What This Category of Data Looks Like
Data for vulnerability scanning services originates from vulnerability scanners, asset inventories, CVE databases, and patch bulletins. Update frequency is weekly or monthly. Daily produced documents include scanning plans, vulnerability lists, rectification work orders, and rescan reports. Fields cover asset identifiers, vulnerability IDs, risk levels, repair progress, rescan results, and more. The data structure uses primarily standardized structured fields to support subsequent automated circulation and cross-system synchronization.
Constraints Imposed on HTTP Interfaces and External Systems
Data comes from multiple sources with fixed update cycles. HTTP interfaces must support multi-dimensional parameter validation and standardized response formats. This ensures fields from different data sources can be uniformly identified. Daily documents have clear, defined fields. Interface requests and responses must match the field structure of vulnerability lists and rectification work orders. This prevents field compatibility issues. The most time-consuming steps include asset range confirmation, false positive elimination, and rescan verification. These steps require interfaces to support batch asset range input, false positive tag return, and scheduled synchronization of rescan results. This alignment matches weekly or monthly update cycles. High-severity vulnerabilities carry significant exposure risks. Interfaces must include appropriate failure handling mechanisms to reduce data loss risks.
Configuration Settings
| Configuration Item | Recommended Setting | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
Authorization | Configure Bearer-type tokens, set validity period per external system requirements | Complies with general API authentication specifications, avoids authentication failures, and adapts to FastGPT v4.17.0 interface requirements |
variables | Pass asset range and risk level filter parameters | Adapts to custom requirements for different scanning tasks, reduces operational costs from repeated configuration |
responseData | Map vulnerability ID, asset IP, and repair status fields | Aligns with standardized fields of vulnerability lists and rectification work orders, facilitates automatic import to external systems |
| Interface timeout setting | 600 seconds | Covers response duration for batch asset scans, prevents scan task failure from mid-process interruptions |
| Retry policy configuration | 2 retries, 30-second interval | Addresses temporary network fluctuations, reduces probability of scan interruptions from single call failures |
| Synchronization trigger configuration | Trigger per weekly or monthly update cycle | Matches update frequency of vulnerability scanning services, avoids excessive calls to external system interfaces |
Three Common Misconfigurations
- Phenomenon: Interface calls return 401 Unauthorized status code, and the interface is marked as unavailable. Cause: Authentication parameters are not configured correctly, or the token validity period exceeds the set range. This matches real-world scenarios of invalid tokens.
- Phenomenon: Passed global filter parameters do not take effect, and the scan range does not match expectations. Cause: The
variablesparameter is not bound correctly, and global variables are not properly passed to the scanning engine's execution logic. - Phenomenon: Rescan results cannot be automatically synchronized to rectification work orders, and response fields are empty. Cause: Field mapping for
responseDatais not configured correctly, causing the interface return structure to not match the receiving format of the target system.
How to Verify Correct Configuration
- Run a test scan, check if the interface response content includes expected vulnerability fields, and verify that the
responseDatamapping is correct. - Call the authentication interface to verify that the
Authorizationconfiguration passes external system validation, and confirm the validity and legality of the token. - Pass test global variable parameters, check if the scan task executes per the set range, and confirm that the
variablesconfiguration takes effect. - Simulate a temporary network fluctuation scenario, check if the interface triggers the retry mechanism, and confirm that the retry policy configuration matches expectations.
The values provided are common starting points and should be measured against the reader's own samples.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-10-19.