Enabling security alerts for vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

About security alerts for vulnerable dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server

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

• The National Vulnerability Database
• A combination of machine learning and human review to detect vulnerabilities in public commits on GitHub
• Security advisories on GitHub
• FriendsOfPHP For more information, see "About security 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 send security alerts to owners and people with admin access in those repositories. They can customize how they receive security alerts. For more information, see "About security alerts for vulnerable dependencies."

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

3. Return to GitHub Enterprise Server.
4. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .
   
5. In the left sidebar, click Enterprise.
   
6. In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
   
7. In the left sidebar, click GitHub Connect.
   
8. 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. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .
   
2. In the left sidebar, click Vulnerabilities.
   
3. To sync vulnerability data, click Sync Vulnerabilities now.