Splunk Enterprise Security

How to add a chart that shows the average vulnerabilities per host grouped by Service

gbhw
New Member

Hi,

I created a vulnerability dashboard that looks like this:

VulnerabilityId, Host, Service
123, HostA, Mail
234, HostA, Mail
345, HostB, Mail
123, HostC, HR
234, HostC, HR

Now I want to add a chart that shows a vulnerability index per Service. It should show the average vulnerabilities per host grouped by Service.
- Service Mail got 3 vulnerabilities divided by 2 hosts = 1,5 per host
- Service HR got 2 vulnerabilities divided by 1 host = 2 per host

Any idea how I can achieve this?

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jacobpevans
Motivator

Greetings @gbhw,

You're looking for the dc (distinct count) stats command. You can read more about stats commands here: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Stats

This is what you need for your search:

| stats dc(Host) as Host_Count dc(VulnerabilityId) as Vulnerability_Count by Service
| eval Vulnerabilites_Per_Host = Vulnerability_Count / Host_Count

Here's a full run-anywhere search demonstrating this with your sample data:

           | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="123", Host="HostA", Service="Mail"
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="234", Host="HostA", Service="Mail" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="345", Host="HostB", Service="Mail" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="123", Host="HostC", Service="HR" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="234", Host="HostC", Service="HR" ]
| stats dc(Host) as Host_Count dc(VulnerabilityId) as Vulnerability_Count by Service
| eval Vulnerabilites_Per_Host = Vulnerability_Count / Host_Count
Cheers,
Jacob

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jacobpevans
Motivator

Greetings @gbhw,

You're looking for the dc (distinct count) stats command. You can read more about stats commands here: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Stats

This is what you need for your search:

| stats dc(Host) as Host_Count dc(VulnerabilityId) as Vulnerability_Count by Service
| eval Vulnerabilites_Per_Host = Vulnerability_Count / Host_Count

Here's a full run-anywhere search demonstrating this with your sample data:

           | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="123", Host="HostA", Service="Mail"
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="234", Host="HostA", Service="Mail" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="345", Host="HostB", Service="Mail" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="123", Host="HostC", Service="HR" ]
| append [ | makeresults | eval VulnerabilityId="234", Host="HostC", Service="HR" ]
| stats dc(Host) as Host_Count dc(VulnerabilityId) as Vulnerability_Count by Service
| eval Vulnerabilites_Per_Host = Vulnerability_Count / Host_Count
Cheers,
Jacob

If you feel this response answered your question, please do not forget to mark it as such. If it did not, but you do have the answer, feel free to answer your own post and accept that as the answer.
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