Red Hat CVE Report Generator (python version)
Original Author: Brandon Williams, updated by Evan Bills to use Python
Description: This utility makes calls to the Red Hat CVE database to retrieve the CVE details.
Usage: This script takes a list of CVEs as input and produces a report containing details, statements, and links to any related errata.The input file should be plain text with one CVE per line. e.g.:
CVE-2015-0409
CVE-2015-0411
CVE-2015-0432
...
Syntax: redhat_cve_report.py CVE_List.txt (or other file to use as input)
CVE_List.txt contains a sample CVE List CVE_Report.txt contains a sample report
Version History:
Version 0.1 - February 19, 2015
- Initial version
Version 0.1.1 - February 19, 2015
- Fixed issue where statements weren't being reported correctly
- Fixed issue where strings with "**" were causing directory information to be printed instead of the asterisk characters themselves
Version 0.1.2 - February 23, 2015
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Converted script to use Python's Beautiful Soup and requests
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If you are missing either of those modules, install with:
'pip install requests' or 'pip install bs4' #for Beautiful Soup