Are these real findings, or a situation in which fixes have been backported? At one place I worked, the corpsec guys were wildly incompetent and would try to bury me in "CVEs" in my systems that were nothing but "vulnerable" software versions with all of the "identified" vulnerabilities fixed by Debian backported patches.
These are CVEs in the base image and in standard lib dependencies. For example, just scanned an unhardened image I built today:
Are these real findings, or a situation in which fixes have been backported? At one place I worked, the corpsec guys were wildly incompetent and would try to bury me in "CVEs" in my systems that were nothing but "vulnerable" software versions with all of the "identified" vulnerabilities fixed by Debian backported patches.
Most modern scanners know the backported versions for the major vendors (ubuntu/debian/rhel/alpine), but it was definitely an issue a decade ago.
That’s not security, it’s compliance.
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If the thing measuring whether there are CVEs is also the thing creating said CVEs, are we sure they are even CVEs? Deduped? Etc.
Hold my beer
It’s like it’s made of CVEs. First 50-100 should be a good sign if it’s cleaner to start over.