Cloud Agent for Windows Release 6.1.3

Limited Customer Release

June 25, 2025

With this release, we are providing you with the following new features and enhancements for Cloud Agent for Windows.

Support for Regex in Application Path Exclusion

We introduced the support for wildcard characters as regular expressions (Regex values) while configuring the application path exclusions. Currently, only the special characters asterisk (*) and question mark (?) are supported as regex values.

Regex values are supported only for configuring the application path exclusions. The IP addresses and domain name exclusions do not support regex values.

Note the following important points while configuring the application path exclusion rule with regex values:

Regex patterns are applied to both the configured application names and alternate names. This may add some additional applications in the exclusion rules.
Do not use the wildcard character question mark (? ) to replace the dot (.) characters in the application name.
For example — If you want to exclude the multiple versions of app_name/a.exe the following are the valid and invalid usage:
Valid usage — app_na??/a.exe, app_??me/a.exe
Invalid usage — app_name/??exe (Here we replaced the a. with ??, hence it is invalid).
A maximum two question mark (?) characters can be used while configuring the application path exclusions. We recommend using the question mark (?) only if the application file or folder name varies by one or two characters. For other cases, you can use an asterisk (*).

Use Cases of Regex in Application Path Exclusion

The following table illustrates the uses cases for application path exclusion.

Use Case Scenario Regex Syntax

Exclude all the application files stored at same path Use the wildcard character — asterisk (*), to exclude all the application files that are stored in a specific folder.

Sample Syntax: system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\*.exe
Example
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25122.1415.3698.6812_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\*.exe

Exclude different versions of same applications You can use both the wildcard characters — the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?) to exclude different versions of same application. For example, to exclude all versions of app_name.1234567:

Sample Syntax:
Using the question mark (?) — system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.12345??\file_name.exe
OR
Using the asterisk (*) — system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.*\file_name.exe
OR
Using both the asterisk (*) and question mark (?) — system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.*\file_na??.exe
Example
Using the question mark (?) — C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25122.1415.3698.68??_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ms-teams.exe
OR
Using the asterisk (*) — C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_*\ms-teams.exe
OR
Using both the asterisk (*) and question mark (?) — C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_*\ms-tea??.exe

Use Case Scenario	Regex Syntax
Exclude all the application files stored at same path	Use the wildcard character — asterisk (), to exclude all the application files that are stored in a specific folder. Sample Syntax: `system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\.exe` Example `C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25122.1415.3698.6812_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\*.exe`
Exclude different versions of same applications	You can use both the wildcard characters — the asterisk () and the question mark (?) to exclude different versions of same application. For example, to exclude all versions of app_name.1234567: Sample Syntax: Using the question mark (?) — `system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.12345??\file_name.exe` OR Using the asterisk () — `system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.\file_name.exe` OR Using both the asterisk () and question mark (?) — `system_drive:\folder_1\folder_2\app_version.\file_na??.exe` Example Using the question mark (?) — `C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25122.1415.3698.68??_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ms-teams.exe` OR Using the asterisk () — `C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_\ms-teams.exe` OR Using both the asterisk () and question mark (?) — `C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_*\ms-tea??.exe`

We recommend using proper application file names and folder paths for better accuracy of exclusion rules.

Required application version

Patch Management 3.4.0
Vulnerability Management Detection and Response 2.1.0