https://github.com/petermosmans/vulnerability-alerter

Scrapes information on vulnerabilities from US-CERT and parses them for further usage
https://github.com/petermosmans/vulnerability-alerter

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Scrapes information on vulnerabilities from US-CERT and parses them for further usage

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/petermosmans/vulnerability-alerter
• Owner: PeterMosmans
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-09-08T07:37:47.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-23T07:34:09.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-24T18:21:40.541Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 64.5 KB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# vulnerability-alerter

Download the latest data from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) - as presented by the weekly US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins.

It parses the data for further usage, and caches it locally.

Dependencies

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lxml

requests

Installation

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```pip install -r requirements.txt```

Usage

----

```

scraper.py [-h] [-a] [-b BULLETIN] [-c CACHE] [-f]

                  [--from-date FROM_DATE] [-l] [--quiet] [--query QUERY]

                  [--update] [-v] [--year [YEAR]]

Downloads and parses vulnerability summaries from the US-CERT website

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Peter Mosmans [Go Forward]

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -a, --all             retrieve all missing bulletin since 2010 (!)

  -b BULLETIN, --bulletin BULLETIN

                        retrieve a specific bulletin

  -c CACHE, --cache CACHE

                        name of cache directory

  -f, --force           force download, ignore / overwrite cache

  --from-date FROM_DATE

                        starting date (dd-mm-YYYY)

  -l, --low             select low vulnerabilities as well

  --quiet               don't output parsed bulletin

  --query QUERY         specify a query for the title

  --update              retrieve all newest bulletin since last update

  -v, --verbose         increase output verbosity

  --year [YEAR]         retrieve all bulletins for a given year year

```