/cisa/advisories/search

POST /api/cisa/advisories/search

Price: 20 credits

Search CISA cybersecurity advisories, alerts and malware analysis reports

How to use it

Use this to find CISA's joint advisories and read each hit in full from the same response. advisory_type, year, sector, topic, audience, partner, nation_state_actor, attack_ttp and vendor each narrow to the advisories CISA tags with that term and combine with each other, so advisory_type=cybersecurity_advisory with year=2024 returns only the joint advisories CISA dates to 2024; query is a separate full-text match over the advisory text. attack_ttp takes either the technique name or its ATT&CK id. A label that CISA does not use is rejected rather than ignored. Results come back newest first, and the alerts among them carry a cisa.gov path rather than an alert code as their id.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Full-text query matched against the advisory title and body (examples: "log4j", "ransomware")
• advisory_type string nullable — Restrict to one of CISA's advisory series (one of: "alert", "cybersecurity_advisory", "malware_analysis_report")
• year integer nullable — Calendar year the advisory was released (examples: 2021; min: 1990; max: 2100)
• sector string nullable — Critical infrastructure sector the advisory is tagged with (examples: "Communications Sector")
• topic string nullable — CISA topic the advisory is filed under (examples: "Nation-State Threats")
• audience string nullable — Audience CISA addresses the advisory to (examples: "Federal Government")
• partner string nullable — Co-sealing agency or partner on the advisory (examples: "Federal Bureau of Investigation")
• nation_state_actor string nullable — Nation-state actor the advisory attributes activity to (examples: "Russia")
• attack_ttp string nullable — MITRE ATT&CK tactic or technique the advisory is tagged with, by name or by id (examples: "Brute Force", "T1110")
• vendor string nullable — Vendor the advisory is filed against (examples: "Siemens")
• count integer required — Max result count (examples: 10; min: 1; max: 400)

Response

• @type string (default: "CisaAdvisory")
• id string required
• name string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• advisory_type string nullable
• release_date string nullable
• updated_date string nullable
• description string nullable
• text string nullable
• cve_ids array (default: [])
• attack_technique_ids array (default: [])
• attack_tactic_ids array (default: [])
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CisaAdvisoryTag")
  • name string required
  • values array (default: [])
• related_advisory_ids array (default: [])

Errors

• 422 — sector, topic, audience, partner, nation_state_actor, attack_ttp or vendor does not match any label CISA tags advisories with; spell it as CISA does. Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.