Censys ASM Adds JavaScript Rendering, Redirect Tracking and Web Risk Detection
Summary
Censys says ASM now renders pages and evaluates their DOM, maps web technologies, adds more than 400 web-specific CVE detections, captures screenshots, and follows full redirect chains to improve visibility into customers’ external web assets.
Key points
- Censys ASM now loads web pages fully, executes JavaScript, and evaluates the resulting DOM.
- The update maps JavaScript libraries, web technologies, and plugins across a customer’s environment and flags identified risks.
- Censys says it added more than 400 web-specific CVE detections.
- The service automatically captures a screenshot of each web entity within 24 hours of discovery.
- ASM follows URL redirect chains to show the final destination, including when it leads to a hijacked domain or phishing site.
- Censys says continuous scanning keeps the web-asset inventory and identified vulnerabilities up to date.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Censys announced deeper web scanning capabilities in Censys ASM, including full page rendering and DOM evaluation, web technology and vulnerability mapping, screenshots, and redirect-chain tracing.
- Impact
- The update is intended to improve visibility into exposed web assets, vulnerable libraries and plugins, defaced or compromised pages, exposed admin panels, unauthorized login forms, and redirect destinations, supporting faster identification and remediation. The article reports no specific victim, breach, or confirmed attack.