sbom-cve-check

sbom-cve-check is a lightweight, standalone and easy-to-use tool that parses Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) files and using publicly available databases of security vulnerabilities (CVEs), provides a report detailing which software components are affected by known security vulnerabilities.

Key features provided by this tool:

• Accepts an SBOM file as input: currently supports SPDXv2.2 and SPDXv3.
• Supports multiple sources of vulnerability information: currently NVD and CVE List.
• Can consume various annotation formats, like OpenVEX.
• Generates exports in multiple formats, including SPDX v3.0.
• Supports plugins to add additional features.
• Filters affected CVEs based on compiled sources: if the source file affected by a CVE is not compiled in, this CVE is considered not applicable. Mostly useful to filter Linux kernel CVEs.
• Has very few dependencies, is very lightweight and easy to set up and use.
• Fully open-source, under GPLv2.

See the sbom-cve-check documentation for further details.

Motivation

This tool was started as a way of replacing the cve-check logic implemented in Yocto, which requires running a full build to perform a new CVE analysis. sbom-cve-check instead can run on the SBOM produced once by Yocto Project and can be used to regularly run the CVE analysis in less than a minute.

Getting started

Assuming you're using Yocto Project, 4 easy steps:

1. Install the tool:
   pip install sbom-cve-check[extra]
   (You may want to do this in a Python virtual environment).

2. Generate the SBOM with Yocto Project:
   SPDXv3.0 is generated by default since Yocto ProjectWalnascar (5.2).
   Add INHERIT += "vex" in your local.conf.

3. Retrieve two artifacts from the Yocto Projectdeploy directory:
   ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.spdx.json: The SPDX v3.0 SBOM file.
   ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.json: File generated by the vex.bbclass.

4. Run the CVE analysis:
   

    sbom-cve-check \
      --sbom-path ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.spdx.json \
      --yocto-vex-manifest ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.json \
      --export-type yocto-cve-check-manifest --export-path out.json
   

Roadmap

• Add support of Ubuntu CVE tracker repository.
• Automatically detect if a patch was backported.
• Add more export formats, like for example OpenVEX.
• Add CycloneDX (CDX) SBOM support as input.
• Allow to generate an SBOM (CDX or SPDX 3.0) as output even if the SBOM specified as input is in another format.

Compatibility with Yocto Project

The compatibility with the SBOM generated by Yocto Project is described in the Yocto Project SBOM section.