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by cratermoon 1814 days ago
I agree about the false positive problem. Boy who cried wolf and all. I've also worked with security vendors who offer to run "free" vulnerability scans for you, and to absolutely nobody's surprise, they find vulnerabilities that just happen to be the ones that they can fix, if you buy what they are selling.

Still, your example is problematic. Beware the "internal-only network". Such a thing has mostly lost meaning today, and it was never much more than a picket fence anyway. "All devices must be capable of maintaining their security policy on an un-trusted network." https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/commandments_v1....

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The issue was "intentionally setup for testing purposes".
What testing purposes? How long was it up? Without knowing more, that doesn't eliminate it as a problem. There are plenty of cases where something set up "just for testing" ended up being the entry point for attackers.