This release includes 3 security fixes for security teams reviewing exposed deployments.
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ReleasePort's take
Moderate signalThe release enforces tenant isolation for role updates and trims the attack surface by dropping an unused libxml2 package, while a configuration flag rename requires code adjustments.
Why it matters: Limits crossβtenant role assignment changes; removes Debian libxml2 (CVEβ2026β13221 exception narrowed to Perlβ―5.36). Update UI_SENTRY_ENABLE β UI_SENTRY_ENABLED before upgrade.
Summary
AI summaryBroad release touches π Added, STACKIT, π Changed, and π Fixed.
Changes in this release
| Type | Severity | Summary | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security | Critical |
Limits user role updates to active tenant, preventing crossβtenant assignment changes. Limits user role updates to active tenant, preventing crossβtenant assignment changes. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Security | High |
Removes unused Debian libxml2 package and narrows CVE-2026-13221 Trivy exception to unaffected Perl 5.36 packages. Removes unused Debian libxml2 package and narrows CVE-2026-13221 Trivy exception to unaffected Perl 5.36 packages. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Breaking | High |
Renames UI integration enable flags to past tense (e.g., UI_SENTRY_ENABLE β UI_SENTRY_ENABLED). Renames UI integration enable flags to past tense (e.g., UI_SENTRY_ENABLE β UI_SENTRY_ENABLED). Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Feature | Medium |
Adds CrossβProvider Compliance tab aggregating multiβcloud scan results into a single framework view (CIS, CSA CCM, DORA). Adds CrossβProvider Compliance tab aggregating multiβcloud scan results into a single framework view (CIS, CSA CCM, DORA). Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Feature | Medium |
Adds E2E Networks provider with 27 checks covering compute, networking, storage, and databases. Adds E2E Networks provider with 27 checks covering compute, networking, storage, and databases. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes Metronome billing failure when PostHog is enabled by updating flag reference. Fixes Metronome billing failure when PostHog is enabled by updating flag reference. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes Lighthouse AI overview entry to start a new remediation conversation and restore navigation mode. Fixes Lighthouse AI overview entry to start a new remediation conversation and restore navigation mode. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes `rls_transaction` to fallback directly to primary DB on readβreplica failures, reducing query crashes. Fixes `rls_transaction` to fallback directly to primary DB on readβreplica failures, reducing query crashes. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes RBAC permission gates to combine permissions from all user roles in the active tenant. Fixes RBAC permission gates to combine permissions from all user roles in the active tenant. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes `attack-paths-cleanup-stale-scans` to retry worker pings and check recent scan activity before failing. Fixes `attack-paths-cleanup-stale-scans` to retry worker pings and check recent scan activity before failing. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high |
β |
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β¨ New features to highlight in this version
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π·οΈ New product names
The Prowler family has grown, and the names now say what each product is. Same products, clearer names:
Prowler products:
- Prowler Cloud β the managed cloud security platform operated by the Prowler team.
- Prowler Private Cloud (formerly Prowler Enterprise) β the self-hosted deployment of Prowler Cloud in your own environment.
- Prowler Hub β the free public library of versioned checks, cloud service artifacts, and compliance frameworks.
- Prowler Lighthouse AI β The Agentic Cloud Defender in Prowler Cloud and Prowler Private Cloud.
- Prowler MCP β the MCP server that connects AI assistants and agents to Prowler, including the IDE plugins.
Open source projects:
- Prowler CLI β the command-line scanner for all supported providers.
- Prowler Local Server (formerly Prowler App) β the self-hosted web application and API to run scans, visualize findings, and manage providers.
- Prowler Local Dashboard β the web dashboard for visualizing Prowler CLI scan results, distributed with the CLI.
- Prowler SDK β the Python library behind Prowler CLI and Prowler Local Server.
See the full family in the Prowler products documentation.
π§ Cross-Provider Compliance
[!NOTE]
This feature is available exclusively in Prowler Cloud and Prowler Private Cloud with a subscription.
One framework, every cloud, a single answer. The new Cross-provider tab in Compliance takes the most recent completed scan of every compatible provider and rolls them up into a single compliance posture per framework, with a per-provider breakdown and a combined executive PDF report. Requirement status follows strict precedence (FAIL > PASS > MANUAL), so one failing provider is enough to flag a requirement across your whole estate.
Three universal frameworks support it today:
- CIS Controls 8.1 β AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, GitHub, Google Workspace, Okta, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare, MongoDB Atlas, OpenStack, and Vercel.
- CSA CCM 4.0 β AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
- DORA 2022/2554 β AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Cloudflare.
Filter by provider type, account, or provider group, drill into each framework's requirements, and export the combined PDF.
Read more in our Cross-Provider Compliance documentation.
π’ New Provider β E2E Networks
Prowler now scans E2E Networks, with 27 checks spanning compute nodes, networking, security groups, load balancers, block and file storage, and managed databases. Thanks to @deepak7093 for their 1st provider in Prowler!
Available in the Prowler CLI:
export E2E_NETWORKS_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export E2E_NETWORKS_AUTH_TOKEN="your-auth-token"
export E2E_NETWORKS_PROJECT_ID="your-project-id"
prowler e2enetworks
Read more in our E2E Networks documentation.
Explore all E2E Networks checks at Prowler Hub.
π Security
User role relationship updates in the API are now limited to the active tenant, preserving the role assignments the same user holds in other tenants.
π Checks
AWS
ec2_ami_account_block_public_accessβ verifies AMI block public access is enabled at the account level in each Region, so AMIs cannot be shared publicly. Thanks to @goutham-hari!datapipeline_pipeline_no_secrets_in_definitionβ scans Data Pipeline object fields, parameter objects, and parameter values for hardcoded secrets with Kingfisher. Thanks to @YinkaMetrics!elbv2_listener_pqc_tls_enabledβ verifies ELBv2 HTTPS/TLS listeners use post-quantum TLS security policies with TLS 1.2 or higher, helping reduce harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure.amplify_app_no_secrets_in_environmentβ scans Amplify app and branch environment variables and build settings (buildSpec) for hardcoded secrets with Kingfisher. Thanks to @Deep070203!
Read more in our AWS documentation.
Explore all AWS checks at Prowler Hub.
Azure
app_function_ensure_http_is_redirected_to_httpsβ verifies that Function Apps enforce HTTPS-only traffic. Thanks to @amandalal007!
Read more in our Azure documentation.
Explore all Azure checks at Prowler Hub.
Kubernetes
core_minimize_hostpath_volume_mountsβ detects Pods that usehostPathvolumes. Thanks to @0xTaoZ!core_readonly_root_filesystem_enabledβ verifies that every container in each Pod explicitly setsreadOnlyRootFilesystem: truein its security context. Thanks to @Weedle02!
Read more in our Kubernetes documentation.
Explore all Kubernetes checks at Prowler Hub.
STACKIT
iaas_server_public_ip_attachedβ flags IaaS servers that have a public IP address directly attached to a network interface. Thanks to @johannes-engler-mw!
Read more in our STACKIT documentation.
Explore all STACKIT checks at Prowler Hub.
π External Contributors
Thank you to our community contributors for this release!
- @deepak7093 β New E2E Networks provider: 27 checks across compute nodes, networking, security groups, load balancers, block/file storage, and managed databases (#11654)
- @goutham-hari β AWS
ec2_ami_account_block_public_accesscheck (#11828) - @YinkaMetrics β AWS
datapipeline_pipeline_no_secrets_in_definitioncheck (#11821) - @amandalal007 β Azure
app_function_ensure_http_is_redirected_to_httpscheck (#11929) - @0xTaoZ β Kubernetes
core_minimize_hostpath_volume_mountscheck (#11837) - @Weedle02 β Kubernetes
core_readonly_root_filesystem_enabledcheck (#11835) - @johannes-engler-mw β STACKIT
iaas_server_public_ip_attachedcheck (#11549) - @janderik β Trailing newlines added to compliance, region, and fixture data files for POSIX compliance (#11765)
- @Deep070203 β AWS
amplify_app_no_secrets_in_environmentcheck (#11825)
UI
π Added
- Dynamically registered providers are now listed, filtered, and rendered across the UI, using a generic icon and humanized label when no bespoke assets exist, a "Custom" badge, and read-only handling for non-configurable providers (#11869)
- Prowler Local Server branding and contextual Prowler Cloud upgrade prompts across navigation, scans, providers, compliance, findings, alerts, and Lighthouse AI (#11982)
π Changed
- UI components migrated from HeroUI to shared shadcn primitives (#11532)
- UI integration enable flags renamed to past tense β
UI_SENTRY_ENABLEβUI_SENTRY_ENABLED,UI_GOOGLE_TAG_MANAGER_ENABLEβUI_GOOGLE_TAG_MANAGER_ENABLED,UI_POSTHOG_ENABLEβUI_POSTHOG_ENABLED; deployments that set the former names must update them (#11917)
π Fixed
- Metronome billing failing to start when PostHog was enabled, caused by a stale reference to the renamed UI_POSTHOG_ENABLED flag (#11938)
- Lighthouse AI overview entry now starts a new remediation conversation, and returning to Overview restores app navigation mode (#11955)
API
π Fixed
rls_transactionnow falls back directly to the primary DB for connection-level mid-query read replica failures viaexecute_wrapper, reducing non-streaming read crashes during replica recovery (#10379)- RBAC permission gates now combine permissions from every role assigned to a user in the active tenant (#11979)
attack-paths-cleanup-stale-scansnow retries worker pings and checks recent scan activity before failing scans and removing temporary databases (#11986)
π Security
- User role relationship updates are limited to the active tenant to preserve role assignments in other tenants (#11903)
- Container image removes the unused Debian
libxml2runtime package and scopes theCVE-2026-13221Trivy exception to unaffected Perl 5.36 packages (#11991)
SDK
π Added
elbv2_listener_pqc_tls_enabledcheck for AWS provider, verifying that ELBv2 listeners use post-quantum TLS policies (#11254)iaas_server_public_ip_attachedcheck for STACKIT provider, flagging IaaS servers that have a public IP address directly attached to a network interface (#11549)- Changelog fragment workflow for SDK, API, UI, and MCP Server releases, including PR attribution, fragment validation, release compilation, and preserved section ordering (#11572)
- E2E Networks provider with 27 checks across compute nodes, networking, security groups, load balancers, block/file storage, and managed databases (#11654)
datapipeline_pipeline_no_secrets_in_definitioncheck for AWS provider, scanning Data Pipeline object fields, parameter objects, and parameter values for hardcoded secrets with Kingfisher (#11821)amplify_app_no_secrets_in_environmentcheck for AWS provider, scanning Amplify app and branch environment variables and build settings for hardcoded secrets (#11825)ec2_ami_account_block_public_accesscheck for AWS provider, verifying AMI block public access is enabled at the account level in each Region so AMIs cannot be shared publicly (#11828)core_readonly_root_filesystem_enabledcheck for Kubernetes provider, verifying that every container in each Pod explicitly setsreadOnlyRootFilesystem: truein its security context (#11835)core_minimize_hostpath_volume_mountscheck for Kubernetes provider, detecting Pods that usehostPathvolumes (#11837)app_function_ensure_http_is_redirected_to_httpscheck for Azure provider, verifying that Function Apps enforce HTTPS-only traffic (#11929)
π Changed
- Missing trailing newlines to compliance, region, and fixture data files for POSIX compliance (#11765)
- Oracle Cloud API key authentication now uses an internal bootstrap region when no explicit scan region filter is provided (#11853)
- Redesign the local dashboard sidebar and informational pages (#11972)
Breaking Changes
- UI integration enable flags renamed: UI_SENTRY_ENABLE β UI_SENTRY_ENABLED, UI_GOOGLE_TAG_MANAGER_ENABLE β UI_GOOGLE_TAG_MANAGER_ENABLED, UI_POSTHOG_ENABLE β UI_POSTHOG_ENABLED
Security Fixes
- User role relationship updates in the API are now limited to the active tenant.
- Container image removes unused Debian libxml2 package and scopes CVEβ2026β13221 Trivy exception to unaffected PerlΒ 5.36 packages.
- CVE-2026-13221
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