Manage findings
This section contains information about handling findings in CI Sense. How to access them, how they're categorized, and ways CI Sense can help with managing them.
If you like to learn more about findings in CI Sense take a look at the concept of findings.
Select and filter findings
You can view findings for a specific project by clicking on Findings on the
left sidebar. For a given run, CI Sense displays the total number of
findings and the quantities for each severity: Critical
, High
, Medium
, and Low
.
Select any of those to filter for the findings you are most interested in
viewing. There may also be categories depending on the specific findings
discovered during the fuzz run.
Manage your findings
CI Sense provides capabilities to help you manage your findings so you can properly triage, track, and ultimately fix them.
View findings for a specific project
You can asses the list of current findings for a specific project
trough the Dashboard. It contains all available project cards in
the left pane near the top.
Select the project from the dropdown menu in the left pane,
below Dashboard and then click either Overview or Findings
in the left pane.
There are three aspects you can see in the overview of current findings for a given project:
The overview provides a clear view of:
- The current number of findings, total and new.
- The
severity classification
of these findings. - The
categories
associated with the findings.
You can click the severity classification
or one of the categories
to
quickly filter for the findings you consider highest priority.
Clicking one of the filters or on the project pane itself shows you the list of findings. Click a specific finding to obtain additional information.
Finding status
A finding can have 1 of 3 different states: Open
, Assessed
, or Ignored
.
You can adjust these by selecting the Action
dropdown on the right side.
- An
open
finding indicates this finding wasn't processed in any way. If the fuzzer discovers this finding in the future, it reports it again. - An
assessed
finding is one that's currently analyzed. Assessed findings prevent the fuzzing run from failing when rediscovering them, but you still receive an alert about the finding. ignored
status is for any findings you consider unnecessary to fix for whatever reason. The fuzzer doesn't report this finding if it encounters it again.
Type and ID
The type of the finding, for example Stack Buffer Overflow, SQL Injection, or others and an
identifier used by CI Sense
.
Location
This column contains the location where the fuzzer discovered the finding.
Download your findings
You can download the findings as a PDF, Word document, or Excel document. Click on the located over the actual findings.
Link to ticket system
CI Sense can link to external ticket systems to help manage the remediation
process for a finding. Under the Action
menu on the right of the finding,
click
,
paste the URL of the created issue from Jira, GitHub, or others and click Link.
View details for a finding
When you expand a finding in the bottom pane (by clicking the >
on the left
side of a finding), it contains 3 tabs with different information: Debug
,
Description
, and Log
. These tabs contain several pieces of information that
can help you determine the root cause of the finding.
- The
debug
tab contains the fuzz test responsible for the finding, the source line, the stack trace (if available), and the crashing input. - The
description
tab contains theseverity score
, a short description of the finding, and possibly some links to additional information about this type of finding. - The
log
tab content depends on the type of fuzzing that discovered the finding. If the finding is from unit fuzzing, then the output is output directly from the fuzzer. If the finding is from Web API fuzzing, then the output contains the API request responsible for triggering the finding.