Purpose

This document provides users with an overview of Findings. 

Introduction

Findings are the potential risks and recommended reconfiguration suggestions found during automatic and manual assessments of the target asset. These vary from security best practices which lower the attack surface of the target to exploitable vulnerabilities that were verified and confirmed as being present and relevant for the target.

Findings include their classification, risk score and information describing what it is, why it was found and how an attacker might be able to exploit the vulnerability as well as provide clear solutions to remediate the risk.

The Findings view will be visible without a Appsec subscription, but the view will be empty and you will not be able populate the view.

Requirements

It is assumed that the reader has basic access to the OUTSCAN/HIAB account with Appsec subscription. 

Findings 

The Findings view shows the vulnerabilities identified during the scans.

Click on a finding to view its details on the right side of the window.

Details

The Details tab shows the description of the selected finding along with the solution. 

Asset

The affected asset. Clicking the asset name takes you to the asset view for more information.

Solution

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides a way to capture the principal characteristics of a vulnerability and produce a numerical score reflecting its severity. The numerical score can then be translated into a qualitative representation (such as Low, Medium, High, and Critical) to help organizations properly assess and prioritize their vulnerability management processes.^[1] 

In the solution field both CVSS v2 and CVSS v3 base scores are displayed. If Environmental vector exists, it is displayed as a second section with metrics and the score is adjusted.

CWE

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) is a community-developed list of common software and hardware weaknesses that have security ramifications. A weakness is a condition in a software, firmware, hardware, or service component that, under certain circumstances, could contribute to the introduction of vulnerabilities.^[2]

CAPEC

Common Attack Pattern Enumerations and Classifications (CAPEC™) is a catalog of known cyber security attack patterns used to prevent attacks.^[3]

OWASP

The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. ^[4]

Description

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First seen

When the vulnerability was first discovered on the specific application.

Last Seen

When the vulnerability was last seen on the specific application.

Exploits

Shows if there are any known public exploits from various sources.

Only visible Farsight users. To use Farsight you first need to enable the function in your subscription. Contact support for more information on how you can enable the Farsight function.

Farsight

The Likelihood feature in Outpost24 Farsight provides an easier way to address vulnerabilities which are relevant and may impact an organization irrespective of the CVSS score or the presence of an exploit for a vulnerability.

By focusing on the likelihood, you are mitigating vulnerabilities that, based on the machine learning model, are predicting an increased risk even though it may not currently be exploited.

Risk classification of assets serves a purpose and should be conducted to further distinguish where to focus most efforts. This task can be time-consuming and may not produce viable results in the first couple of iterations. Farsight enables you to filter out some unlikely vulnerabilities with little to no prior knowledge about the vulnerabilities or assets, getting you on track with your vulnerability program faster. 

Risk Score - Likelihood 

Likelihood is a risk indicator that shows how many times more likely a vulnerability is to be exploited compared to average, where approximately 95% of all vulnerabilities are never exploited. This is displayed in the Likelihood column in the Findings view. The value can go from 1 to 100 where 100 is the equivalent of saying it will be (or has been already) exploited in the wild in the next 12 months. The benefit to the customer is the ability to drive more aggressive risk-based remediation, focusing on even fewer vulnerabilities that reach a particular likelihood.  It is also worth noting that any vulnerability already exploited in the wild will have the risk value of 100 as it has been exploited already.

Since risk score is machine learning driven, based on several factors the risk rating can decrease as well as increase based on activity in the wild.

Exploits

Comments

Comments can be a note to the finding, or the status of the finding such as resolution alternatives and so on. A comment is only applicable to that finding and can not be shared across multiple findings. Comments are threaded, in other words, it is possible to reply to a specific comment to keep this thread contained for one type of discussion which allows easy overview and segmentation of conversations. 

Tip

To access existing comments, click on the comment icon in any row to quickly launch the comments window. 

Manage Findings

Select one or more findings, and choose one of the actions that is displayed on the bottom bar:

The possible user actions are:

• Click on Add tags to add a tag to the selected finding.

• Click on Remove tags to remove a tag applied to the selected finding.

  

  See Tags for more information.
• Click on Mark as Fixed icon, and confirm by clicking YES, to update the status of that finding as fixed. 

• Click on Unmark as Fixed icon, and confirm by clicking YES, to revert the status of that finding to not fixed.

• Click on Request verification icon to add a comment and send to the technical service team for verification regarding that finding.
• Click on Change risk icon to change the change the risk information of that finding. 
• Click on Accept risk icon to accept the risk. You can also select a date and add comment.
• Click on Unaccept risk icon to revert the accepted status of that finding.
• Click on Mark as false positive icon to mark a finding as false positive.
• Click on Unmark false positive icon to unmark a finding as false positive.

Columns

By clicking the Filter bar next to the Main Menu, you expand the column list available to Findings. Select any Column to view in the main window.

Select a specific column to know that information about a finding. All selected columns are displayed in the Findings tab. The available options are described below.

References

1. https://www.first.org/cvss/
2. https://cwe.mitre.org/about/index.htm
3. https://capec.mitre.org/index.html
4. https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

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