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Scanning Diagnostics: WinRM service was accessible over unencrypted protocol

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Scanning Diagnostics: WinRM service was accessible over unencrypted protocol

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/02/2021
Created
11/03/2021
Added
11/02/2021
Modified
11/02/2021

Description

The following information is for Scan Diagnostic purposes only, and is not indicative of a detected vulnerability.

WinRM should be configured to only be accessible over HTTPS, connections over HTTP are not secure and may leak data.

WinRM access is required for accurate Windows Policy assessments, it is used to collect information on hardening compliance, amongst other Windows configuration data.

Solution(s)

  • rapid7-diagnostics-winrm-unencrypted

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