In December 2022, we launched the open supply OSV-Scanner software, and earlier this yr, we open sourced OSV-SCALIBR. OSV-Scanner and OSV-SCALIBR, along with OSV.dev are elements of an open platform for managing vulnerability metadata and enabling easy and correct matching and remediation of recognized vulnerabilities. Our objective is to simplify and streamline vulnerability administration for builders and safety groups alike.
Right now, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of OSV-Scanner V2.0.0, following the announcement of the beta model. This V2 launch builds upon the muse we laid with OSV-SCALIBR and provides vital new capabilities to OSV-Scanner, making it a complete vulnerability scanner and remediation software with broad assist for codecs and ecosystems.
What’s new
Enhanced Dependency Extraction with OSV-SCALIBR
This launch represents the primary main integration of OSV-SCALIBR options into OSV-Scanner, which is now the official command-line code and container scanning software for the OSV-SCALIBR library. This integration additionally expanded our assist for the sorts of dependencies we are able to extract from initiatives and containers:
Supply manifests and lockfiles:
Artifacts:
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Node modules
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Python wheels
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Java uber jars
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Go binaries
Layer and base image-aware container scanning
Beforehand, OSV-Scanner targeted on scanning of supply repositories and language package deal manifests and lockfiles. OSV-Scanner V2 provides assist for complete, layer-aware scanning for Debian, Ubuntu, and Alpine container pictures. OSV-Scanner can now analyze container pictures to offer:
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Layers the place a package deal was first launched
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Layer historical past and instructions
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Base pictures the picture is predicated on (leveraging a new experimental API offered by deps.dev).
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OS/Distro the container is operating on
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Filtering of vulnerabilities which might be unlikely to affect your container picture
This layer evaluation at the moment helps the next OSes and languages:
Distro Assist:
Language Artifacts Assist:
Interactive HTML output
Presenting vulnerability scan data in a transparent and actionable method is tough, significantly within the context of container scanning. To deal with this, we constructed a brand new interactive native HTML output format. This gives extra interactivity and knowledge in comparison with terminal solely outputs, together with:
And moreover for container picture scanning:
Illustration of HTML output for container picture scanning
Guided remediation for Maven pom.xml
Final yr we launched a characteristic referred to as guided remediation for npm, which streamlines vulnerability administration by intelligently suggesting prioritized, focused upgrades and providing versatile methods. This finally maximizes safety enhancements whereas minimizing disruption. We’ve now expanded this characteristic to Java via assist for Maven pom.xml.
With guided remediation assist for Maven, you may remediate vulnerabilities in each direct and transitive dependencies via direct model updates or overriding variations via dependency administration.
We’ve launched a couple of new issues for our Maven assist:
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A brand new remediation technique override.
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Assist for studying and writing pom.xml information, together with writing modifications to native dad or mum pom information. We leverage OSV-Scalibr for Maven transitive dependency extraction.
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A personal registry may be specified to fetch Maven metadata.
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A brand new experimental subcommend to replace all of your dependencies in pom.xml to the most recent model.
We additionally launched machine readable output for guided remediation that makes it simpler to combine guided remediation into your workflow.
What’s subsequent?
We’ve thrilling plans for the rest of the yr, together with:
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Continued OSV-SCALIBR Convergence: We are going to proceed to converge OSV-Scanner and OSV-SCALIBR to carry OSV-SCALIBR’s performance to OSV-Scanner’s CLI interface.
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Expanded Ecosystem Assist: We’ll increase the variety of ecosystems we assist throughout all of the options at the moment in OSV-Scanner, together with extra languages for guided remediation, OS advisories for container scanning, and extra basic lockfile assist for supply code scanning.
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Full Filesystem Accountability for Containers: One other objective of osv-scanner is to provide the means to know and account for each single file in your container picture, together with sideloaded binaries downloaded from the web.
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Reachability Evaluation: We’re engaged on integrating reachability evaluation to offer deeper insights into the potential affect of vulnerabilities.
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VEX Assist: We’re planning so as to add assist for Vulnerability Change (VEX) to facilitate higher communication and collaboration round vulnerability data.
Attempt OSV-Scanner V2
You’ll be able to attempt V2.0.0 and contribute to its ongoing improvement by trying out OSV-Scanner or the OSV-SCALIBR repository. We welcome your suggestions and contributions as we proceed to enhance the platform and make vulnerability administration simpler for everybody.
In case you have any questions or if you need to contribute, do not hesitate to achieve out to us at osv-discuss@google.com, or put up a problem in our difficulty tracker.
