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.
At this time, 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 important new capabilities to OSV-Scanner, making it a complete vulnerability scanner and remediation software with broad assist for codecs and ecosystems.Â
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 will extract from initiatives and containers:
Supply manifests and lockfiles:
Artifacts:
Node modules
Python wheels
Java uber jars
Go binaries
Layer and base image-aware container scanning
Beforehand, OSV-Scanner centered on scanning of supply repositories and language bundle manifests and lockfiles. OSV-Scanner V2 provides assist for complete, layer-aware scanning for Debian, Ubuntu, and Alpine container photographs. OSV-Scanner can now analyze container photographs to offer:
Layers the place a bundle was first launched
Layer historical past and instructions
Base photographs the picture is predicated on (leveraging a new experimental API offered by deps.dev).
OS/Distro the container is working on
Filtering of vulnerabilities which might be unlikely to impression your container picture
This layer evaluation at the moment helps the next OSes and languages:
Distro Help:
Language Artifacts Help:
Interactive HTML output
Presenting vulnerability scan data in a transparent and actionable method is tough, significantly within the context of container scanning. To handle this, we constructed a brand new interactive native HTML output format. This gives extra interactivity and data 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 function referred to as guided remediation for npm, which streamlines vulnerability administration by intelligently suggesting prioritized, focused upgrades and providing versatile methods. This in the end maximizes safety enhancements whereas minimizing disruption. We’ve now expanded this function to Java by assist for Maven pom.xml.
With guided remediation assist for Maven, you possibly can remediate vulnerabilities in each direct and transitive dependencies by direct model updates or overriding variations by dependency administration.
We’ve launched just a few new issues for our Maven assist:
A brand new remediation technique override.
Help for studying and writing pom.xml information, together with writing adjustments to native mum or dad pom information. We leverage OSV-Scalibr for Maven transitive dependency extraction.
A personal registry could be specified to fetch Maven metadata.
A brand new experimental subcommend to replace all of your dependencies in pom.xml to the newest 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:
Continued OSV-SCALIBR Convergence: We’ll proceed to converge OSV-Scanner and OSV-SCALIBR to convey OSV-SCALIBR’s performance to OSV-Scanner’s CLI interface.
Expanded Ecosystem Help: 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 normal lockfile assist for supply code scanning.
Full Filesystem Accountability for Containers: One other objective of osv-scanner is to provide the capability to know and account for each single file in your container picture, together with sideloaded binaries downloaded from the web.
Reachability Evaluation: We’re engaged on integrating reachability evaluation to offer deeper insights into the potential impression of vulnerabilities.
VEX Help: We’re planning so as to add assist for Vulnerability Alternate (VEX) to facilitate higher communication and collaboration round vulnerability data.
Attempt OSV-Scanner V2
You’ll be able to strive V2.0.0 and contribute to its ongoing improvement by testing 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.
When you have any questions or if you need to contribute, do not hesitate to succeed in out to us at osv-discuss@google.com, or publish a difficulty in our challenge tracker.
