Introduction

This repo is a vulnerability database and package search for sources such as Aqua Security vuln-list, OSV, NVD, GitHub, and NPM. Vulnerability data are downloaded from the sources and stored in a custom file based storage with indexes to allow offline access and quick searches.

Vulnerability Data sources

• Linux vuln-list (Forked from AquaSecurity)
• OSV (1)
• NVD (2)
• GitHub
• NPM

1 - We exclude linux and oss-fuzz feeds by default. Set the environment variable OSV_INCLUDE_FUZZ to include them.

2 - We exclude hardware (h) by default. Set the environment variable NVD_EXCLUDE_TYPES to exclude additional types such as OS (o) or application (a). An empty value means include all categories. Comma separated values are allowed. Eg: o,h

Linux distros

• AlmaLinux
• Debian
• Alpine
• Amazon Linux
• Arch Linux
• RHEL/CentOS
• Rocky Linux
• Ubuntu
• OpenSUSE/SLES
• Photon
• Chainguard
• Wolfi OS

Installation

pip install appthreat-vulnerability-db

Usage

This package is ideal as a library for managing vulnerabilities. This is used by dep-scan, a free open-source dependency audit tool. However, there is a limited cli capability available with few features to test this tool directly.

Download pre-built database

Use the ORAS cli to download a pre-built database containing all application and OS vulnerabilities.

export VDB_HOME=$HOME/vdb
oras pull ghcr.io/appthreat/vdb:v5 -o $VDB_HOME

Cache vulnerability data

Cache application vulnerabilities

vdb --cache

Typical size of this database is over 1.1 GB.

Cache application and OS vulnerabilities

vdb --cache-os

Note the size of the database with OS vulnerabilities is over 3.1 GB.

Cache from just OSV

vdb --cache --only-osv

It is possible to customise the cache behaviour by increasing the historic data period to cache by setting the following environment variables.

• NVD_START_YEAR - Default: 2018. Supports upto 2002
• GITHUB_PAGE_COUNT - Default: 2. Supports upto 20

Periodic sync

To periodically sync the latest vulnerabilities and update the database cache.

vdb --sync

Basic search

It is possible to perform simple search using the cli.

vdb --search android:8.0

vdb --search google:android:8.0

vdb --search android:8.0,simplesamlphp:1.14.11

vdb --search pkg:pypi/[email protected]

Syntax is package:version,package:version or vendor : package : version (Without space)