CIS-CAT Pro Assessor Error: "The selected benchmark does not match the target platform"
Product Name
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor®
Product Version
v4.x.x+
Date
Apr 23, 2024
Problem
I am not able to execute CIS-CAT Pro Assessor® on a desired OS. While executing the script or GUI, the system gives the following error message: “The following platform mismatches were found"
All results in the GUI, logs, and HTML report are marked “Not Applicable" or “0%"
Solution
The best way to allow the assessment to advance is to skip the platform check performed by CIS-CAT.
To Ignore a Platform Mismatch using the command line, 1 time:
Add the option -D ignore.platform.mismatch=true to the command line for the specific assessment you are running.
To Ignore a Platform Mismatch for all subsequent CIS-CAT Pro assessments:
NOTE: By making this change to the assessor-cli.properties file you will skip all Platform Applicability checks for all scans. This can lead to incorrect scoring if the OS and the Benchmark do not in fact match. You can always switch this back by changing the true back to false when scanning other systems.
Go to the
assessor-cli.propertiesfile under[path your Assessor dir.]/config/assessor-cli.properties]Open the
assessor-cli.propertiesfile in a text editorOn line 76 (or so) set "ignore platform mismatch" to equal "true"
ignore.platform.mismatch=trueSave the changes made to the
assessor-cli.propertiesfile and closeRun the assessment again, it will pull the newly saved changes from
assessor-cli.propertiesfile and the Assessment should now run as anticipated.
Keywords; Platform mismatch applicability check
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