OWASP OVAL Content Project

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This project’s goal is to create standardized assesment documents (in OVAL XML format) for various application platforms such as .NET, Java, PHP etc. For example, there are several settings like Web.Config file which impacts security of ASP.NET web application. Likewise, PHP.INI has several security related settings. By creating OVAL definitions for these checks, it will enable any OVAL compatible tool (including the free OVAL Interpreter) to perform these checks.

PHP Related Security Definitions.

Below is a sample OVAL definition file which detects if Apache web server is running

 <oval_definitions xmlns="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oval="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-common-5" xmlns:oval-def="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5" xsi:schemaLocation="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5 oval-definitions-schema.xsd http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5#solaris solaris-definitions-schema.xsd http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-common-5 oval-common-schema.xsd http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5#unix unix-definitions-schema.xsd">

OWASP OVAL Content Project 5.10 2011-12-07T11:18:10.417-04:00  Apache2 is running Apache2 has been found to be running 

  

 .*apache2 .* 0 </process58_object> </oval_definitions>