Release: QCSA 1.2 

December 16, 2024 

What's New?

This release supports new features and enhancements in the following Linux Distributions.

  • Product Name:  QCSA-1.2  
  • Supported Linux Distribution: CentOS 8 | CentOS 9 | Oracle Linux 8 | Oracle Linux 9 | Ubuntu 24.04 | Debian 12.5

 QCSA supports deploying containerized scanners on Linux hosts with a 64-bit kernel version 3.10 or later.

New Features

With this release, we have introduced few features and logging improvements such as a regular dump of systems stats and metrics for better overload troubleshooting.

  • Support for operations using Podman in Rootful mode
  • Support for 64-bit-only mode (32-bit emulation disabled on host)

  • Support for TLS v1.3
  • Upgraded the base image to Oracle Linux 8.
  • Requirement for 32-bit emulation on hosts is removed.
    • This version supports binary execution for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

    • With ia32_emulation disabled, the containerized scanner operates in 64-bit only mode.

    • The default mode for the container scanner supports 32-bit emulation.

Limitations

The following features are not supported.

  • SCAP scan functionality  
  • Split networking  
  • Operation with Podman in Rootless mode  
  • Scanning of the following target technologies in 64-bit only mode:  
    • MySQL Database
    • MongoDB Database
    • CyberArk PIM vault support
    • Password auditing support for Windows