OpenKAT 1.10

The most visible change is that the user interface got major improvements and uses the latest version of Manon. There are still some minor issues left that will be fixed in upcoming releases.

Finding types have been moved from Rocky database to Octopoes/XTDB and types are an OOI now. Having the findings together with finding types in XTDB means that we can query, aggregate and/or filter the findings based on findingtypes or severity in XTDB. By doing those queries completely in XTDB we fixed several performance issues. Finding types are added by boefjes which will also give more flexibility adding/changing/updating finding types in the future.

The CVE finding boefje will download the CVE information from https://cve.openkat.dev/. It is also possible to run your own instance of this API, see CVE API for more information.

The Python version used in the container images have been updated to 3.11. Python 3.11 is a lot faster so this should also make OpenKAT faster. Django version has also been updated to version 4.2.

This release also provides packages for Debian 12 (bookworm). We recommend everyone to upgrade their machines to Debian 12 because the included Python 3.11 will give a big performance boost. Debian 11 packages will still be provided until December 2023 as described in Supported distributions.

New Features

  • Two factor auth can be disabled. We recommend that this only be used for development/test installations or when external authentication is in use.

  • External authentication support using Django’s standard middleware that uses REMOTE_USER. See External authentication how to configure this.

  • The used signing provider is stored alongside rawfiles to make it possible to switch providers and still check older rawfiles.

  • The task list has better filters.

  • Environment variables for boefjes aren’t tutomatically inherited from the runner process anymore and need to be set explicitly.

  • New masscan boefje for scanning IP ranges. This boefje should work better for large ranges than the nmap IP range boefje.

  • New external asset database boefje that can query an external database HTTP API to import IPs, netblocks and hostnames.

Bug fixes

  • Sleeping is only done when all queues are empty. This makes it possible to increase the boefjes/normalizer poll interval without a decrease in throughput.

  • The Fierce boefje got some fixes.

  • A number of bugs in the scheduler have been fixed.

Upgrading

Django 4.2 requires that the trusted origins for CSRF protection is set. This can be done using the DJANGO_CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS variable. It is a good idea to also set DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS to the used hostnames, detailed instructions are written in the Hardening section.

If you configured system environment settings for boefjes or relied on existing system variables being inherited by boefjes you need to explicitly set those variables using either the boefje settings in the KAT-alogus or system environment variables provided to the boefje process prepended with BOEFJE_. See environment variables section of the Boefjes documentation for more information.

The normal instructions for upgrading Debian packages or upgrading containers should be followed.

Full Changelog

The full changelog can be found on Github.