Using OpenSCAP with CVE feeds for daily scanning

Jeremiah Jahn jeremiah at goodinassociates.com
Tue Mar 24 13:02:07 UTC 2015


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 at 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-with.html
>
> Chris
>
> On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Greg Elin <gregelin at 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_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 at 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​
>>
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