Bug 2038900

Summary:	[RFE] openscap report in json format
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Markus Schibli <mschibli>
Component:	openscap	Assignee:	Jan Černý <jcerny>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9.0	CC:	ekolesni, jcerny, matyc, mhaicman, mmarhefk, vpolasek
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, MigratedToJIRA, Triaged
Target Release:	9.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Markus Schibli 2022-01-10 14:04:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Customer would like to have the output of the openscap scanner in json format

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Openscap versions for RHEL8.x / RHEL9.x

How reproducible:


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Actual results:
currently the openscap scanner output is only in xml format available

Expected results:
it should be possible to have the choice between json and xml format for the openscap scanner output. 

Additional info:
There are discussion in https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/issues/1555 , but no progress at all.

Comment 4 Evgeny Kolesnikov 2022-01-24 15:16:26 UTC

NIST does not have a standard for SCAP documents in any format other than XML. It is impossible to directly map an XML structure into a JSON, therefore it is unclear how should the end result look.

Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2023-08-17 14:13:17 UTC

Issue migration from Bugzilla to Jira is in process at this time. This will be the last message in Jira copied from the Bugzilla bug.