Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Getting a Vulnerability's Details for a Host Scan

View the vulnerability details for a host identified by the host vulnerability ID.

    1. On the Scanning reports list page, select the scan that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the scan, see Listing Host Scans.
    2. Select Vulnerabilities.

      The following details are shown for each issue detected in this Compute instance:

      • Issue ID
      • Risk level
      • Issue description
      • Last detected
      • First detected
      • Cause and remediation
    3. Select an Issue ID to view more details about a specific vulnerability.
    4. Select the View detail button in the Cause and remediation column to see more information for a vulnerability. The following information is shown:
      • Name
      • Cause
      • Locations
      • Remediation

  • Use the oci vulnerability-scanning host vulnerability get command and required parameters to retrieve the vulnerabilities for a host identified by the host vulnerability ID:

    export host_vulnerability_id=<substitute-value-of-host_vulnerability_id> # https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/tools/oci-cli/latest/oci_cli_docs/cmdref/vulnerability-scanning/host/vulnerability/get.html#cmdoption-host-vulnerability-id

oci vulnerability-scanning host vulnerability get --host-vulnerability-id $host_vulnerability_id

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run GetHostVulnerability operation to retrieve the vulnerabilities for a host identified by the host vulnerability ID.