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 package deal supervisor codecs.
Immediately, 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 important new capabilities equivalent to:
SCA for put in packages, standalone binaries, in addition to supply code
OSes package deal scanning on Linux (COS, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and far more), Home windows, and Mac
Artifact and lockfile scanning in main language ecosystems (Go, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, and far more)
Vulnerability scanning instruments equivalent to weak credential detectors for Linux, Home windows, and Mac
SBOM era in SPDX and CycloneDX, the 2 hottest doc codecs
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 dwell hosts, code repos, and containers. It’s been used and examined extensively throughout many alternative 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 in the present day, 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 develop.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 substitute “/” 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 on the lookout for an out-of-the-box vulnerability scanning CLI instrument ought to take a look at OSV-Scanner, which already supplies complete language package deal scanning capabilities utilizing a lot of the identical extraction as OSV-SCALIBR.
A few of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities are usually not but accessible in OSV-Scanner, however we’re at present engaged on integrating OSV-SCALIBR extra deeply into OSV-Scanner. This can make increasingly more of OSV-SCALIBR’s capabilities accessible in OSV-Scanner within the subsequent few months, together with put in package deal extraction, weak credentials scanning, SBOM era, and extra.
Look out quickly for an announcement of OSV-Scanner V2 with many of those new options accessible. OSV-Scanner will develop 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 instrument the identical approach, with backwards compatibility maintained for all present use circumstances.
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 accessible in OSV-Scanner, we’re additionally engaged on further new capabilities. Here is among the issues you may count on:
Help for extra OS and language ecosystems, each for normal extraction and for Guided Remediation
Layer attribution and base picture identification for container scanning
Reachability evaluation to scale back false optimistic vulnerability matches
Extra vulnerability and misconfiguration detectors for Home windows
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.
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 difficulty tracker.
