{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":46248,"path":"security-management/vulnerability-response/vulnerabillity-states.md","title":"Vulnerability Response remediation task and vulnerable item states","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Vulnerability Response remediation task and vulnerable item states\n\nWith the Vulnerability Response application, you can use the state model to see the status of a remediation task, at any given time. Knowing how each state relates to and affects each other helps you to determine when and how to remediate your vulnerable items \\(VIs\\).\n\n## Remediation task states\n\nComplex use cases can sometimes result in a vulnerable item being in a different state than its remediation task. Understanding how states work helps to explain this behavior and can help with creating remediation tasks and creating or editing remediation task rules.\n\n**Note:** Starting with v23.0 of Vulnerability Response, the **Vulnerable Item State Approval** workflow is deprecated and replaced by the flow Vulnerability State Approval Change in the flow designer.\n\nRemediation tasks have many possible states as shown in the following diagram.\n\n\\[Omitted image \"VR-State-Flow-v10.3.png\"\\] Alt text: Vulnerability Response state flow diagram that describes the remediation task states as follows: Open, Under Investigation, Awaiting Implementation, In Review, Deferred or False Positive, Resolved, and Closed.\n\n**Note:** Each task form contains **Follow** and **Update** buttons that are standard for ServiceNow tasks.\n\nFor more information on remediation task states and actions you can perform on it at a respective state, see [Vulnerability Response remediation task states](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vr-rt-states.md).\n\nFor more information on detections, remediation task and vulnerable item states, see [Detections, remediation tasks, and vulnerable item states](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vr-detections-rt-vi-states.md).\n\nFor more information on remediation task and VI states, see [Remediation tasks and vulnerable item states](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vr-rt-vi-states.md).\n\nFor more information on remediation task state for VIs in multiple groups, see [Remediation task state for Vulnerable Items \\(VITs\\) in multiple groups](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vr-rt-state-for-multi-grp-vi.md).\n\n-   **[Vulnerable item age calculation and display](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vr-vi-calcVI-age.md)**  \nThe age of vulnerable items \\(VIs\\) is displayed in the Vulnerability Response application with more detail.\n\n**Parent Topic:**[Vulnerability Response](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vuln-landing-page.md)\n\n"}}