Tenable incident
Tenable Vulnerability Management: RBAC Permissions Issue with Custom Roles
Tenable experienced a major incident on October 6, 2026 affecting AP-SYD-1 and BR01 and 1 more component, lasting 6d 9h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
We are aware of and actively investigating an issue impacting access to certain settings for some users with custom PCI roles. We will provide periodic updates as our engineers continue working on this issue
- investigating Oct 07, 2026, 08:59 AM UTC
Our engineering team continues to investigate this issue.
- investigating Oct 07, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC
Our engineering team continues to investigate this issue.
- investigating Oct 07, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC
Our engineering team is continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- investigating Oct 08, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC
Our engineering team continues to investigate this issue.
- investigating Oct 08, 2026, 07:36 AM UTC
Our engineering team continues to investigate this issue.
- identified Oct 08, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC
We have identified the cause of the problem. Our engineering team is working to implement a fix for the issue.
- identified Oct 09, 2026, 08:33 AM UTC
We have identified the cause of the problem. Our engineering team is working to implement a fix for the issue.
- monitoring Oct 09, 2026, 07:10 PM UTC
We have implemented a fix for the issue and are monitoring the recovery. If users with custom roles lost access to Platform Settings, an administrator will need to re-enable those permissions manually. Steps are in our KB article: https://connect.tenable.com/kb/tenable-vulnerability-mgmt-kb/platform-settings-permissions-removed-from-certain-custom-roles-in-tenable-vulne/112533 If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to technical support for assistance.
- resolved Oct 13, 2026, 07:49 AM UTC
The issue has been resolved. We are sorry for the disruption and inconvenience.