Offline Backups

Numerous categories and types of offline backups are available via the VulnCheck platform. Details on types of offline backups available are below.

All major data sets are available via the VulnCheck platform are available via cloud-based API live lookups or via offline backups. Note: Offline backups are only available to those customers who have purchased a subscription license.

Most customers evaluating the service leverage the API to make live lookups one query at a time, such as checking for whether exploits exist for a given CVE.

List of Offline Backups Available

To get a list of offline backups available, simply call this /v3/backup API as follows:

curl --request GET \
    --url https://api.vulncheck.com/v3/backup \
    --header 'Accept: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer insert_token_here'

Request an Offline Backup

To request a specific offline backup, simply call /v3/backup/:index as follows:

curl --request GET \
    --url https://api.vulncheck.com/v3/backup/vulncheck-nvd2 \
    --header 'Accept: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer insert_token_here'

The above example requests an offline backup for the "vulncheck-nvd2" index, which is the NIST NVD 2.0 data with VulnCheck extensions.