Using OpenSCAP with CVE feeds for daily scanning

[Greg Elin]

​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​

[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  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​

[Chris Kachigian]

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  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 <[e-mail] > 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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[Jeremiah Jahn]

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 <[e-mail]
> 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  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 
> 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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