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ASVS 4.0 compliance report

The OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report in Invicti lists any detected security mistakes in the scanned web application.

• OWASP is the Open Web Application Security Project and ASVS is the Application Security Verification Standard. This standard presents a strict and explicitly defined security checklist that aims to help in the design, development, and maintenance of secure web applications.
• Invicti allows you to generate an OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report. To view the technical details, you need to click the relevant vulnerability.
• The report lists issues that arise because of lack of control specified in the OWASP ASVS and provides technical details on each vulnerability. This helps you to fix any issues.
• The report is available in HTML or PDF format.

Comparison with OWASP Top Ten lists

The OWASP ASVS 4.0 and the OWASP Top Ten lists are fundamentally different.

• The OWASP Top Ten lists are standard awareness documents aimed at increasing the awareness of prevailing security issues in web applications among developers, companies, and the software industry in general.
• In contrast, the ASVS 4.0 presents a categorized list of security requirements and controls, so developers can design and write secure code. It aims to be an actual application security standard in its own right.

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There can be other security issues found in your web applications but not listed in the OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report.

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Click to view a sample OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report.

For other reports available in Invicti, refer to the Overview of reports, Report templates, Built-in reports, and Using Invicti to comply with the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard when developing web applications documents.

Report sections

There are four sections in the OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report. Each of them is explained in the following sections.

Scan metadata

This section provides details on the following items:

• Scan target: the target URL or web application being scanned.
• Scan time: when the scan was initiated.
• Scan duration: how long the scan took to complete.
• Description: additional notes or description of the scan.
• Total requests: number of HTTP requests made during the scan.
• Average speed: the average scanning speed.
• Tags: labels applied to the scan for organization.
• Risk level: the overall risk assessment of the target.

Vulnerabilities

This section provides a numerical and graphical overview of:

• Numbers: the numbers of issues detected at various vulnerability severity levels.
• Identified vulnerabilities: the total number of detected vulnerabilities.
• Confirmed vulnerabilities: the total number of vulnerabilities that Invicti verified by taking extra steps such as extracting some data from the target.

Vulnerability names and details

This section describes all identified issues and vulnerabilities, along with their impact and proof of exploit. It also explains what actions to take and a remedy for each one, including external references for more information.

The following list explains the headings in the vulnerability names and details section:

• Name: the name of the identified issue.
• Proof of exploit: a piece of evidence supplied to prove that the vulnerability exists, showing information that's extracted from the target using the vulnerability. For more information, refer to the Benefits of Proof-Based Scanning™ Technology document.

• Vulnerability details: displays further details about the vulnerability.
• Certainty value: indicates how much Invicti is sure about the identified issue.
• Impact: shows the effect of the issue or vulnerability on the target URL.
• Required skills for successful exploitation: details on how malicious hackers could exploit this issue.
• Actions to take: the immediate steps you can take to decrease the impact or prevent exploitation.

• Remedy: further steps to resolve the identified issue.
• External references: links to other websites where you can find more information.
• Classification:
  • OWASP ASVS: provides further information about this issue according to the OWASP ASVS 4.0.
  • CVSS 3.0: shows the severity score of vulnerability based on the 3.0 edition of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System.
  • CVSS 3.1: shows the severity score of vulnerability based on the 3.1 edition of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System.
• Remedy references: further information on the solution for identified issues.
• Proof of concept notes: notes that demonstrate in principle how a system may be compromised.

• Request: the whole HTTP request that Invicti sent to detect the issue.
• Response: the reply from the system against the payload.

Show/hide scan details

This section provides some profile and policy settings that Invicti uses to adjust its scanning to reach more coverage. For example, it lists all enabled security checks.

It provides information on your preference in selecting this scan so that developers have more details on how this scan was run.

For more information, refer to the Security checks document.

Generate an OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report in Invicti Enterprise

1. Select Scans > Recent Scans from the left-side menu.
2. Next to the relevant scan, choose Report.
3. On the Scan Summary page, choose Export.

4. From the Report dropdown, choose OWASP ASVS 4.0 Compliance Report.

5. From the Format dropdown, choose an option.
6. If required, choose one of the following options to configure your report:
   • Exclude addressed Issues: excludes those issues you've already taken action on. (All Information level findings are marked as Accepted Risk automatically by default. To change this behavior, see Do not mark Information issues as accepted risks option in General settings).
   • Exclude history of issues: excludes the issue history from the report. If unselected, only the last 10 history items appear in the report. For more information, refer to the Viewing issues in Invicti Enterprise document.
   • Only confirmed issues: includes only those issues that are confirmed.
   • Only unconfirmed issues: includes only those issues that are unconfirmed.
7. Click Export.

You can view the report in the saved location.

Generate an OWASP ASVS 4.0 compliance report in Invicti Standard

1. From the File tab, choose the relevant scan from Local Scans to display its results.
2. From the Reporting tab, click OWASP ASVS 4.0 Compliance Report. The Save Report As dialog is displayed.

3. Choose a save location, then choose Save.
4. The Export Report dialog is also displayed at this point, with the Path field already populated from the previous dialog.

5. From the Export Report dialog, you can decide on the following:
   • Policy: choose the default policy or customized policy reports (refer to the Custom report policies document).
   • Format: choose HTML and/or PDF format.
   • Vulnerability options (choose one or all):
     • Export confirmed: when selected, the report includes confirmed vulnerabilities.
     • Export unconfirmed: when selected, the report also includes unconfirmed vulnerabilities.
     • Export all variations: variations mean that if Invicti identified some passive or information level issues in more than one page, it doesn't show all these variations. However, users can change this by enabling or disabling this option.
   • Header and Footer: enter relevant information that appears in the header and footer section of the report.
   • Open generated report: when selected, your reports are generated when you choose Save.
6. Click Save.

You can view the report in the saved location.

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