CSAF Webview

A browser based web app (module) to:

• Display the contents of a CSAF 2.0 document.
• Browse the tree of documents offered by a CSAF Provider or mirror via the ROLIE feed.

Note: As of 2023-12-14 all but one server do not allow web applications to read the CSAF information directly. So you will get failures due to CORS restrictions often. See oasis-tcs/csaf#653 for more details.

A backend can act as a proxy to avoid the problems caused by CSAF Providers missing Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * headers.

The envisoned usage is to be integrated in a larger application. Therefore, csaf_webview is kept simple and stylable.

Feedback sought

Note

If you have tried or considered using this component please contact us and explain your use cases.

Please also let us know in case you are using webview and the reasons for its selection.

Open an issue in this repo or send us an email, e.g. to @bernhardreiter.

Background: Initially this web component was used in ISDuBA and the plan was to keep it external and by doing so, develop a more universal component to display CSAF files.

During ISDuBA's development we've changed the approach, integrated a copy of the code and made it ISDuBA specific instead. Putting the focus on the needs of ISDuBA first helped to understand more about what this real CSAF-handling application needed from a viewing component. Mainly a deeper integration with the handled use cases. It is hard to display CSAF documents well; which means fast and navigable that users will find the information they want easily. Depending on their tasks, users profit from tayloring the viewing experience.

Being ISDuBA specific means, we cannot easily rip out the viewing component there and make it an external module again. We could do a much better one now, but if other applications would need a deeper integration as well anyway, they may or may not profit that much.

Which leaves us with the questions:

• Is a universal web viewing component (for displaying CSAF documents) feasable and useful?
• Is there is enough demand for it?

Thus we would like to hear from you about how close this component gets to what you need to support displaying CSAF documents on the web and what you would need from it. This helps us planning the maintenance.

Screenshots

Displaying a single document

Displaying a ROLIE-Feed

The deployment via github pages is a demo and thus may not reflect the current state of the source repository.

Development

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/csaf-poc/csaf_webview.git

cd into app directory

cd csaf_webview

Install dependencies

Install current LTS version of NodeJS, e.g. see https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md . Upgrade to the latest version of npm if you can. Development has been started with Node v20 and npm 10.2.1

npm install
npx playwright install

Run development server

Optionally add -- --open to directly open a browser.

npm run dev -- --open

Drag a valid csaf-file over the dropzone.

Run unit tests

npm run test:unit

Run integration tests

npm run test:integration

Run unit tests coverage

npm run coverage

Deploy new version of GH page

npm run build:ghpage npm run deploy

Configure a local proxysetup

In order to configure a proxy server use vite.config.js. The default configuration is:

...
server: {
    proxy: {
      "/proxy/": {
        target: "https://wid.cert-bund.de/",
        changeOrigin: true,
        rewrite: (path) => path.replace(/^\/proxy/, "")
      }
    }
  },
...

For more information look here.

Change target to the URL to be proxied.

License

• csaf_webview is licensed as Free Software under Apache-2.0 License.

• See the specific source files for details, the licenses itself can be found in the directory LICENSES/.

• The resulting webpage contains third party Free Software components under licenses that to our best knowledge are compatible at time of adding the dependency. See package.json for details.