CVE Search¶

Table of Contents¶

About This Package
Prerequisites
Installation
Data Table
Function Inputs
Function Output
Pre-Process Script
Post-Process Script
Rules
CVE Search Function Usage

Change Log¶

Version	Date	Change
1.1.0	04/2025	Converted example workflows to python3, updated both the workflows
1.0.2	07/2020	Proxy support added
1.0.1	04/2020	Added AppHost Support
1.0.0	03/2019	Initial Release

About This Package:¶

This package contains Resilient functions that allows one to search for Common Vulnerability Exposures (CVE).

This package implements different ways to search the CVE database such as:
- Browse product and vendor categories
- Search by specific CVE ID
- Retrieve last 30 CVE’s
This package makes use of the following CVE API call to get information on a given query https://cve.circl.lu/api/{search param}/{vendor name}/{product name}
For more information, see the circl website

CVE Search Function Layout:¶

CVE Search Pre-Process Script¶

CVE Search Post-Process Script¶

CVE Browse Function Layout:¶

CVE Browse Pre-Process Script¶

CVE Browse Post-Process Script¶

Prerequisites:¶

Resilient Appliance >= 51.0.0
Integrations Server running resilient_circuits >= 51.0.0

Installation¶

This package requires that it be installed on a RHEL or CentOS platform using the resilient-circuits framework.

Download the .zip file from the XForce App Exchange and extract it. You will find a file called: fn_cve_search-<version>.tar.gz
Copy this file to your Integrations Server

To install the package, run:

$ pip install fn_cve_search-<version>.tar.gz

To import the function, example rules, data tables and workflows into your Resilient Appliance, run:
```
$ resilient-circuits customize -l fn-cve-search
```
To update your app.config file with the required CVE Search configurations, run:
```
$ resilient-circuits config -u
```
Access your app.config file and review the parameters added. Edit the max_results_display counter value to limit the maximum number of search results to display on table.

| Name | Required | Example | | ‘max_results_display’ | Yes | 50 | | ‘cve_base_url’ | Yes | https://cve.circl.lu/api | | ‘http_proxy’ | No | — | | ‘https_proxy’ | No | — |

To uninstall CVE Function from Resilient, run:
```
$ pip uninstall fn_cve_search
```

Data Table¶

Data Table Utils: CVE Searched Data¶

This table will contain the results of the CVE searches.

Display the Data Table in an incident¶

In order to display the CVE Searched datatable in your incident, you must modify your Layout Settings:

Go to Customization Settings > Layouts > Incident Tabs > + Add Tab
Enter CVE SEARCH DATA and click Add
Drag the Data table into the middle and click Save
Within an incident, the CVE Search Data tab contains the CVE Searched Data Table

Function Inputs¶

CVE Search Function¶

CVE Browse Function¶

Function Output¶

The payload from the function will contain the JSON from the CVE API Call and the name of the API Call

results = {
    "content": #JSON returned from CVE API Call,
    "api_call": #"last"/"browse"/"search"/"cve"/"db"
}

To see the output of each of the API calls for this Function, we recommend running resilient-circuits in DEBUG mode.

To do this run:

$ resilient-circuits run --loglevel=DEBUG

Pre-Process Script¶

CVE Browse

This example sets the cve_browse_criteria, cve_vendor inputs to the entered vendor name

inputs.cve_browse_criteria = 'browse'
inputs.cve_vendor = rule.properties.cve_vendor

CVE Search

This example sets the cve_id, cve_vendor, cve_product, cve_published_date_from, cve_published_date_to inputs to search selections entered on the rule dialog box. See below for the combinations used in searches.

# Specific CVE ID
inputs.cve_id = rule.properties.cve_id
# Name of the Vendor
inputs.cve_vendor = rule.properties.vendor
# Name of the product
inputs.cve_product = rule.properties.product
# Search CVE Data from Date
inputs.cve_published_date_from = rule.properties.cve_published_date_from
# Search CVE Data upto Date
inputs.cve_published_date_to = rule.properties.cve_published_date_to

Post-Process Script¶

Returned results are parsed within the post-process script as results.get("content"). Based on the api_call type, the data is represented as follows:

Example: CVE Browse function data is displayed on incident notes, and
Example: CVE Search function data displayed on the CVE Searched Data table.

CVE Search¶

#globals
ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP = {
     "cve": "cve_id",
     "pubdte": "published_date",
     "sum": "summary",
     "ref": "references",
     "vc": "vulnerability_configuration",
     "vc2": "vulnerable_configuration_cpe_2_2"
}

api_call_type = results['api_call']
output_data = results['content']
api_call_type_text = "<p><b>api call type :</b> {}</p>"
browse_rich_text = "<p><b>{}&ensp:&ensp</b>{}&ensp&ensp</p>"
rich_text_tmp = ""

#Adding data to table
ref_link_text = ""
if output_data:
     for dict_element in output_data:
          rich_text_tmp = ""
          table_row_object = incident.addRow("cve_data")
          for key_data,value_data in dict_element.items():
               if key_data == 'Published':
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["pubdte"]] = int(value_data)
               elif key_data == 'id':
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["cve"]] = value_data
               elif key_data == 'summary':
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["sum"]] = value_data
               elif key_data == 'references':
                    for link_url in value_data:
                         ref_link_text += '<p><a href="{0}">{0}</a></p>'.format(link_url)
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["ref"]] = ref_link_text
               elif key_data == 'vulnerable_configuration':
                    if value_data:
                         for vc_collection in value_data:
                              if isinstance(vc_collection,dict):
                                   for key_data,value_data in vc_collection.items():
                                        text = browse_rich_text.format(key_data,value_data)
                                        rich_text_tmp += text
                              else:
                                   rich_text_tmp += "<p>{}</p>".format(vc_collection)
                    else:
                         rich_text_tmp = "No Data"
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["vc"]] = rich_text_tmp
               elif key_data == 'vulnerable_configuration_cpe_2_2':
                    rich_text_tmp_2 = ''
                    if value_data:
                         for vc_collection in value_data:
                              rich_text_tmp_2 += "<p>{}</p>".format(vc_collection)
                    else:
                         rich_text_tmp_2 = "No Data"
                    table_row_object[ENTRY_TO_DATATABLE_MAP["vc2"]] = rich_text_tmp_2
else:
     incident.addNote(u"No data returned from CVE Search\n\nCVE-ID: {}\nVendor: {}\nProduct: {}".format(rule.properties.cve_id, rule.properties.cve_vendor, rule.properties.cve_product))

CVE Browse

api_call_type = results['api_call']
output_data = results['content']
api_call_type_text = "<p><b>api call type :</b> {}</p><p><b>vendor :</b> {} </p>"
browse_rich_text = "<p><b>{}&ensp:&ensp</b>{}&ensp&ensp</p>"
rich_text_tmp = ""
#Adding Browse data and Database information Notes Section
api_call_type_text = api_call_type_text.format(api_call_type, rule.properties.cve_vendor)
browse_rich_text_final = ""

if output_data:
     for x in output_data:
          for key_data,value_data in x.items():
               text = browse_rich_text.format(key_data,value_data)
               api_call_type_text += text
     browse_rich_text_final = helper.createRichText(api_call_type_text)
else:
     browse_rich_text_final = 'No searched data returned'
incident.addNote(browse_rich_text_final)

Rules¶

Rule Name	Object Type	Workflow Triggered	Activity Fields
Example: CVE Browse	Incident	Example: CVE Browse	CVE Browse Criteria values : Browse, CVE Vendor
Example: CVE Search	Incident	Example: CVE Search	CVE Search Criteria

CVE functions perform data searches as follows

Browse:
- If all other inputs are empty, all the vendors in the database are returned.
- If a vendor name is supplied, all the products associated with the vendor are returned.
Search:
- If a CVE ID is supplied, data related to specific CVE ID is returned.
- If no parameters are supplied, the last 30 latest vulnerabilities from the database are returned up to the max_results_display flag.