Vulnerability Emergency Response release notes
Version history for the Vulnerability Emergency Response application on the ServiceNow Store.
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Version history
- Version 3.0.1 - February 2024
- Changed:
- Consideration of secondary Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) for scanner ingested vulnerabilities during the assessment.
- Major Security Incident Management (MSIM) link is displayed on the vulnerable items (VIT)/ application vulnerable items (AVIT) in the Vulnerability Response (VR) workspaces.
- Assessment Vulnerabilities on CVEs are shown in the VR workspaces.
- The auto-flush rule is shipped to delete all the related data for Vulnerability Assessment if was closed for 6 months. Earlier, it was shipped in the base system as inactive.
- Fixed:
- Unlinking Vulnerability Assessment from Major Security Incident workspace.
- Fixed the Scanned Applications widget to show the count from all CVEs.
- Minor updates and usability issues.
- Changed:
- Version 2.0.5 - December 2023
- Fixed: The Vulnerability Assessment Calculators can be deleted only by the user with the sn_vul_analyst.read_risk_score_configuration role.
- Version 2.0.3 - November 2023
- New:
- Vulnerability Crisis Management: A complete workflow to handle vulnerability crisis events with the following capabilities:
- Identify vulnerable configuration items (CIs) by correlating critical vulnerabilities with software installations inventory from Software Asset Management (SAM), Software Bill of Materials Inventory (SBOM), scanner-reported vulnerabilities and Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
- Generate vulnerable items for remediation based on assessment results, streamlining the remediation process.
- Initiate a major security incident response, ensuring swift and coordinated action.
- Engage and collaborate with teams across the organization, facilitating a unified response to vulnerabilities.
- Provide regular status reports to affected teams, partner teams, and leadership, maintaining transparency throughout the crisis.
- Exposure Assessment: Updated assessments with the normalized inventory of Software Asset Management (SAM).
- Vulnerability Crisis Management: A complete workflow to handle vulnerability crisis events with the following capabilities:
- New:
- Version 1.0.2 - October 2023
- Fixed: Previously, the form view of records were not loading in the Vulnerability Manager and IT Remediation Owner Workspaces in the instances with the platform versions, Utah patch 0 - Utah patch 5. This issue has been fixed. The records will now load in form view in all the supported platform versions.
- Version 1.0.1 - August 2023 (Vancouver)
- New: The new Vulnerability Analyst workspace contains the Exposure Assessment module. It is used for:
- Automatic assessments of CISA KEV
- CVE or CPE-based assessment
- Software-based (Vendor, Product,Version, and Edition) assessment for zero-day vulnerabilities