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# Osquery 5.8.1 | Process auditing, stats, and additional tables.
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Osquery 5.8 introduces process auditing on Windows, statistics for live queries, and additional tables. 🟣 Openness is a key Fleet [value](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#values). We welcome contributions to Fleet and find ways to contribute to other open-source projects. When you support Fleet, you are also contributing to projects like osquery. Let’s take a look at the changes in this latest release.
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Please note that osquery 5.8 has already been pushed to Fleet’s stable and edge auto-update channels.
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## Windows `process_etw_events` table
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This PR introduces POTE ([Programmable OS Tracing Engine](https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/7826)) framework + a new windows `evented` table called `etw_process_events` which is built on top of POTE. The primary purpose of this new `evented` table is to audit process creation and termination on Windows. Having POTE in place will simplify the addition of future `evented` tables as POTE provides a simplified mechanism to create ETW-based Event publishers.
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The Windows `process_etw_events` table brings osquery towards parity with System Monitor (Sysmon). Sysmon is a common add-on for Windows logging. With Sysmon, you can detect malicious activity by tracking code behavior and network traffic. Sysmon is part of the Sysinternals package and is owned by Microsoft.
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_Fleetie, Marcos contributed this [pull request](https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/7821) to the osquery project._
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## Live query statistics
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This PR creates a new top-level `stats` key when writing a distributed query response. This includes the data in `QueryPerformance` class, indexed by the query ID in the server's read endpoint. A new stats JSON subkey exposes the `stats` key in the distributed query response. Performance stats are not stored. When a query executes, the stats for that execution are returned.
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The addition of `stats` unlocks future work in Fleet that will enable performance stats for live queries and policies.
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_Fleetie, Artemis contributed this [pull request](https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/7920) to the osquery project._
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## Add `pid_with_namespace` for `yara` table
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On October 25, the OpenSSL project team [announced](https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2022-October/000238.html) a security fix for a critical vulnerability in OpenSSL version 3.x. The patch was released on November 1, 2022. Akamai released a [blog post](http://akamai.com/blog/security-research/openssl-vulnerability-how-to-effectively-prepare#query) with a [YARA](https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara)-based rule, helping Sysadmins find processes running with vulnerable OpenSSL versions. OpenSSL process identification works well for processes on the host OS but breaks down for processes inside containers.
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This change adds the `pid_with_namespace` column to the YARA table in osquery, allowing for querying within containers using the `yara `table.
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## `Unit_file_state` column in `systemd_units` table
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This change adds a new column to the `systemd_units` table to determine if a `systemd` service is in one of several enabled states, such as `enabled` or `masked`. This allows for discovering running processes that could have potential security implications. Previously, determining if a service was enabled was not possible in osquery.
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_Fleetie, Artemis contributed this [pull request](https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/7895) to the osquery project._
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## `Bpf_process_events_v2` table
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An initial experiment has been included, called `linuxevents`. This PR adds a new `bpf_process_events_v2` table, a better, container-aware version of the built-in `bpf_process_events`. The new functionality is considered experimental and must be explicitly enabled with `--experiment_list=linuxevents`.
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Key features:
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1. The table now traces internal kernel structures (i.e., task_struct) to capture all the data. We no longer need to trace system calls and keep track of file descriptors.
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2. Significantly lower memory and CPU usage.
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3. Container aware: contains both the container ID and container backend name (currently only supports podman).
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4. Uses the BTF kernel debug symbols: no kernel headers required!
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## macOS `secureboot` table
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This PR adds support for macOS (Intel-based) hardware that have a secure enclave and support secure boot. This PR extends the secureboot schema from boolean to the following: Secure mode for Intel-based macOS: 0 disabled, 1 full security, 2 medium security.
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## Linux `kernel_keys` table
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This PR adds a new table called `kernel_keys` for Linux. This table exposes the content of the file /proc/keys,
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this file exposes a list of the keys for which the reading thread has view permission, providing various information about each key.
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## Cached_memory column in `docker_container_stats`
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The docker container memory usage is not in sync with docker CLI which subtracts the cached memory from the used memory. A new `cached_memory` column has been added to `docker_container_stats` to retrieve the cached container memory to provide more detailed information about container memory usage.
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<meta name="category" value="releases">
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<meta name="authorFullName" value="JD Strong">
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<meta name="authorGitHubUsername" value="spokanemac">
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<meta name="publishedOn" value="2023-03-14">
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<meta name="articleTitle" value="osquery 5.8.1 | Process auditing, stats, and additional tables">
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