firewallissues

An alternative view of issues documented by our favorite firewall vendor.

Feel free to host your own version, or use the one I host.

Inspired by Pixi888's creation bugidsearch.com.

Data updates

Known and addressed issues for newly released versions are easily added using the process.html page

• Copy the issue table's HTML from the webpage using devtools.
• Fill out the process.html page's fields and paste in the table HTML.
• Download the Markdown file and put it into the correct folder.
• Fix up the products.json file manually or run update_products_from_issues.py.
• Submit a pull request.

The date on the end of the Markdown file names is to have some idea of when the data was grabbed. I would imagine that sometimes there are updates. (I plan to remove the dates in the future. The git history should be sufficient.)

There is intentionally no automated scaping of Palo Alto's website, to avoid abuse of server resources. Also releases are not that frequent. A crawler to grab some data from the Common Crawl dataset was started but never really finished.

Some data was collected early on when the HTMLTable -> Markdown code was kind of bad, so the formatting of the issue write-up tends to be bad on those. Mostly PAN-OS 10 and 11 stuff.

External references

The external_refs.json file allows for links to be added to other websites that have information or discussion about certain issues.

I have vague ideas of something similar for CVEs.