Deployment: Invicti Platform on-demand, Invicti Platform on-premises
Review scan results
The DAST scans page provides a list of all scans performed, including information about the scan profile, the time and date when the scan was performed, a count of vulnerabilities found for each severity level, and the current status of each scan. Invicti flags findings attributed to API specs with an API tag. API specs can come from manual uploads to a target/scan configuration, linked to a target/scan configuration, or linked from API Discovery.
From the DAST scans page, you can access the results of each scan on the Scan details page. This document provides high-level information about the Scan details page and the information you can review there.
Access scan results
When a scan is complete, Invicti emails you a summary of the results and a link to access the scan results directly.
To automatically email a report after a scan completes, follow the instructions in the New Automation document.
You can also access the scan results by following these steps in Invicti:
- Select Scans > DAST scans from the left-side menu.
- Click on the target for the relevant scan.
- The Scan details page opens. Use the tabs to view the scan results information.
For recurring scans, only the latest scan result for a specific target appears when you open the scan. In contrast, if you run multiple scans manually, each result appears separately.
Scan details
The Scan details page provides information about the scan results, grouped under six tabs.
Additionally, you can also generate a report or export the results to XML, JSON, or CSV files to share or further review them.
Vulnerabilities with False positive and Ignored statuses aren't displayed in reports, but might still be visible in the Scan details page.
Scan summary
The Scan summary tab provides an overall threat level rating for the target based on the number and severity of vulnerabilities discovered by the scanner. It also displays the number of found and open vulnerabilities by severity, a summary of the scan parameters and activities during the scan, discovered hosts, and the most vulnerable technologies detected on the target.
For detailed troubleshooting and analysis, you can download the complete scan logs from this tab, which provide comprehensive information about the scanning process, including HTTP requests, security checks, and performance metrics.
Statistics
The statistics panel shows key scan metrics at a glance:
- Scan duration - total time elapsed since the scan started.
- Requests - total number of HTTP requests sent to the target.
- Avg. response time - average server response time, including the maximum response time recorded.
- Paths identified - number of unique paths discovered on the target.
- Progress - percentage of the scan completed. During an active scan, an estimated time remaining is also shown.
Scan activity
The Scan activity panel lists key events that occurred during the scan, each with a timestamp. Events are color-coded by type:
- Green - informational events confirming that key scan actions completed successfully, for example: scan started or completed, authentication completed, API specifications detected or imported.
- Yellow - warnings that don't stop the scan but may affect results, for example: WAF was detected on this application, login forms detected but no authentication method configured.
- Red - errors that affected the scan, for example: connection failure or scan aborted due to a network error.
Additional notifications may appear depending on the target and scan configuration.
Scan summary overview
The left side displays a summary of the scan and its parameters:
- Scan target name with link.
- Screenshots taken during the scan
- if no simple form authentication or Login sequence recorder (LSR) is configured: screenshot of the first loaded page.
- if simple form authentication or LSR is configured: screenshot after the authentication.
- if authentication fails: screenshot of the failed authentication.
- Status and the date of the scan.
- Download logs button.
- Target URL.
- Scan profile, for example: Full Scan.
- Scan owner's name.
- Authentication profile used, for example: Simple form.
- Application name.
- Tags for the scan.
Vulnerabilities
This is the list of detected vulnerabilities, ordered by severity. You can filter the information by severity and target type. For example, you may choose to view only Critical and High severity vulnerabilities.
On the right-hand side, you can change which columns appear. Click a vulnerability from the list to view all information about the detection and to change the vulnerability status.
If Invicti doesn't find a vulnerability with an Open status in 3 consecutive scans, the system automatically changes its status to Fixed. For more information, refer to the Retest vulnerabilities document.
For more information, refer to the vulnerability details document.
Runtime software composition analysis findings
The availability of the Runtime SCA information depends on the scan profile used, for example Full scan.
This section lists technologies used by the scanned target that Invicti has identified as out of date. Invicti doesn't classify these as active vulnerabilities, and they don't appear in the Vulnerabilities list. However, they may still pose a risk due to the use of outdated software versions.
Select Technology from the list to view details about its detection and recommended remediation steps.
For more information, see the documentation on Runtime SCA Findings.
Site structure
Use this section to verify that the scan has covered all parts of your target and to identify vulnerabilities affecting a specific file or folder. Click Folder to expand the site structure tree and display the vulnerabilities detected in that part of your target. You can also click Vulnerability to show more information about the attack details, impact, and how to fix it.
Each path in the site structure includes the HTTP Content Type returned by the server, which helps you assess the nature of each endpoint and identify any unexpected response types.
Click a node in the tree to open a detail panel on the right. The panel shows the following information for the selected path:
- Path - the full URL of the selected node, with a copy button.
- HTTP Status - the HTTP response codes the server returned for that path. Multiple codes may appear if Invicti received different responses for different request types.
- Input data - the HTTP methods, content types, and parameters Invicti used to probe this path.
The panel also lists the vulnerabilities detected at that specific path.
Past scans
This tab is only available for recurring scans.
The Past scans tab allows you to access an overview and manage the scan schedule. You can see the summary of the last 10 scans, compare scans, and view the total number of critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities discovered.
Activity
The Activity tab provides a list of the scan events, showing when the scan started and completed, and if any errors occurred during the scan. Click on an item to reveal more details about the scan event.
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