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Broadcom Security Advisories CDF

The web format of this guide reflects the most current release.  Guides for older iterations are available in PDF format.  

Integration Details

ThreatQuotient provides the following details for this integration:

Introduction

The Broadcom Security Advisories CDF enables analysts to ingest security advisories from the Broadcom website in order to stay up-to-date on software updates and patched vulnerabilities for VMware products.

The integration provides the following feed:

  • Broadcom Security Advisories - ingests Broadcom Security Advisories.

The integration ingests the following system object types:

  • Event
  • Incident
  • Indicator
  • Report
  • Vulnerability

Installation

Perform the following steps to install the integration:

The same steps can be used to upgrade the integration to a new version.

  1. Log into https://marketplace.threatq.com/.
  2. Locate and download the integration yaml file.
  3. Navigate to the integrations management page on your ThreatQ instance.
  4. Click on the Add New Integration button.
  5. Upload the integration yaml file using one of the following methods:
    • Drag and drop the file into the dialog box
    • Select Click to Browse to locate the file on your local machine
  6. Select the individual feeds to install, when prompted and click Install.

    ThreatQ will inform you if the feed already exists on the platform and will require user confirmation before proceeding. ThreatQ will also inform you if the new version of the feed contains changes to the user configuration. The new user configurations will overwrite the existing ones for the feed and will require user confirmation before proceeding.

The feed(s) will be added to the integrations page. You will still need to configure and then enable the feed.

Configuration

ThreatQuotient does not issue API keys for third-party vendors. Contact the specific vendor to obtain API keys and other integration-related credentials.

To configure the integration:

  1. Navigate to your integrations management page in ThreatQ.
  2. Select the OSINT option from the Category dropdown (optional).

    If you are installing the integration for the first time, it will be located under the Disabled tab.

  3. Click on the integration entry to open its details page.
  4. Enter the following parameters under the Configuration tab:
    Parameter Description
    Enable SSL Certificate Verification Enable this parameter if the feed should validate the host-provided SSL certificate. 
    Disable Proxies Enable this parameter if the feed should not honor proxies set in the ThreatQ UI.
    Product Areas Select which products to fetch security advisories for with the feed.
    • VMware Cloud Foundation (default)
    • Tanzu
    • Application Networking and Security (default)
    • Software Defined Edge (default)
    Ingest Advisories As Select the object type to ingest the security advisories as in the ThreatQ platform. Options include:
    • Reports (default)
    • Vulnerabilities
    • Events
    • Incidents
    Severity Filter Select the advisory severities you want to ingest into ThreatQ. Options include:
    • Low Medium (default)
    • High (default)
    • Critical (default)
    Ingest CVEs as Select the entity type to ingest CVE IDs as in ThreatQ. Options include:
    • Indicators
    • Vulnerabilities

    Configuration Screen
  5. Review any additional settings, make any changes if needed, and click on Save.
  6. Click on the toggle switch, located above the Additional Information section, to enable it.

ThreatQ Mapping

Broadcom Security Advisories

The Broadcom Security Advisories feed periodically pulls security advisories from the Broadcom website and ingests them into ThreatQ.

GET https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/security-advisory/-/securityadvisory/getSecurityAdvisoryList

Sample Request Body:

{
  "pageNumber": 0,
  "pageSize": 20,
  "searchVal": "",
  "segment": "VC",
  "sortInfo": {
    "column": "",
    "order": ""
  }
}

Sample Response:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "list": [
      {
        "documentId": "VCDSA35843",
        "notificationId": 35843,
        "published": "18 June 2025",
        "status": "CLOSED",
        "title": "Product Release Advisory - VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.5.0",
        "updated": "2025-06-18 23:43:48.549",
        "totalRecords": null,
        "notificationUrl": "https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/35843",
        "alertType": "S",
        "severity": "CRITICAL",
        "supportProducts": "VMware Tanzu Data Suite,V...",
        "affectedCve": "CVE-2025-22243, CVE-2025-22244",
        "workAround": ""
      }
    ]
  }
}

In addition, the HTML content for each security advisory is also fetched and imported as the description for the Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident Object. The HTML content is fetched using .notificationUrl key.

ThreatQuotient provides the following default mapping for this feed based on each dictionary within the data key in the JSON response and HTML content.

Feed Data Path ThreatQ Entity ThreatQ Object Type or Attribute Key Published Date Examples Notes
.affectedCve Indicator/Vulnerability.Value CVE/Vulnerability .published CVE-2025-22243, CVE-2025-22244 Split by a comma. Ingested according to Ingest CVEs As.
{HTML} Indicator/Vulnerability.Value CVE/Vulnerability .published N/A Parsed from HTML. Ingested according to Ingest CVEs As.
.title Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Value Report/Vulnerability/
Event/Incident
.published Product Release Advisory - VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.5.0 Ingested according to Ingest Advisories As.
N/A Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Tag N/A N/A advisory Static Tag.
.{HTML} Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Description N/A N/A <HTML content> N/A
.Severity Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute, Indicator/Vulnerability.Attribute Severity .published Critical Title cased. Updatable.
{HTML} Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute, Indicator/Vulnerability.Attribute Affected Product .published VMware Tanzu Data Suite Parsed from HTML.
{HTML} Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute CVSSv3 Base Score .published 9.8 Parsed from HTML. Updatable.
.N/A Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute, Indicator/Vulnerability.Attribute Affected Vendor .published VMWare Static Attribute.
.status Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute Status .published Closed Title cased. Updatable.
.documentId Report/Vulnerability/Event/Incident.Attribute Notification ID .published VCDSA35843 N/A

Average Feed Run

Object counts and Feed runtime are supplied as generalities only - objects returned by a provider can differ based on credential configurations and Feed runtime may vary based on system resources and load.

Metric Result
Run Time 1 minute
Reports 12
Report Attributes 48
Indicators 27
Indicator Attributes 81

Known Issues / Limitations

  • It is highly recommended to run this integration every 5 days based on the average publication rate for article updates and new content.
  • The feed utilizes since and until dates to avoid reingesting entries that haven't been updated.   

Change Log

  • Version 1.0.0
    • Initial release

PDF Guides

Document ThreatQ Version
Broadcom Security Advisories CDF Guide v1.0.0 5.5.0 or Greater