Enabling alerts for vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

About alerts for vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

We add vulnerabilities to the GitHub Advisory Database from the following sources:

• The National Vulnerability Database
• A combination of machine learning and human review to detect vulnerabilities in public commits on GitHub
• Security advisories reported on GitHub
• The npm Security advisories database For more information, see "About alerts for vulnerable dependencies."

You can connect your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to GitHub.com, then sync vulnerability data to your instance and generate security alerts in repositories with a vulnerable dependency.

After connecting your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to GitHub.com and enabling security alerts for vulnerable dependencies, vulnerability data is synced from GitHub.com to your instance once every hour. You can also choose to manually sync vulnerability data at any time. No code or information about code from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance is uploaded to GitHub.com.

When your GitHub Enterprise Server instance receives information about a vulnerability, it will identify repositories in your instance that use the affected version of the dependency and generate security alerts. You can customize how you receive security alerts. For more information, see "Choosing the delivery method for your notifications."

Enabling security alerts for vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

Before enabling security alerts for vulnerable dependencies on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, you must connect your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to GitHub.com. For more information, see "Connecting GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud."

1. Sign in to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance at http(s)://HOSTNAME/login.

2. In the administrative shell, enable the security alerts for vulnerable dependencies on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance:

   $ ghe-dep-graph-enable

   Note: For more information about enabling access to the administrative shell via SSH, see "Accessing the administrative shell (SSH)."

3. Return to GitHub Enterprise Server.

4. Navigate to your enterprise account by visiting https://HOSTNAME/enterprises/ENTERPRISE-NAME, replacing HOSTNAME with your instance's hostname and ENTERPRISE-NAME with your enterprise account's name.

5. In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.

   

6. In the left sidebar, click GitHub Connect.

   

7. Under "Repositories can be scanned for vulnerabilities", use the drop-down menu and select Enabled.

   

Viewing vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

You can view all vulnerabilities in your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and manually sync vulnerability data from GitHub.com to update the list.

1. From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, click in the upper-right corner of any page.
   
2. In the left sidebar, click Vulnerabilities.
   
3. To sync vulnerability data, click Sync Vulnerabilities now.