/cvrf/all shows more results than /oval/all ?

[klohse]

Hello Community,

just played around with the API to find the best solution for me.

I was wondering that calling /cvrf/all shows a lot more advisories than /oval/all.

Downloading /cvrf/all is 790KB size and /oval/all only 40KB when using XML.

Am i doing something wrong or shows CVRF more products, where is the difference ?

regards,

Kai Lohse

[Andrei Batyrov · Accepted solution]

Hi Kai,

Please check this openVuln API /advisories/<oval|cvrf>/all/ does not return all results

[klohse]

Hi Andrei,

yes, thanks, just found it too, should have searched before posting.

So i will download both CVRF and OVAL to get the most amount of Information, my tool doesn't care ;-)

Is there also a difference when choosing JSON or XML or it is just a different Format ?

regards,

Kai Lohse

[Andrei Batyrov]

I'm not sure about XML/JSON but as for CVRF/OVAL, you may need to download both and combine the results, i.e. CVRF and OVAL lists may not overlap, so it's safer to combine them.

[klohse]

Thanks for the fast and helpful Response

[Andrei Batyrov]

No problem!