vulnerability

Scanning Diagnostics: Permission error when connecting to the WMI Service

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

Description


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




The configured credential did not have the required permissions to connect to WMI remotely.




WMI access is required for accurate Policy assessments, certain system settings required for policy assessment can only be collected via WMI.

Solution

rapid7-diagnostics-wmi-permission-error

References

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