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Out of scope vulnerabilities

Web applications

  • Reports from automated tools or scans
  • Denial of service attacks
  • Man in the middle attacks
  • Attacks requiring physical access to a device
  • Hypothetical issues that do not have any practical impact
  • Publicly accessible login panels without proof of exploitation
  • Findings derived primarily from social engineering (e.g. phishing, vishing, smishing) and other non-technical attacks
  • Informative severity and low severity issues
  • Spamming
  • Clickjacking and issues only exploitable through clickjacking.
  • Fingerprinting / banner disclosure on common/public services.
  • Mail configuration issues (SPF, DKIM, DMARC settings)
  • Descriptive error messages (e.g. stack traces, application or server errors)
  • HTTP 404 codes/pages or other HTTP non-200 codes/pages.
  • Disclosure of known public or non-sensitive files or directories, (e.g. robots.txt,crossdomain.xml and any other policy files, wildcard presence/misconfiguration in these).
  • Nonstandard HTTP method enabled
  • Missing Security headers such as Strict-Transport-Security, X-Frame-Options, X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options
  • Lack of Secure, HTTP Only, and SameSite flags on non-sensitive Cookies.
  • Open redirect that cannot be used to exfiltrate sensitive information such as session cookies, OAuth tokens
  • Management issues with multiple concurrent active sessions
  • Host-header injection attacks
  • Self-XSS and issues exploitable only through Self-XS
  • CSRF on forms that are available to anonymous users (e.g. the contact form).
  • CSRF on logout
  • Presence of application or web browser "autocomplete" or "save password" functionality.
  • Forgot Password page brute force attack protection and account lockout policies not enforced.
  • Username or email enumeration without any further impact
  • Rate limiting issues
  • Weak Captcha or Captcha Bypass
  • Use of a known-vulnerable library without a description of an exploit specific to our implementation
  • SSL issues (e.g. weak/insecure cipher, BEAST, BREACH, renegotiation attacks)

Product vulnerabilities

  • Issues that can be covered by adding a detection signature
  • DLL injection
  • DLL hijacking
  • No SSL in update/download servers
  • Local AV engine bypasses
  • Tapjacking
  • Known vulnerabilities in third party components
  • Attacks only possible with admin privileges will be evaluated case-by-case

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