In December 2022, we introduced OSV-Scanner, a device to allow builders to simply scan for vulnerabilities of their open supply dependencies. Along with the open supply neighborhood, we’ve continued to construct this device, including remediation options, in addition to increasing ecosystem assist to 11 programming languages and 20 bundle supervisor codecs.
Right now, we’re excited to launch OSV-SCALIBR (Software program Composition Evaluation LIBRary), an extensible library for SCA and file system scanning. OSV-SCALIBR combines Google’s inner vulnerability administration experience into one scanning library with vital new capabilities corresponding to:
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SCA for put in packages, standalone binaries, in addition to supply code
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OSes bundle scanning on Linux (COS, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and rather more), Home windows, and Mac
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Artifact and lockfile scanning in main language ecosystems (Go, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, and rather more)
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Vulnerability scanning instruments corresponding to weak credential detectors for Linux, Home windows, and Mac
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SBOM technology in SPDX and CycloneDX, the 2 hottest doc codecs
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Optimization for on-host scanning of useful resource constrained environments the place efficiency and low useful resource consumption is important
OSV-SCALIBR is now the first SCA engine used inside Google for reside hosts, code repos, and containers. It’s been used and examined extensively throughout many various merchandise and inner instruments to assist generate SBOMs, discover vulnerabilities, and assist shield our customers’ knowledge at Google scale.
We provide OSV-SCALIBR primarily as an open supply Go library right now, and we’re engaged on including its new capabilities into OSV-Scanner as the first CLI interface.
Utilizing OSV-SCALIBR as a library
All of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities are modularized into plugins for software program extraction and vulnerability detection that are quite simple to broaden.You should use OSV-SCALIBR as a library to:
1.Generate SBOMs from the construct artifacts and code repos in your reside host:
2. Scan a git repo for SBOMs:
Merely change “/” with the trail to your git repo. Additionally check out the varied language extractors to allow for code scanning.
3. Scan a distant container for SBOMs:
Substitute the scan config from the above code snippet with
4. Discover vulnerabilities in your filesystem or a distant container:
Extract the PURLs from the SCALIBR stock outcomes from the earlier steps:
And ship them to osv.dev, e.g.
See the utilization docs for extra particulars.
OSV-Scanner + OSV-SCALIBR
Customers in search of an out-of-the-box vulnerability scanning CLI device ought to take a look at OSV-Scanner, which already offers complete language bundle scanning capabilities utilizing a lot of the identical extraction as OSV-SCALIBR.
A few of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities should not but obtainable in OSV-Scanner, however we’re at the moment engaged on integrating OSV-SCALIBR extra deeply into OSV-Scanner. This can make an increasing number of of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities obtainable in OSV-Scanner within the subsequent few months, together with put in bundle extraction, weak credentials scanning, SBOM technology, and extra.
Look out quickly for an announcement of OSV-Scanner V2 with many of those new options obtainable. OSV-Scanner will change into the first frontend to the OSV-SCALIBR library for customers who require a CLI interface. Current customers of OSV-Scanner can proceed to make use of the device the identical approach, with backwards compatibility maintained for all present use instances.
For set up and utilization directions, take a look at OSV-Scanner’s documentation right here.
What’s subsequent
Along with making all of OSV-SCALIBR’s options obtainable in OSV-Scanner, we’re additionally engaged on extra new capabilities. This is a number of the issues you possibly can count on:
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Assist for extra OS and language ecosystems, each for normal extraction and for Guided Remediation
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Layer attribution and base picture identification for container scanning
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Reachability evaluation to cut back false constructive vulnerability matches
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Extra vulnerability and misconfiguration detectors for Home windows
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Extra weak credentials detectors
We hope that this library helps builders and organizations to safe their software program and encourages the open supply neighborhood to contribute again by sharing new plugins on high of OSV-SCALIBR.
You probably have any questions or if you need to contribute, do not hesitate to achieve out to us at osv-discuss@google.com or by posting a problem in our challenge tracker.
