Release 1.37

March 4, 2025

What’s New?

Support Red Hat Scanner Vulnerability Details

With this release, the Qualys Container Security is now 'Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner' Certified enabling you to secure your Red Hat environment. With this change, you can choose to see 'Red Hat Security Advisory (RHSA)' information in Image and Container reports. To support these changes, a few new options are introduced in the 'Image Vulnerability' and 'Container Vulnerability' report templates. To select these new options, go to Container Security > Reports > Create Report > Report Source (Image Vulnerability or Container Vulnerability Report Template) > Report Schedule > Report Display. 

Image Vulenrability Report Display page showing RedHat Scanner options

 

Qualys Container Security Container Vulnerability Report Checkboxes
Container Vulnerability Report Display page showing RedHat Scanner options

 

The table below provides information about the new options introdcued for RHSA support.

Report Template New Option Description

 

Image Vulnerability

And

Container Vulnerability

RHSA ID Generates a column to show Red Hat Security Advisory (RHSA) ID. 
RHSA SEVERITY Generates a column to show RHSA Severity.
Valid values - Low, Moderate, Important, or Critical.
RHSA CVE SEVERITY Generates a column to indicate the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score ranging from '0' to '10'. 
RHSA CVE CVSS2 BASE SCORE Generates a column to show CVSS version 2 base score ranging from '0' to '10'.
RHSA CVE CVSS3 BASE SCORE Generates a column to show CVSS version 3 base score ranging from '0' to '10'.

 

After opting for the RHSA options, the resultant report shows the RHSA columns.


- If a QID has more than one RHSA ID, the first RHSA ID will be considered and ignoring the others. 
- In the absence of RHSA ID or RHSA CVE Severity, the QID shows RHSA ID or RHSA CVE Severity as 'Null'.

QQL Token Updates 

With the RedHat certification, the Container Security has introduced the following QQLs.

QQL Page on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform: Container Security > Assets > Images

  • vulnerabilities.vendorData.rhsa.severity
  • vulnerabilities.vendorData.rhsa.id
  • vulnerabilities.vendorData.rhsa.cve.severity
  • vulnerabilities.vendorData.rhsa.cve.cvss2.baseScore
  • vulnerabilities.vendorData.rhsa.cve.cvss3.baseScore

QQL Page on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform: Container Security > Assets > Image > View Details

  • vendorData.rhsa.severity
  • vendorData.rhsa.id
  • vendorData.rhsa.cve.severity
  • vendorData.rhsa.cve.cvss2.baseScore
  • vendorData.rhsa.cve.cvss3.baseScore

To know more about the QQLs and their usage, refer to CS Online Help.

To know more about Qualys Red Hat Scanner Certification, refer to

 

Support Host Architecture Information in Container Vulnerability Report

Containers are built using specific architecture types, such as x86_64, or ARM, and so on. Understanding the host architecture is essential for determining whether it affects your environment, applying appropriate patches, and ensuring that your containerized applications are properly secured. It also helps you to ensure that vulnerability management strategies are aligned with the specific characteristics and requirements of the underlying hardware architecture.

The container vulnerability reports can now show the information about the host architecture used in the containers. To support this change, a new option 'HOST ARCHITECTURE' is introduced in the 'Container Vulnerability' report diplay. To select this new option, go to Container Security > Reports > Create Report > Report Source (Container Vulnerability Report Template) > Report Schedule > Report Display.

The table below provides information about the new option.

Report Template New Option Description
Container Vulnerability Host Architecture Generates the Host Architecture column in the Container report. The column shows the host architecture used.
Valid values: amd64, arm64, or x86_64 

Select the 'HOST ARCHITECTURE' option to add a new column in the respective container vulnerability report. 

 

Ability to Enable or Disable the Vulnerability Exception

You now have an option to enable or disable the Vulnerability Exception. Along with this, you can see exempted vulnerabilities in Vulnerabilities list pages of Images, and Containers.

A new option called Include exempted vulnerabilities is available under Assets > Images/Containers > Image/Container details > Vulnerabilities. When you enable 'Include exempted vulnerabilities' toggle you will see new column 'EXEMPTED' in the vulnerabilities list to show if a QID is exempted. It carries either True (Exempted vulnerability) or False (non-exempted vulnerability) value.

You can get a list of all exempted QIDs by filtering the container or image vulnerability CSV report (Assets > Images/Containers > Image/Container Details > Vulnerabilities).

Similarly, you can also see the exempted QIDs in the 'Image Vulnerability' and 'Container Vulnerability' reports. To show such exempted vulnerabilities, a new option 'IS QID EXEMPTED' is introduced in the Report Display page.

Image Vulnerability Report Display

 

Container Vulnerability Report Display

The table below provides information about the new options.

Report Template New Option Description
Image Vulnerability

And

Container Vulnerability 		IS QID EXEMPTED Generates the IS EXEMPTED column to indicate if any QID is exempted.
Valid values: True or False. 

 

Select the 'IS QID EXEMPTED' option to add a new column in the respective image or container vulnerability report. See Image vulnerabilities report shown below that shows IS QID EXEMPTED column. Similar column is displayed in a Container Vulnerabilities report. You can also use filter option to display exempted (True) and non-exempted (False) QIDs.

 

Ability to Detect Per Layer Vulnerability

Container images are built up in layers, and each layer can introduce specific security risks or vulnerabilities. Understanding vulnerabilities at the layer level provides granular insights and helps you manage security risks more effectively.

Earlier, Qualys Container Security used to show Image SHA of the base image. With this release, you can see details of each layer present in your image. Under Images > Image Details > Layers, You can find details of each layer such as Layer ID, Command used, layer creation date, and vulnerabilities found in that layer along with its severity level. From the Layer Type drop-down, you can use Base Layer option to see only Base layers present in that image. You can select Application Layer to see only Application layers present in that image. Use the Show only vulnerable layers toggle bar to see layers with vulnerabilities. 

Click the Vulnerabilities present in an layer to go to the Vulnerabilities page that shows vulnerabilities present in that layer along with their details.

QQL Token Updates 

With the Per layer Vulnerability, the Container Security has introduced the following QQLs.

QQL Page on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform: Container Security > Assets > Images  > Image Details > Vulnerabilities

  • layerSha
  • vulnerabilities.layerSha

To know more about the QQLs and their usage, refer to CS Online Help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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