ghsa-cli 2026.5.1

CLI for efficiently coordinating vulnerability reports and remediations with GitHub Security Advisories (GHSA)

ghsa-cli

CLI for efficiently coordinating vulnerability reports and remediations with GitHub Security Advisories (GHSA).

Install from PyPI (python -m pip install ghsa-cli) and authenticate using a GH_TOKEN environment variable within the shell session with a GitHub personal access token. Repository automatically resolves to the upstream/origin remote of the current working directory git repository or can be set manually via GH_REPO or --repo.

Below are some common workflows this tool is designed for:

Assigning yourself as 'Coordinator' for a ticket

Assign yourself as a coordinator. The alias me works for options specified via the command line to mean the currently authenticated user.

ghsa-cli credit GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx --coordinator me

Adding collaborators by name

Adds collaborators by name, either teams or individual users.

ghsa-cli collaborators GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx --login sethmlarson
ghsa-cli collaborators GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx --team python/fuzzers

Moving a GHSA to a public GitHub issue

Prompts the user with a new GitHub issue templated with the same title and description as the current ticket. By default, closes the GHSA if the GHSA isn't already closed.

ghsa-cli move-to-issue GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

You can skip closing the GHSA after the issue templating page is opened by passing --no-close.

Listing open GHSAs where you are assigned 'Coordinator'

Useful for prioritizing which ticket you should work on next depending on their state, age, and whether a fix has been developed and reviewed.

ghsa-cli list --coordinator me

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┓
┃ id                  ┃ title ┃ state  ┃ age  ┃ cvss ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━┩
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ triage │ 10d  │ 6.5  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 16d  │ 7.0  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 21d  │ 2.0  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 60d  │ 2.0  │
└─────────────────────┴───────┴────────┴──────┴──────┘

Prioritizing reports based on CVSS or age

ghsa-cli list --sort cvss age

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┓
┃ id                  ┃ title ┃ state  ┃ age  ┃ cvss ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━┩
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 16d  │ 7.0  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ triage │ 10d  │ 6.5  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 60d  │ 2.0  │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ ...   │ draft  │ 21d  │ 2.0  │
└─────────────────────┴───────┴────────┴──────┴──────┘

Searching for reports based on text

Use the search command and supply text to search through advisory titles and descriptions.

ghsa-cli search crlf

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ id                  ┃ state  ┃ title                                             ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ closed │ IMAP Protocol Command Injection (CRLF) in imaplib │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ closed │ POP3 Protocol Command Injection (CRLF) in poplib  │
└─────────────────────┴────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Creating reports and integrating with CVE APIs

CVE APIs require a CVE Services API key. Set the CVE_USERNAME, CVE_CNA, and CVE_API_KEY environment variables to access properties about CVE IDs and records.

Use the --columns parameter with list to add additional columns to the report.

ghsa-cli list --state triage draft closed --columns id state cve_id cve_state

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ id                  ┃ state  ┃ cve_id         ┃ cve_state ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ triage │                │           │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ closed │ CVE-YYY-YYYY   │ published │
│ GHSA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx │ draft  │ CVE-YYY-YYYY   │ reserved  │
└─────────────────────┴────────┴────────────────┴───────────┘

Creating a template CVE Record from a GHSA

The command cve-record will create a template CVE record from the information available in a GHSA for use with a program like Vulnogram. This makes creating a CVE record quick and transfers information like credits and CVSS automatically.

ghsa-cli cve-record GHSA-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz

{
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.2",
  "cveMetadata": {
    "cveId": "CVE-YYYY-XXXX",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "containers": {
    "cna": {
      "title": "...",
      "affected": [
        {
          "vendor": "Python Software Foundation",
          "product": "CPython",
          "repo": "https://github.com/python/cpython",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "versionType": "python",
              "version": "0"
            }
          ],
          "modules": []
        }
      ]
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