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Updating Vulnerabilities

Overview

Once a vulnerability has been created for an asset on a project, you can then update the vulnerability in a number of ways.
Considering updating vulnerabilities is part of the role for a pentester or assessor, only users with Edit access to the project can perform this function.
However, any project team member can add remediation notes & mark a vulnerability as Ready For Retesting. This allows customers, developers & engineers to track remediation performed for a given issue; and let you know once the vulnerability is ready to be retested.

Update Vulnerability

From the vulnerability page which you can access by drilling down from the project dashboard, you can use the page menu to select Edit Vulnerability.

Upload Evidence to Vulnerability

If you need to upload further evidence to a vulnerability, you can select Upload Evidence

Update/Review Vulnerabilities One-by-One

If you need to perform QA on multiple vulnerabilities, or would like to review each vulnerability one-by-one (from one screen) - you can select this option.

Bulk Overwrite Selected Fields Only

If you need to perform a bulk overwrite on selected fields across selected vulnerabilities - you can select this option.

Bulk Overwrite All Fields

If you need to perform a bulk overwrite on all fields across selected vulnerabilities - you can select this option.
!WARNING - this will overwrite all fields on every vulnerability you have selected. Use with caution.

Mark Vulnerability Ready for Retesting / Not Ready for Retesting

Once a vulnerability is ready for retesting, any user on the project can mark the vulnerability as Ready for Retesting from the vulnerability page menu.
The audit trail for the vulnerability will also be updated to reflect the change in status.
Any user can also mark the vulnerability as Not Ready for Retesting to set it back to Open status.

Add Remediation Note

As a vulnerability is in the process of remediation, project team members can update the vulnerability audit trail to include remediation notes. These notes are also synced with JIRA.

Mark Vulnerability as Closed / Re-Opened

During remediation testing, vulnerabilities can be Closed and Re-Opened depending on their status.
You can also bulk update status for vulnerabilities as follows:
  • Mark as Ready for Retesting
  • Mark as Not Ready for Retesting
  • Mark as Open
  • Mark as Closed

Bulk Add Tags

This feature will add new tags for each selected vulnerability if the tag does not already exist on the affected asset.
To customize an existing CVSS score for vulnerabilities on the project, include the following at the start in the tags:
  • CVSS:3.1
  • CVSSv3.1 Base Score:
  • CVSSv3.1 Temporal Score:
  • CVSSv3.1 Environmental Score:
  • CVSS:3.0
  • CVSSv3.0 Base Score:
  • CVSSv3.0 Temporal Score:
  • CVSSv3.0 Environmental Score:

Bulk Add Custom ReportGen Fields/Tags

This feature will add new ReportGen tags for each selected vulnerability if the tag does not already exist on the affected asset.
To customize an existing tag - if the tag/name already exists on the affected asset, it will update its value to the new supplied value.

Update Affected Asset on a Vulnerability

You can update the affected asset for a vulnerability:
Or perform bulk update across multiple vulnerabilities:

Duplicate Vulnerabilities

You can also duplicate vulnerabilities:

Delete Vulnerabilities

You can delete vulnerabilities individually:
Or you can bulk delete vulnerabilities: