GistSight

A client for gathering vulnerability-related information from GitHub Gists. The collected data is then sent to the Vulnerability-Lookup API as sightings.

Installation

pipx is an easy way to install and run Python applications in isolated environments. It's easy to install.

$ pipx install GistSight
$ export GISTSIGHT_CONFIG=~/.gistsight/conf.py

With Docker

git clone https://github.com/vulnerability-lookup/GistSight
cd GistSight

# Make sure conf.py exists in the project root before running
docker compose up --build

[!NOTE] The docker-compose.yml expects a conf.py file in the root directory. You can create it manually or copy the provided example:

$ cp gistsight/conf_sample.py conf.py

Collecting new Gists

$ GistSight
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No vulnerabilities found.
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No vulnerabilities found.
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Gist: https://gist.github.com/voidvxvt/719c34da30a644b822765729be648985
Created At: 2025-01-06T18:43:12+00:00
Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-26828
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Pushing sighting to Vulnerability-Lookup…
{'type': 'seen', 'source': 'https://gist.github.com/voidvxvt/719c34da30a644b822765729be648985', 'vulnerability': 'CVE-2021-26828', 'creation_timestamp': datetime.datetime(2025, 1, 6, 18, 43, 12, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)}
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License

GistSight is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3

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Copyright (C) 2025-2026 Cédric Bonhomme - https://github.com/cedricbonhomme