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New extension-driven passive audit task being created automatically

Manuel | Last updated: Feb 23, 2019 09:58PM UTC

I noticed that with v2.0.17beta, while performing an audit, for example "Audit coverage - Thorough", a new "Extension driven passive audit" task is created and started automatically without interaction and it mostly sit there with 0 requests and 0 errors. This is how the task looks like: https://i.imgur.com/pHSolj6.png

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Feb 25, 2019 08:09AM UTC

One of your extensions must have initiated a passive scan. Quite a lot do this. You can see what has been passive scanned by clicking "View details" then looking under "Audit items". The number of requests is the number that the task has issued, so it's quite normal for passive scan to be on zero.

Burp User | Last updated: Feb 25, 2019 08:01PM UTC