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Scanning Diagnostics: Unknown error encountered when access WinRM

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Scanning Diagnostics: Unknown error encountered when access WinRM

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.

The scanning user encountered an unexpected error when connecting to the WinRM Service. This could be due to network problems, or unexpected behaviour on the target (e.g. shutdown during a scan).

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-unknown-error

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