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Mirroring the NVD from NIST

Several organizations have opted to mirror the NVD on an internal server and have the dependency-check clients simply pull the updates from the mirror. This setup is fairly simple:

  1. Setup a nightly job to pull down the latest NVD files files from NIST
    • Note, all of the NVD files must be downloaded: both 1.2 and 2.0 schema for 2002 on.
    • See the Nist-Data-Mirror project on github.
  2. Configure the dependency-check clients to use the internal CVE urls. Note, all four URLs must be specified (see the configuration for the specific dependency-check client used):
    • cveUrl12Modified
    • cveUrl20Modified
    • cveUrl12Base
    • cveUrl20Base