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Projects randomly stop collecting target information.

Tim | Last updated: Oct 22, 2018 06:54PM UTC

During class last week, every student at one point or another encountered an issue where Burp stopped collecting information in the target tab while the proxy history continued to collect information. Restarting Burp did not fix the issue. We were using 2.08b. I had a few students upgrade to 2.09b. The old projects still didn't work in the new version, and after restarting Burp with a new project, the students encountered the same issue, so it does not appear to be fixed in 2.09b. I had the entire class revert to 2.07b because that worked great a couple weeks ago. We had no further issues with 2.07b and were able to complete the 3 day class successfully. The only way I know to replicate the issue is just use the tool until it stops functioning properly. That's all we did and students encountered issues at different points during the training. We could not discern any specific action that led to the behavior.

Liam, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Oct 23, 2018 07:04AM UTC

Thanks for this report Tim. Do you have performance feedback enabled (User options > Misc > Performance feedback)? If so, could you provide us with the diagnostics (Help > Diagnostics) for the instance of Burp this has occurred with?

Burp User | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 02:22PM UTC

Hi there, We are facing the exact same issue (2.0.11b) with the target not tracking movements anymore ("show all" is selected). The site map remains empty while browsing the target but all queries appear in the proxy history. It was the first try with v2 so we simply reverted back to v1 builds. @op: thanks for the trick, I will try with 2.0.7b see if it the target tab works again.

Burp User | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 03:04PM UTC

Hi Again, So I tested with 2.0.7b, same issue: the site map under the target tab remains empty with "show all", while the proxy history captures all the traffic. Back to version 1.

Burp User | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 03:09PM UTC

@Liam: The event log shows only 2 info level entries "proxy service started on..." and "using socks proxy at....". p.s.: I see you are mentioning my firstname in the public forum. It seemed to me that this information was not public. Where can I edit my profile and remove these details?

Liam, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 03:14PM UTC

AF, I've removed the post displaying your first name. Additionally, I've sent you an email displaying the task execution engine paused message. This message is above the event log.

Liam, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 03:16PM UTC

A, we're going to add a warning to the Dashboard when individual tasks are paused and make the warnings more prominent. Unfortunately, we can't provide an ETA.

Burp User | Last updated: Nov 09, 2018 04:00PM UTC