CVEasy¶ ↑

• Source: github.com/mephux/CVEasy

• More: www.packetport.net

CVEasy is a ruby interface for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database at cve.mitre.org. This project is mostly a proof of concept and experiment highlighting how truly powerful nokogiri (nokogiri.rubyforge.org) can be.

• Search by Keywords

• Search by CVE Number and Year.

• Return CVE Reference Links

sudo gem install CVEasy

You can use CVEasy to search for a particular CVE by using the following:

CVEasy::Query.new(:year => '2008', :cve => '1') do |cve|
  puts cve.name            #=> "CVE-2008-0001"
  puts cve.description     #=> "FS in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.16, and 2.6.23.x before...."
  puts cve.references      #=> ['http://secunia.com/advisories/28664', 'http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39672']
  puts cve.status          #=> "Candidate"
  puts cve.phase           #=> "Assigned (20071203)"
  puts cve.assigned_at     #=> "Candidate assigned on 20071203 and proposed on N/A"
end

If you want to search for CVE by a keyword use the following:

CVEasy::Query.new(:keyword => 'ruby') do |cve|
  puts cve.name
  puts cve.description
  puts cve.url
end

You can take the above example even further by querying the returned results:

CVEasy::Query.new(:keyword => 'ruby') do |cve|
  puts cve.name
  cve.more do |info|
    puts info.references.inspect
    puts info.status
    puts info.phase
    puts info.assigned_at
  end
end

• nokogiri nokogiri.rubyforge.org >= 1.4.0

• Add Tests

• Add Documentation

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