cve-update-nvd2-native: faster requests with API keys

As per NVD, the public rate limit is 5 requests in 30s (6s delay).
Using an API key increases the limit to 50 requests in 30s (0.6s delay).
However, NVD still recommends sleeping for several seconds so that the
other legitimate requests are serviced without denial or interruption.
Keeping the default sleep at 6 seconds and 2 seconds with an API key.

For failures, the wait time is unchanged (6 seconds).

Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/start-here#RateLimits

Signed-off-by: Dhairya Nagodra <dnagodra@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
index 9ab8dc60504bb2d87333bfbd39441ffdf298dc21..941fca34c6ff45ff8b3a8afdce9137b50f63bfd7 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ def update_db_file(db_tmp_file, d, database_time):
         api_key = d.getVar("NVDCVE_API_KEY") or None
         attempts = int(d.getVar("CVE_DB_UPDATE_ATTEMPTS"))
 
+        # Recommended by NVD
+        wait_time = 6
+        if api_key:
+            wait_time = 2
+
         while True:
             req_args['startIndex'] = index
             raw_data = nvd_request_next(url, attempts, api_key, req_args)
@@ -210,7 +215,7 @@ def update_db_file(db_tmp_file, d, database_time):
                break
 
             # Recommended by NVD
-            time.sleep(6)
+            time.sleep(wait_time)
 
         # Update success, set the date to cve_check file.
         cve_f.write('CVE database update : %s\n\n' % datetime.date.today())