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

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Fri Nov 13 17:47:33 UTC 2015



On 11/12/15 11:58 PM, Jerome Athias wrote:
> For "master download" of NVD:
>
> https://nvd.nist.gov/download.aspx

Nice - thanks!

Looks like the CVE content is posted with mappings to vendor 
announcements (RHSA, Cisco SA). e.g.:
http://pastebin.com/RkpdDFXb

I believe you'll need to ping vendors for associated OVAL content.


> 2015-11-13 1:15 GMT+03:00 Shawn Wells <shawn at redhat.com>:
>>
>> 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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