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Add support for a structured SBOM #162

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sambhav opened this issue May 21, 2021 · 2 comments
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Add support for a structured SBOM #162

sambhav opened this issue May 21, 2021 · 2 comments
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sambhav commented May 21, 2021

Currently since container images built by CNB don't follow a generic file system layout, they are not easily scannable by container scanning tools. We do however provide a BOM which should greatly help sidestep the entire manual scanning process and speed up things like CVE detection by directly providing the CVE scanner with a BOM.

However, since we currently do not impose any standard for what the BOM should look like and since the metadata table in BOM is a freeform table, it is very hard to have consistent BOMs that can be used by CVE scanners.

There are various standards for specifying a SBOM (Software bill of materials). The primary ones include

It might be worth investigating all these formats as a standard recommendation for BOM.

Creating this issue to track the creation of an RFC for this.


From current investigation in buildpacks/community#82, cyclonedx seems to be the front-runner in terms of tooling. We do however want interoperability with SPDX which cyclone dx also seems to provide.

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sambhav commented May 21, 2021

Assigning this to myself for now. If I don't get to it within the next week, we can open this up with a "help wanted" tag.

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sambhav commented Nov 19, 2021

Fixed with #166

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