Building Automated ENISA Reporting
The CRA requires reporting actively exploited vulnerabilities to ENISA within 24 hours. Manual processes won’t scale. Here’s how to automate it.
The Reporting Workflow
Vulnerability Detected
↓ (automated triage)
Is it actively exploited? ──No──→ Standard vulnerability handling
↓ Yes
START 24-HOUR CLOCK
↓
Hour 0-24: Early Warning to ENISA
├── Product identification
├── Severity assessment
└── Initial impact estimate
↓
Hour 24-72: Vulnerability Notification
├── Technical details
├── Affected versions
├── Mitigation guidance
└── Patch timeline
↓
Day 14: Detailed Report
├── Root cause analysis
├── Full impact assessment
├── Remediation status
└── Lessons learnedTechnical Implementation
Monitoring for Exploited Vulnerabilities
import asyncio
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
class ExploitMonitor:
SOURCES = [
"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
"https://api.vulncheck.com/v3/index/initial-access",
]
async def check_for_exploits(self):
for source in self.SOURCES:
new_exploits = await self.fetch_updates(source)
for exploit in new_exploits:
# Check if our products are affected
affected = await self.check_affected_products(exploit.cve_id)
if affected:
await self.trigger_reporting_workflow(exploit, affected)
async def trigger_reporting_workflow(self, exploit, affected_products):
incident = CRAIncident(
cve_id=exploit.cve_id,
severity=exploit.cvss_score,
affected_products=affected_products,
deadline=datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(hours=24),
status="early_warning_pending",
)
# Alert security team immediately
await self.alert_security_team(incident)
# Start automated reporting
await self.enisa_reporter.submit_early_warning(incident)ENISA Report Generator
class ENISAReportGenerator:
def generate_early_warning(self, incident):
return {
"report_type": "early_warning",
"timestamp": datetime.utcnow().isoformat(),
"manufacturer": {
"name": "Your Company",
"eu_contact": "security@company.eu",
},
"vulnerability": {
"cve_id": incident.cve_id,
"severity": incident.severity,
"actively_exploited": True,
"exploitation_details": incident.exploit_description,
},
"affected_products": [
{
"name": p.name,
"versions": p.affected_versions,
"estimated_users": p.user_count,
"regions": p.deployment_regions,
}
for p in incident.affected_products
],
"initial_mitigation": incident.temporary_mitigation,
"expected_patch_date": incident.estimated_patch_date,
}Deadline Tracking Dashboard
# Prometheus alerting for reporting deadlines
groups:
- name: cra-reporting
rules:
- alert: CRAReportingDeadlineApproaching
expr: (cra_incident_deadline_timestamp - time()) < 7200 # 2 hours remaining
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: "CRA ENISA report due in {{ $value | humanizeDuration }}"
- alert: CRAReportingDeadlineMissed
expr: (cra_incident_deadline_timestamp - time()) < 0
labels:
severity: page
annotations:
summary: "CRA ENISA reporting deadline MISSED for incident {{ $labels.cve_id }}"Key Requirements
- 24/7 monitoring — vulnerabilities don’t wait for business hours
- Automated SBOM scanning — know immediately when a CVE affects your products
- Pre-written templates — don’t draft reports under time pressure
- Clear escalation paths — who approves ENISA submissions?
- Drill regularly — practice the 24-hour workflow quarterly
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