A new release of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform (VM, PC Release 10.36.1), which is released in November 2025, includes updates to an existing API. This API notification highlights recently released changes, enabling you to identify use cases that can benefit from the updated APIs.

What’s New?

Host List Detection API: Identify Highest Contributing CVE and Associated Risk Factors

GET, POST  /api/5.0/fo/asset/host/vm/detection/

DTD or XSD changes: No

With this feature, you can now identify the highest contributing CVE under the QDS_FACTORS tag to improve the prioritization and remediation strategies. The Qualys Detection Score (QDS) factor includes the risk factors associated with each detection record in the response using the existing show_qds_factors parameter. The highest contributing factor is displayed under the QDS_FACTORS tag in the response.

EOS Message Applicable Only to XML Response Format

With this release, End-of-Service (EOS) messaging has been added to VM APIs wherever versioning is involved. Currently, the EOS message is shown only in XML response format.