Product Name
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor v4
Product Version
v4.1+
Date
12/1/2020
Problem
When you use the V4.1+ CIS-CAT GUI there are either pop-up or progress page errors;
Solution
Local Assessment;
If the hostname starts with a non-letter you will see an error in the Assessment progress page “Error(s) occurred validating the XML Configuration File”
The workarounds are to use a command line CIS-CAT Assessment. Or, rename the system so the hostname starts with a letter
Remote Assessment;
If the hostname starts with a non-letter you will see a pop-up error as shown below
In the configuration file, the session id= must start with a letter, no other symbol is valid.
In the sample error above the configuration file contains <session id="1test"> Editing that file and changing it to <session id="test1"> will allow the configuration file to load.
Note that this is a known bug and will be addressed in an upcoming release of CIS-CAT v4