Hello, new Appcanary API and CentOS support!

A lot of our users have told us,

“Gosh, I love knowing exactly which packages I have to update in order to keep my apps and servers secure. Have you thought about an API?”

We listened carefully to that feedback, and it is with pride and pleasure that we’re announcing our new beta! We’re still busy improving it, so we won’t charge you for it for now.

Once you sign up, all you have to do is issue a curl:

curl -H "Authorization: Token YOURTOKENHERE" \
     -X POST -F file=@./Gemfile.lock \
     https://appcanary.com/api/v2/check/ruby

and you’ll get a response like:

{
  "vulnerable": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "type": "artifact-version",
      "attributes": {
        "name": "rack",
        "kind": "rubygem",
        "number": "1.6.0",
        "vulnerabilities": [
          {
            "title": "Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack",
            "description": "Carefully crafted requests can cause a `SystemStackError` and potentially \ncause a denial of service attack. \n\nAll users running an affected release should upgrade.",
            "criticality": "high",
            "cve": [
              "CVE-2015-3225"
            ],
            "osvdb": [],
            "patched-versions": [
              "~< 1.5.4",
              "~< 1.4.6",
              ">= 1.6.2"
            ],
            "unaffected-versions": [],
            "uuid": "55807540-053f-40f0-9266-a3d1ca6a5838",
            "upgrade-to": [
              ">= 1.6.2"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Our API fully supports Ruby, Ubuntu, and CentOS 7! You can learn more about how to use it by visiting the docs page.

Which reminds us,

We now support CentOS 7!

Appcanary now fully supports CentoOS 7. If you install our agent on a CentOS 7 server, we will email you notifications whenever any rpm package you have installed on your system has a known vulnerability.

If you’re not a current user and want to try out Appcanary’s API and/or use us to monitor your CentOS 7 servers, you can sign up!

You can always let us know what you think at hello@appcanary.com.