List Available PDFs¶

Publicly available, a request to this endpoint returns a JSON array of basic information for all publicly available published CIS Benchmarks with downloadable PDFs.

Request Type	Visibility
GET	Public

Base URL¶

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/api/vendor/v1

Endpoint¶

/pdf

Request Payload/Parameters¶

Request Headers¶

None

URL Parameters¶

None

Response Payload¶

The response payload is a JSON array of objects noting basic information about all PDFs, such as an ID, Benchmark Title, and PDF Title.

Media Type¶

application/json

Description/Fields¶

Response Element	Description
workbenchId	The unique identifier for a PDF per CIS WorkBench. This ID can be used in subsequent requests to download PDF benchmark content.
pdfTitle	The title of the published PDF, e.g “CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0 - PDF”.
benchmarkTitle	The title of the published benchmark, e.g. “CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0”.
pdfFileName	The filename of the published PDF, e.g “CIS_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_8_Benchmark_v2.0.0.pdf”.

Response Example¶

{
  "Total number of results": 269,
  "PDFs": [
      {
          "workbenchId": "9089",
          "pdfTitle": "CIS CentOS Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0 - PDF",
          "benchmarkTitle": "CIS CentOS Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0",
          "pdfFileName": "CIS_CentOS_Linux_8_Benchmark_v2.0.0.pdf"
      },
      {
          "workbenchId": "9090",
          "pdfTitle": "CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0 - PDF",
          "benchmarkTitle": "CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark v2.0.0",
          "pdfFileName": "CIS_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_8_Benchmark_v2.0.0.pdf"
      }
  ]
}