To date, I've used OpenSCAP to check the configuration of Unix operating systems against government baselines.
But I assume OpenSCAP can consume any SCAP content including daily CVE feeds? I have not tried that yet. And superficial searching did not reveal any obvious documentation.
Does anyone know of a good example that would get a person started with using OpenSCAP to consume CVE feeds? Any recommendations of freely available feeds?
Thanks!
Greg Elin
I separately emailed Martin this same question. He was kind enough to send me a link so sharing here.
The below link provides an example of using OpenSCAP to consume RedHat data on vulnerabilities in RedHat Linux.
http://www.open-scap.org/page/Documentation#How_to_run_vulnerability_scan_on...
This may seem terribly obvious to experienced Scappers, but it is only obvious once you see it. I know this because some colleagues some colleagues of mine need to do a "vulnerability scan" for a government client and were looking at Nessus because they thought OpenSCAP was just for checking configuration. It took me a bit, too, to make the connection.
Looking for more examples and documentation as this would be a useful thread for us newbies...
Greg Elin
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Greg Elin gregelin@gitmachines.com wrote:
To date, I've used OpenSCAP to check the configuration of Unix operating systems against government baselines.
But I assume OpenSCAP can consume any SCAP content including daily CVE feeds? I have not tried that yet. And superficial searching did not reveal any obvious documentation.
Does anyone know of a good example that would get a person started with using OpenSCAP to consume CVE feeds? Any recommendations of freely available feeds?
Thanks!
Greg Elin
Hi Greg,
Here is a document that I put together earlier last year.
http://maybeusefultoday.blogspot.com/2014/11/automated-rhel-6-stig-scanning-... http://maybeusefultoday.blogspot.com/2014/11/automated-rhel-6-stig-scanning-with.html
Chris
On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Greg Elin gregelin@gitmachines.com wrote:
I separately emailed Martin this same question. He was kind enough to send me a link so sharing here.
The below link provides an example of using OpenSCAP to consume RedHat data on vulnerabilities in RedHat Linux.
http://www.open-scap.org/page/Documentation#How_to_run_vulnerability_scan_on... http://www.open-scap.org/page/Documentation#How_to_run_vulnerability_scan_on_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
This may seem terribly obvious to experienced Scappers, but it is only obvious once you see it. I know this because some colleagues some colleagues of mine need to do a "vulnerability scan" for a government client and were looking at Nessus because they thought OpenSCAP was just for checking configuration. It took me a bit, too, to make the connection.
Looking for more examples and documentation as this would be a useful thread for us newbies...
Greg Elin
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Greg Elin <gregelin@gitmachines.com mailto:gregelin@gitmachines.com> wrote: To date, I've used OpenSCAP to check the configuration of Unix operating systems against government baselines.
But I assume OpenSCAP can consume any SCAP content including daily CVE feeds? I have not tried that yet. And superficial searching did not reveal any obvious documentation.
Does anyone know of a good example that would get a person started with using OpenSCAP to consume CVE feeds? Any recommendations of freely available feeds?
Thanks!
Greg Elin
-- SCAP Security Guide mailing list scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/
Thanks for the pointers, hadn't even crossed my mind that you could do this, but like you said, seems quite obvious once you think about it.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Chris Kachigian <chris.kachigian@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Greg,
Here is a document that I put together earlier last year.
http://maybeusefultoday.blogspot.com/2014/11/automated-rhel-6-stig-scanning-...
Chris
On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Greg Elin gregelin@gitmachines.com wrote:
I separately emailed Martin this same question. He was kind enough to send me a link so sharing here.
The below link provides an example of using OpenSCAP to consume RedHat data on vulnerabilities in RedHat Linux.
http://www.open-scap.org/page/Documentation#How_to_run_vulnerability_scan_on...
This may seem terribly obvious to experienced Scappers, but it is only obvious once you see it. I know this because some colleagues some colleagues of mine need to do a "vulnerability scan" for a government client and were looking at Nessus because they thought OpenSCAP was just for checking configuration. It took me a bit, too, to make the connection.
Looking for more examples and documentation as this would be a useful thread for us newbies...
Greg Elin
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Greg Elin gregelin@gitmachines.com wrote:
To date, I've used OpenSCAP to check the configuration of Unix operating systems against government baselines.
But I assume OpenSCAP can consume any SCAP content including daily CVE feeds? I have not tried that yet. And superficial searching did not reveal any obvious documentation.
Does anyone know of a good example that would get a person started with using OpenSCAP to consume CVE feeds? Any recommendations of freely available feeds?
Thanks!
Greg Elin
-- SCAP Security Guide mailing list scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/
-- SCAP Security Guide mailing list scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/
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