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Public search query: agent re-ran the full scope scan instead of retrying only the failed subset
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel workers overwrote each other's junit reports: how to merge - map-reduce summaries of a 300-page portfolio contradicted each other and the agent picked the wrong one without...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's concurrent scans overwrote each other's output files
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent failing to record which template found each nuclei finding, by preserving template identity from the JSONL through to the report's provenance. Use when findings in the report cannot be traced to the nuclei template that produced them. Not for manual findings, which record the tester and technique…
Fixes a pentest agent scan diff that flags ordinary configuration changes as new vulnerabilities, by diffing on normalised finding identity and classifying changes before labelling them new. Use when a diff report between two authorized scans invents new issues out of changed banners, versions, or settings. Not for ge…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security revi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan diff flagged config changes as new vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent double-counting findings when a fixed template is re-run, by making re-imports replace that template's earlier results for a target instead of appending. Use when totals jump after rerunning one corrected template on an authorized target. Not for findings from different templates that legitimatel…
Fixes a pentest agent chain-of-custody log that misses a rescan which cleared a finding, by logging every scan and rescan event against the finding it affects. Use when the engagement audit trail cannot explain why a finding changed state. Not for informal exploratory scans a tester ran outside the engagement record, …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's finding dedup merged distinct vulnerabilities into one finding - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent merged sqlmap and nuclei findings from different hosts into one finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent report whose finding count changes between drafts with no new scan data, by versioning the findings set and diffing drafts against it. Use when successive drafts of the same engagement report disagree on totals. Not for changes caused by documented triage or a rescan between drafts, which belong …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [the agent closed 200 CVEs as "fixed" because the new base image changed the pack…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's finding count changed between report drafts with no new scan data
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent ran trivy with --severity HIGH,CRITICAL and reported zero findings - the medium CVEs it skipped included... - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's severity mapping flipped medium findings to high across the report
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent reporting the same CVE twice with different severities in one report, by enforcing one canonical finding per CVE and host with a single scored severity. Use when a report lists a duplicate CVE entry whose severity disagrees with itself. Not for the same CVE on different hosts, which are separate …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - trivy and grype report the same OpenSSL CVE under different identifiers - the agent opened two tickets and nobody... - [the agent's dedup keyed on image digest but the registry retagged the same dige…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported the same CVE twice with different severities in one report
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent dedup step that merges distinct vulnerabilities into one finding, by keying dedup on host, check, and affected parameter or path together. Use when the agent's report shows fewer findings than the scanner output contains, with unlike issues collapsed. Not for true duplicates of the same check on …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - parser agent merged two candidates into one record - same name, different emails, no dedup key on file - agent failed to fit finding notes in context limit and dropped critical vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's finding dedup merged distinct vulnerabilities into one finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Breaks a pentest agent loop that keeps re-running the same errored nuclei template, by recording template failures and excluding a failed template until it changes. Use when the agent log shows one template erroring repeatedly during an authorized scan. Not for templates that fire findings successfully, which are supp…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop: re-running the same dbt model after no-op changes - agent keeps re-running nuclei scan that already failed on authorized target
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent looped re-running the same nuclei template after it errored
Problem outcome: unknown