Hi all,

I recently started a discussion about pURLs as package identifier on the Tomcat 
mailing list and it was brought up, that this might be a broader topic to be 
discussed here.

Best regards
Jan

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Date: Monday, 15. April 2024 at 13:14
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> On 11/04/2024 16:52, von Loewenstein, Jan wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am part of the Paketo community, and we are providing Cloud Native
> Buildpacks to create container images with – amongst other technologies –
> Apache Tomcat and Apache TomEE as application runtimes.
> >
> > One of the features of Cloud Native Buildpacks is that images come with
> Software-Bill-of-Material. When installing Apache Tomcat, we issue the
> following CPE and pURL to the SBOM:
> >
> >    1.  cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:10.1.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
> >    2.  pkg:generic/apache-tomcat@10.1.20
> >
> > The former should be the right one for users to find relevant CVEs in
> > e.g. the nvd.nist.gov. The latter however is made up and will likely
> > not lead to any findings on e.g. 
> > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosv.dev%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cjan.von.loewenstein%40sap.com%7Cb85c9c7b0ef84a12888a08dc5d3d36f8%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638487764973925741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=THsJsmmmf%2BYnOFsfX2ET%2B9qosC%2F3%2BTmn73piJBppidA%3D&reserved=0<https://osv.dev/>
> >
> > Now I am wondering if you report Tomcat vulnerabilities under any pURL and
> which one that would be.
>
> We don't.
>
> > There is a 
> > proposal<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpackage-url%2Fpurl-&data=05%7C02%7Cjan.von.loewenstein%40sap.com%7Cb85c9c7b0ef84a12888a08dc5d3d36f8%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638487764973934423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qob5tUw6pGi%2F3crVP%2BlA%2BSqiAo4I2vWTMArkC%2F4%2BtXc%3D&reserved=0
> spec/blob/master/PURL-TYPES.rst#other-candidate-types-to-define> to
> introduce `pkg:apache` as a namespace, which would open up
> `pkg:apache/tomcat@10.1.20` as a canonical pURL.
>
> That is a foundation wide decision and not one the Tomcat project can make
> unilaterally. That is probably a topic for security-
> disc...@community.apache.org where pURL has already been touched on this
> thread:
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread%2F7hs5ooqhfozmhlvq24k5xztzn1nwp9yv&data=05%7C02%7Cjan.von.loewenstein%40sap.com%7Cb85c9c7b0ef84a12888a08dc5d3d36f8%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638487764973940781%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GxRiFt2Dwk74ykwVxLf0rE9DItO2cnyg5u5nZ8%2Fr0%2Fs%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.apache.org/thread/7hs5ooqhfozmhlvq24k5xztzn1nwp9yv>
>
> Mark

This topic might get even more important when the cyber resilience act of the 
European Union will be released.
Software manufacturers will be obliged to provide an inventory / SBOM list.
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