(-direct-ryan) yikes formatting for this got wonky... On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ryan Shea via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Shea <ryanshea@google.com> To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org> Cc: Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:53:15 +0000 Subject: Unified Security Vulnerability Management

Manually setting up and parsing email notifications for security vulnerabilities for all vendors is mighty annoying. It looks like the ICASI CVRF <http://www.icasi.org/cvrf> Working Group thought the same thing back in 2011 when they came up with this handy XML schema. I had not known of this until yesterday and noticed that Cisco does a good job <http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/cvrfListing.x> posting their vulnerabilities in CVRF. Word on the streets is that Juniper <https://twitter.com/junipersirt/status/70627418737610752> was at least partially involved in CVRF as well. Brocade may have looked into it as well.

This does not seem like a difficult thing for vendors to do, but the missing piece may be customer interest. I am hoping to drum up some interest here -- maybe a few support requests would entice them to hand this off to an intern and we could collectively do better at managing vendor notifications. A tool <https://github.com/mschiffm/cvrfparse> to parse CVRF is already floating about as well (mschiffm).

I bet if we can get FR/PR numbers for some vendors we might be able to get a bunch of people to add support through a central set of points per vendor. Can we put the PR for juniper here? (and if other folk have a PR/FR for their pet vendor(s) add those to the list?)