppler (UTSA-2025-988623) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | low | 
| 272108 | Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: squid (UTSA-2025-988624) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | medium | 
| 272107 | Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: samba (UTSA-2025-988620) | Nessus | Unity Linux Local Security Checks | medium | 
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 272065 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40086 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272064 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40098 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272063 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40096 | Nessus | Misc. | high | 
| 272062 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40093 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272061 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40105 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272060 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40101 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272059 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40091 | Nessus | Misc. | high | 
| 272058 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40095 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272057 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40103 | Nessus | Misc. | medium | 
| 272056 | Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40102 | Nessus | Misc. | high |