CVE Half-Day Watcher is a security tool designed to highlight the risk of early exposure of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in the public domain. It leverages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) API to identify recently published CVEs with GitHub references before an official patch is released. By doing so, CVE Half-Day Watcher aims to underscore the window of opportunity for attackers to “harvest” this information and develop exploits. This tool is a proof of concept, ready to be built upon and extended.
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CVE Half-Day Watcher scans the NVD for newly pushed CVEs and checks for any GitHub references such as commits, pull requests (PRs), or issues linked to these CVEs. It then verifies if the commit/PR has been included in a release on GitHub (currently for issue it skips this check). If a release including the fix is not available, it flags the CVE to indicate a possible “half-day” vulnerability scenario, where the vulnerability is known but not yet patched.
Before you begin, ensure you have Python installed on your system. Then, clone the repository and install the dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/Aqua-Nautilus/CVE-Half-Day-Watcher.git
cd CVE-Half-Day-Watcher
pip install -r requirements.txt To use CVE Half-Day Watcher, you will need a GitHub token (without permissions).
python scan_nvd.py --github_token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN [--days DAYS] [--min_stars MIN_STARS] An example of the results from November 2, 2023.
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