A distributed vulnerability database for Open Source

An open, precise, and distributed approach to producing and consuming vulnerability information for open source.

Ecosystems

AlmaLinux
4981 View AlmaLinux vulnerabilities
Alpaquita
9982 View Alpaquita vulnerabilities
Alpine
4155 View Alpine vulnerabilities
Android
2912 View Android vulnerabilities
Azure Linux
12016 View Azure Linux vulnerabilities
BellSoft Hardened Containers
479 View BellSoft Hardened Containers vulnerabilities
Bitnami
7929 View Bitnami vulnerabilities
Chainguard
6476 View Chainguard vulnerabilities
CleanStart
1266 View CleanStart vulnerabilities
crates.io
2414 View crates.io vulnerabilities
Debian
56962 View Debian vulnerabilities
Echo
4021 View Echo vulnerabilities
GIT
87322 View GIT vulnerabilities
GitHub Actions
52 View GitHub Actions vulnerabilities
Go
7006 View Go vulnerabilities
Hackage
31 View Hackage vulnerabilities
Hex
114 View Hex vulnerabilities
Julia
894 View Julia vulnerabilities
Linux
24777 View Linux vulnerabilities
Mageia
5937 View Mageia vulnerabilities
Maven
6503 View Maven vulnerabilities
MinimOS
40993 View MinimOS vulnerabilities
npm
219419 View npm vulnerabilities
NuGet
1709 View NuGet vulnerabilities
openEuler
6888 View openEuler vulnerabilities
openSUSE
12858 View openSUSE vulnerabilities
OSS-Fuzz
3910 View OSS-Fuzz vulnerabilities
Packagist
6355 View Packagist vulnerabilities
PyPI
19798 View PyPI vulnerabilities
Red Hat
20264 View Red Hat vulnerabilities
Rocky Linux
3288 View Rocky Linux vulnerabilities
Root
14673 View Root vulnerabilities
RubyGems
1964 View RubyGems vulnerabilities
SUSE
20560 View SUSE vulnerabilities
SwiftURL
53 View SwiftURL vulnerabilities
TuxCare
4472 View TuxCare vulnerabilities
Ubuntu
54662 View Ubuntu vulnerabilities
Wolfi
4174 View Wolfi vulnerabilities

OSV schema

All advisories in this database use the OpenSSF OSV format, which was developed in collaboration with open source communities.

The OSV schema provides a human and machine readable data format to describe vulnerabilities in a way that precisely maps to open source package versions or commit hashes.

{
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "id": "GHSA-c3g4-w6cv-6v7h",
  "modified": "2022-04-01T13:56:42Z",
  "published": "2022-04-01T13:56:42Z",
  "aliases": [ "CVE-2022-27651" ],
  "summary": "Non-empty default inheritable capabilities for linux container in Buildah",
  "details": "A bug was found in Buildah where containers were created ...",
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/containers/buildah"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "SEMVER",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.25.0"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/containers/buildah/commit/..."
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/containers/buildah"
    }
  ]
}

Data sources

This infrastructure serves as an aggregator of vulnerability databases that have adopted the OSV schema, including GitHub Security Advisories, PyPA, RustSec, and Global Security Database, and more.

Use the API

An easy-to-use API is available to query for all known vulnerabilities by either a commit hash, or a package version.

Query by commit hash

curl -d \
  '{"commit": "6879efc2c1596d11a6a6ad296f80063b558d5e0f"}' \
  "https://api.osv.dev/v1/query"
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Query by version number

curl -d \
  '{"version": "2.4.1",
    "package": {"name": "jinja2", "ecosystem": "PyPI"}}' \
  "https://api.osv.dev/v1/query"
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Vulnerability Scanner

Install OSV‑Scanner

go install github.com/google/osv-scanner/v2/cmd/osv-scanner@v2
          
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Scan SBOM or Lockfiles

osv-scanner --sbom=cycloned-or-spdx-sbom.json
osv-scanner --lockfile=package-lock.json
          
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Scan directory recursively

osv-scanner -r path/to/your/project
          
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Remediation Tools

Guided Remediation (basic)

osv-scanner fix --non-interactive --strategy=in-place -L path/to/package-lock.json
osv-scanner fix --non-interactive --strategy=relock -M path/to/package.json -L path/to/package-lock.json
          
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Guided Remediation (interactive)

osv-scanner fix -M path/to/package.json -L path/to/package-lock.json
          
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Container Image Scanning

You can use OSV-Scanner to scan your container images for known vulnerabilities.

Scan container image

osv-scanner scan image --serve alpine:3.12
          
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Screenshot of container scan HTML output

GitHub Workflows

OSV-Scanner also provides reusable GitHub workflows that can be easily integrated into CI/CD pipelines to provide continuous vulnerability scanning coverage. This can scan newly added dependencies in pull requests for introduced vulnerabilities, as well as perform regular vulnerability scans for the entire project.

Screenshot of OSV-Scanner GitHub Action

Open source

This project is open source. If you have any ideas or questions, please feel free to reach out by creating an issue!