RE: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found?
We welcome and encourage participation from any vendor to provide us with this information. We will be happy to work with Debian to accept their CPE submissions for products that they release. What would help you to get started? We can set-up a quick call if that would help, otherwise the cpe_dictionary@nist.gov email is the correct place for submissions.
Related to CPE, is another software identification scheme, Software ID (SWID) Tags (ISO 19770-2:2015) that we think provides more capability and benefit. We have a document currently in draft, NIST IR 8060 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#NIST-IR-8060), that describes how to create and use SWID tags as well as some use cases. I mention the SWID tags since we can also auto generate CPEs from those, and we see SWID tags as longer term solution to the problem of software product identification and inventory.
Regards,
-Harold
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From: Wheeler, David A [mailto:dwheeler@ida.org]
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Subject: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found?
Should Debian's security team ask for a Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) id when a related CVE is found/reported fixed?
CPEs are used to by some systems to identify software (including, optionally, specific version numbers of software). Some security scanning automated tools use CPEs for identification. More info on requesting CPEs here:
https://nvd.nist.gov/cpe.cfm
I thought I'd raise the idea. Thanks!
--- David A. Wheeler
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