In December 2022, we introduced OSV-Scanner, a instrument to allow builders to simply scan for vulnerabilities of their open supply dependencies. Along with the open supply group, we’ve continued to construct this instrument, including remediation options, in addition to increasing ecosystem help to 11 programming languages and 20 bundle supervisor codecs.
At this time, 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 inside vulnerability administration experience into one scanning library with important new capabilities resembling:
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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 far more), Home windows, and Mac
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Artifact and lockfile scanning in main language ecosystems (Go, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, and far more)
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Vulnerability scanning instruments resembling weak credential detectors for Linux, Home windows, and Mac
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SBOM era 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 essential
OSV-SCALIBR is now the first SCA engine used inside Google for dwell hosts, code repos, and containers. It’s been used and examined extensively throughout many various merchandise and inside instruments to assist generate SBOMs, discover vulnerabilities, and assist defend our customers’ information at Google scale.
We provide OSV-SCALIBR primarily as an open supply Go library at the moment, 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 increase.You should use OSV-SCALIBR as a library to:
1.Generate SBOMs from the construct artifacts and code repos in your dwell host:
2. Scan a git repo for SBOMs:
Merely exchange “/” with the trail to your git repo. Additionally check out the numerous language extractors to allow for code scanning.
3. Scan a distant container for SBOMs:
Exchange 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 searching for an out-of-the-box vulnerability scanning CLI instrument ought to take a look at OSV-Scanner, which already gives complete language bundle scanning capabilities utilizing a lot of the identical extraction as OSV-SCALIBR.
A few of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities will not be but obtainable in OSV-Scanner, however we’re at the moment engaged on integrating OSV-SCALIBR extra deeply into OSV-Scanner. It will make increasingly more of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities obtainable in OSV-Scanner within the subsequent few months, together with put in bundle extraction, weak credentials scanning, SBOM era, 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. Present customers of OSV-Scanner can proceed to make use of the instrument the identical means, 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 further new capabilities. Here is a few of the issues you’ll be able to anticipate:
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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 scale back false optimistic 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 group to contribute again by sharing new plugins on high of OSV-SCALIBR.
If in case you have any questions or if you want to contribute, do not hesitate to succeed in out to us at osv-discuss@google.com or by posting a problem in our situation tracker.
