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Fixes an agent IOC matching failure caused by defanged hxxps URLs never being normalised before a threat feed lookup, by refanging and canonicalising indicators first. Use when known bad URLs miss in the agent feed checks. Not for feed outages where lookups error rather than return no match.
Fixes backup monitoring that misses a failed Commvault job because the agent stops paginating job history early, by reconciling fetched counts against the server total and checkpointing the cursor. Use when failures are found manually days later. Not for a Commvault job that was never submitted.
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…
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 report missing web findings because its Burp scan import failed silently, by making the importer validate counts and surface errors. Use when Burp found web issues that never reach the agent's report. Not for Burp scans that genuinely found nothing, which import as an explicit zero.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - security scanner agent's SARIF report failed to parse: finding triage stalled - agent failed to parse ZAP XML report; findings list came back empty
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's burp scan import failed silently; report missing web findings
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - the rescan proved nothing - agent emailed the findings to the wrong manager - approval chain misread
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's chain-of-custody log missed the rescan that cleared a finding
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Fixes a pentest agent reporting no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as a clean result, by treating empty scanner output as a failed run until proven otherwise. Use when a report claims a clean target but the underlying nuclei output file is empty. Not for genuinely clean scans with a full output rec…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as clean
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent merging sqlmap and nuclei findings from different hosts into one finding, by enforcing host identity during cross-tool correlation. Use when a merged finding cites evidence from more than one authorized host. Not for one host's findings from two tools, which should correlate into a single finding.
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
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
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent generated a report with CVSS scores that don't match the findings - NVD says CVSS 9.8, the agent's recompute said 7.5 - it dropped the Scope metric
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent assigned CVSS vectors to informational findings
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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
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Public search query: agent's severity mapping flipped medium findings to high across the report
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Fixes a pentest agent dropping findings when merging nuclei JSONL into a master report, by parsing JSONL line by line with error accounting and reconciling counts. Use when report totals are lower than the nuclei output contains for an authorized scan. Not for findings removed by documented false-positive triage.
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