What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on TVM-08 Vulnerability Remediation Schedule?

Remediation timeframes by risk level for planned patching; Emergency patching procedure and records of its use; Change records for emergency fixes; Metrics on time to remediate against target.

What is the most common gap auditors find on TVM-08?

No emergency route, so critical fixes wait for the next release window

CSA CCM v4.1 · TVM - Threat & Vulnerability Management

`TVM-08` Vulnerability Remediation Schedule

The organisation sets up, operates and evaluates processes, procedures and technical measures, driven by the risks it has identified, that allow both planned and urgent responses when vulnerabilities are found.

Source: CSA CCM v4.1, TVM-08. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

easy

to go live

Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

Emergency patching procedure and records of its use · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
Change records for emergency fixes · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
Metrics on time to remediate against target · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Remediation timeframes by risk level for planned patching · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling. Scan schedule, findings and remediation age straight from the scanner; patch compliance from the patch console.

Common gaps auditors find

No emergency route, so critical fixes wait for the next release window
Timeframes not linked to risk
Emergency changes skip post-implementation review

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

Build my evidence sheet

TVM-07 Penetration Testing · TVM-09 Vulnerability Prioritization