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Status Under review
Workspace z/OS
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 4, 2024

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Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardized naming convention to identify the affected products/technologies should be used. With the "Common Platform Enumeration" (CPE) there already exists a standard naming scheme which is used for identifying a product in the affected version for vulnerability management.

Currently when working with the “IBM Z and LinuxONE Security Portal” within Resource link for the z/OS environment a product name is provided for a vulnerability, as long as the mapping with the FMID is not made. For zVM a Compid with a RLS Nr. is used.

IDEAS request:

Provide a commonly used standard for identifying a vulnerable product in the security portal through the usage of the naming scheme CPE

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 4, 2024

    Very important and highly appreciated!

    Mainframe customers are required to deliver zSystem vulnerabilities into standard vulnerability management systems of their company in order to track patching processes and make sure vulnerabilites are mitigated in line with security policy requirements. Without a correct and automatically processable matching of

    1. vulnerability to product/version (IBM responsibility)

    2. product/version to customers organizational unit for patching (customers responsibility)

    dealing with something like log4j is a true nightmare.

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