could anyone please let me know how to obtain a vulnerability only (CVE) list output

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Thu Nov 12 22:15:22 UTC 2015



On 11/10/15 3:04 PM, Su Zhang wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
> I looked into the doc and found the following description
>
> "The oscap utility maps Red Hat Security Advisories to CVE identifiers 
> that are linked to the National Vulnerability Database and reports 
> which security advisories are not applied."
>
> However, does Red Hat security advisories capture all CVEs? Or it only 
> capture its own product related CVEs? If it does not have a 
> comprehensive CVEs, then do you know how to incorporate the entire NVD 
> vulnerability data?

Definitely a good question, and one we may not be documenting in the 
best way.

The Red Hat CVE content reflects authoritative content for *Red Hat* 
technologies. For example, RHEL6 CVE data would include "core RHEL," but 
also packages that we ship/support, such as our release of Apache 
included in Enterprise Linux.

For third party vendors (e.g. MongoDB, Websphere) you'd have to get 
CVE/OVAL data directly from them. I'm not aware of a "master download" 
of NVD, however they do point you to various vendor content:
https://oval.mitre.org/repository/about/other_repositories.html

CIS recently took over DHS' OVAL repository from MITRE, and it contains 
many CVE definitions for Unix/Linux/Windows/VMWare:
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/download

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