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Nessus False Positive

Admin, June 25, 2024August 11, 2025

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Windows Speculative Execution Configuration Check


According to MS: KB4072698: Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI guidance to protect against silicon-based microarchitectural and speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities – Microsoft Support

Nessus scans say that the current settings are vulnerable when in fact they are the direct MS recommendation for combining mitigations.

Nessus recommended settings to remediate vs the output above

I have reported this to the Nessus team for review

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