The scanner reports several vulnerabilities, but when I review them manually, I can’t see a realistic way to exploit them.
In many cases, access controls or validation layers appear to block the attack entirely.
I’m unsure whether these findings represent real risk or just false positives. How should I decide what to fix?
Vulnerability scanners operate by detecting patterns that are known to be risky, not by understanding your application’s full execution flow. As a result, they often report issues that are technically present but mitigated by other controls in your system.
For example, a scanner might flag a potential injection point without understanding that the endpoint is only accessible to privileged users or that input is validated elsewhere. These findings still matter, because they indicate areas where risk could increase if assumptions change in the future.
The right approach is to assess whether the vulnerability is reachable, exploitable, and impactful in your environment. This requires human judgment rather than blind acceptance or dismissal of scanner output.