Tenable to Jira Cloud Sync Tool

This integration is designed to pull Tenable.io vulnerability data, then generate Jira Tasks and sub-tasks based on the vulnerabilities' current state. Vulnerabilities are automatically closed once the state of the vulnerability is marked as "fixed" in Tenable.io or Tenable.sc.

• The integration creates a Vulnerability Management Business project using the project key VULN and the Simplified Task Tracking template. The integration then creates the appropriate custom fields and links them to the associated screen that stores and displays all of the necessary information.
• The integration creates a Task for each Vulnerability and creates each vulnerability instance as a Sub-task. Example: if you have 5 hosts with plugin 151074, the integration creates 1 Task with the details of 151074 and creates 5 Sub-tasks, each one pointing to a specific instance of the vulnerability on a specific host.
• Vulnerability Instances (Sub-tasks) are closed automatically by the integration once the vulnerability is fixed in Tenable.io.
• Vulnerabilities (Tasks) are closed once all Sub-tasks enter a closed state.
• If a vulnerability is re-opened, new issue tickets are generated (The integration will not reopen previously closed issues (otherwise known as necromancy))
• All data imports from Tenable.io use the last_found/last_seen fields. This ensures that all issues are updated whenever new information becomes available, unless overridden with the --first-discovery flag.
• For those that don't mind a bit more management of the script in exchange for less permissions, there is a setup-only mode that will create the project, fields, and screens, then generate a full configuration file afterwards. This file must be then used for all future runs of the integration and may need to be modified with the new, non-elevated user's authentication settings.
• Task summaries are generated using the following formula:

[Plugin ID] Plugin Name

• Sub-task summaries are generated using the following formula:

[IP Address/Port Number/Protocol] [Plugin ID] Plugin Name

The integration will create the following fields into the Jira instance

Field Name	Field Type	v1 Field Type	Screen Tab
Tenable Asset UUID	labels	labels	Asset
Tenable Asset Tags	labels	labels	Asset
Tenable Platform	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Device Hostname	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Device NetBIOS Name	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Device DNS Name	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Device IPv4 Addresses	labels	labels	Asset
Device IPv6 Addresses	labels	labels	Asset
Device Network ID	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Vulnerability Repository ID	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
Vulnerability Repository Name	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Asset
CVEs	labels	labels	Vulnerability
Tenable VPR Score	float	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
CVSSv2 Base Score	float	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
CVSSv2 Temporal Score	float	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
CVSSv3 Base Score	float	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
CVSSv3 Temporal Score	float	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Tenable Plugin ID	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Tenable Plugin Family	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Tenable Plugin Name	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Severity	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Vulnerability First Seen	datetime	datetime	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Last Seen	datetime	datetime	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Last Seen	datetime	datetime	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Last Fixed	datetime	datetime	Vulnerability
Vulnerability State	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Port	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Vulnerability Protocol	readonlyfield	readonlyfield	Vulnerability
Patch Publication Date	date	date	Vulnerability
Finding Severity	readonlyfield		Vulnerability
Tenable Finding ID	readonlyfield		Vulnerability

• Vulnerability Definition (Task Issue-Type) uniqueness is determined by the following attributes:

  • Tenable Plugin ID

• Vulnerability Instance (Sub-Task Issue-Type) uniqueness is determines by the following attributes:

• Tenable Platform

• Tenable Plugin ID

• Tenable Asset UUID

• Device IPv4 Addresses

• Device IPv6 Addresses

• Vulnerability Port

• Vulnerability Protocol

Requirements

• Python 3.10+ Installed (Versions less than 3.10 are untested and YMMV).
• Tenable.io API Keys associated to an account with "CanView" permissions for "AllAssets" (required for the Vuln Export APIs)
• Tenable.sc API Keys associated to an account with full access to the vulnerability data.
• For Tenable.sc, an Analysis Query ID that represents the query to run against the vulnerability data.
• Jira Cloud Basic Auth API Token and Username. For automatic project creation and management, the account must have Admin privileges.
• A host to run the script on. This can be located anywhere as the integration is cloud-to-cloud.

Permissions

• The script requires Site Admin Access at least initially to create the project, the custom fields, and link everything to the right screens.
• The script requires Admin access to the project that it has created. Depending on the permissions setup within your own Jira Cloud instance, this may not be enough however. If you are seeing errors, please refer to the list of required permissions (below).
• If using setup-only (as Admin) to let the script create all of the requirements, afterwards, it's been reported that the following permissions should yield successful runs:
  • Assignable User
  • Assign Issues
  • Close Issues
  • Create Issues
  • Delete Issues
  • Edit Issues
  • Link Issues
  • Modify Reporter
  • Move Issues
  • Resolve Issues
  • Schedule Issues
  • Set Issue Security
  • Transition Issues

Quickstart

Installation

pip install tenb2jira

Configuration

In order to configure the integration, pull either the New Integration or the Version 1 Migration configuration templates and add populate the configuration file with the relevant details. The configuration file has documentation within it that should walk you all of the available settings, however at a minimum, you will need to configure the following attributes within the following sections:

[tenable]
platform   = The platform we will be interfacing to.  Either "tvm" or "tsc"
access_key = The API Access key for the account
secret_key = The API Secret key for the account
url        = The URL (if not a TVM instance)

[jira]
api_username = The username that we will be interfacing with
api_token    = The API token we will be using for auth
url          = The URL for the Jira instance.

The rest of the settings in the configuration file are pre-configured for the most common use cases, however can be modified if need be. For information on what the various settings do, refer to the documentation within the config file itself for more information.

Once the configuration file has been modified and saved, you can confirm that the changes are still valid using the "validate" command within the CLI.

tenb2jira validate /path/to/config.toml

Initial Setup

We a valid configuration file, we can tell the integration to create and/or link up the project, issue-types, and fields necessary to make this integration run. To perform this operation, simply run the following:

tenb2jira build /path/to/config.toml

Once the Jira project setup process is complete, a series ot tables will be returned to the screen detailing what was setup, which should look similar to this:

If everything looks good, then we can move on to the actual sync!

General operation

This integration is designed to first query Jira and get the listing of open issues, store them in a sqlite database, and then query the Tenable platform to get the findings. From there we will match up against that mapping database any existing findings, search Jira for anything that could match if that fails, and lastly create a new issue if no matches exist in either the database or within Jira. For a more detailed workflow diagram, scroll to the bottom of this document.

Once the job has completed, a last_run parameter will also be added/updated to the [tenable] section of the configuration file. This parameter will be used for subsequent runs to pull the updates from that timestamp.

To launch the integration, just run the sync command:

tenb2jira sync /path/to/config.toml