Over the past week, we have been busy updating Acunetix to detect Log4j vulnerabilities that have been making the headlines. Acunetix is detecting the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability (Log4Shell) as an out-of-band vulnerability using the AcuMonitor service. In addition, the AcuMonitor service and Acunetix have been updated…
Acunetix introduces support for the detection of HTTP/2 vulnerabilities and improves handling of Laravel CSRF tokens
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.6.211207099. This Acunetix release introduces support for the detection of HTTP/2 vulnerabilities. HTTP/2 is an upgrade to the HTTP protocol and is used more and more frequently. It does however introduce a…
Acunetix introduces support for Brotli encoding, IAST support for new Node.js frameworks, and many new vulnerability checks
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.5.211008143. This Acunetix release introduces support for the Brotli encoding and URL optional fields. The Node.js IAST AcuSensor has been updated to support numerous frameworks and the JAVA IAST AcuSensor can now…
Acunetix introduces pre-request scripts, log data retention options, and many new vulnerability checks
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.4.210816098. This Acunetix release introduces pre-request scripts that can be developed using the existing custom vulnerability scripts syntax, new log data retention options, and new vulnerability checks for Oracle E-Business Suite, Alibaba…
Acunetix introduces software composition analysis (SCA)
A new Acunetix update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.3.210615184. This Acunetix release introduces software composition analysis (SCA) functionality, allowing customers to detect vulnerable open-source libraries used by the web application. It also provides multiple updates, including a revised PCI DSS compliance…
Acunetix introduces Docker support, scan statistics, and the ability to send vulnerabilities to the AWS WAF
A new Acunetix update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.2.210503151. This Acunetix update introduces Docker support, a new Scan Statistics page that is shown for each scan, and the ability to send vulnerability information to the AWS WAF. Customers sending vulnerabilities to…
Acunetix introduces web asset discovery, NLTM Auth support for proxy auth, multi-engine updates, and new vulnerability checks
A new Acunetix update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.1.210316110. This Acunetix update introduces web asset discovery, allowing Acunetix users to easily identify web assets, which might have been forgotten and which belong to their organization. In addition, the Acunetix UI now…
Acunetix update introduces Node.js AcuSensor, target knowledge base, and multiple unrestricted access vulnerability checks
A new Acunetix update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 13.0.210129162. This Acunetix update introduces AcuSensor for Node.js and a feature called target knowledge base, which holds data from past scans and helps improve future scans. We also made fully qualified domain names…
Acunetix update introduces support for macOS Big Sur, support for ShadowRoot, improved CSRF token handling, and new vulnerability checks
A new Acunetix update has been released for Windows, Linux and macOS: 13.0.201217092. This Acunetix update introduces support for macOS Big Sur, ShadowRoot, and includes a substantial improvement in the handling of CSRF tokens. It also introduces the detection of web cache poisoning DoS, client-side…