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Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
Issues: Result list
Issue severity levels
Change issue severity
You can manually change the severity level for an issue, overriding its CVSS score.

Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.4.0
Getting started
This section provides a short tour of basic product features and procedures, including using the wizard to set up a scan.
Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Manual exploring
Manual exploring enables you to explore specific parts of your application, filling in fields and forms as you go. This can be a way of ensuring that particular areas of the site are covered, and that AppScan has the information needed to complete forms correctly.
Scanning
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
Data
Data view is populated with information about the structure of the site during the Explore stage of the scan.
Issues
Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
- Issues: Application tree
- Issues: Result list
  - Issue severity levels
    - Change issue severity
      You can manually change the severity level for an issue, overriding its CVSS score.
    - Apply CVSS 3.1 to legacy results
      How to update a scan run with an older CVSS version.
  - Issue state: Open or Noise
    Issues not relevant to your application can be designated as "Noise" and removed from the results.
  - Resending tests
  - Right-click menu
  - Filtering Security Issues in Result List
    You can filter the Result List for types of issues, or you can search for a specific issue.
  - Sorting the Result List
- Issues: Detail pane
- Report false positive test results
- Manual tests
- Non-vulnerables
Reports
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
Tools
This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
Integrations
This section describes integrations of other applications with AppScan Standard:
Best practices
This section contains some best practices and use cases for advanced users.
FAQ & Troubleshooting
CLI
This section describes the syntax and options available using the Command line interface.
References
Menus and toolbar summaries, and glossary

Change issue severity

You can manually change the severity level for an issue, overriding its CVSS score.

Change severity for a single issue

Procedure

In Issues view, you can change the severity assigned to any issue by right-clicking on it and selecting Severity > followed by the new value.

The issue is reclassified with the new severity. In the CVSS column for the issue, the CVSS score is replaced with "Manual" to indicate that the severity has been changed.

Default severity:

Manually updated severity:

Change severity for a group of issues

Procedure

In Issues view, at the top of the Issues table click Table settings > Group by, and then select a grouping method.
In the table, click on the issue and select Severity > followed by the new value.
All issues in the group are updated to the new severity.

The issue is reclassified with the new severity. In the CVSS column for the issue, the CVSS score is replaced with "Manual" to indicate that the severity has been changed.