Search Filters & Custom Exports
Posted by jericho
Last week, OSVDB enhanced the search results capability by adding a considerable amount of filter capability, a simple "results by year" graph and export capability. Rather than draft a huge walkthrough, open a search in a new tab and title search for "microsoft windows".
As always, the results will display showing the OSVDB ID, disclosure date and OSVDB title. On the left however, are several new options. First, a summary graph will be displayed showing the number of vulnerabilities by year, based on your search results. Next, you can toggle the displayed fields to add CVE, CVSSv2 score and/or the percent complete. The percent complete refers to the status of the OSVDB entry, and how many fields have been completed. Below that are one click filters that let you further refine your search results by the following criteria:
- Reference Type - only show results that contain a given type of reference
- Category - show results based on the vulnerability category
- Disclosure Year - refine results by limiting to a specific year
- CVSS Score - only show entries that are scored in a given range
- Percent Complete - filter results based on how complete the OSVDB entry is
Once you have your ideal search results, you can then export them to XML, custom RSS feed or CSV. The export will only work for the first 100 results. If you need a bigger data set to work with, we encourage you to download the database instead.
With the new search capability, you should be able to perform very detailed searches, easily manipulate the results and even import them into another application or presentation. If you have other ideas of how a VDB search can be refined to provide more flexibility and power, contact us!