vulnmine 1.0.5

Commandline Start Options

Here are the possible options when starting Vulnmine:

vulnmine.py  [-h] [--version] [-l Logging] [-a Action] [-y Years] [-w Workdir]

-h --help             Help information
-l --loglevel         Set desired verbosity for logging:
                        'debug','info','warning','error','critical'
-a --action           Desired action to perform:
                            'rd_sccm_hosts'   Read SCCM host inventory data
                            'rd_sccm_sft'     Read SCCM software inventory
                            'rd_cpe'          Read/parse NIST CPE
                                                 vendor/product file
                            'rd_cve'          Read/parse NIST CVE
                                                 vulnerability data
                            'match_vendors'   Match SCCM publishers to NIST
                                                 CPE vendors
                            'match_sft'       Match SCCM software to NIST CPE
                                                 software
                            'upd_hots_vulns'  Produce consolidated host / vulnerable
                                                 software data
                            'output_stats'    Output statistics
-y --years            Number of yrs of CVE vulnerability data to download. There is
                        one file for each year
-w --workdir          Specify the working directory

Production mode

If no parameters are specified, then Vulnmine runs in production mode:

• The main vulnmine.py starts and sets up an endless schedule loop.

• The loop fires once daily by default.

• Each day Vulnmine:

  • Reads the SCCM inventory data files (UTF16 csv format) in the its CSV directory.

  • Downloads updated NVD feed files.

  • Processes the SCCM and NVD data.

  • Produces output JSON files into the same csv directory.

Where to get more information

Vulnmine is on Github: https://github.com/lorgor/vulnmine And on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/lorgor/vulnmine/

The docs directory has the full Vulnmine documentation.

To install vulnmine directly

Vulnmine can be installed using pip.

pip install [-U] python-dev vulnmine

On Ubuntu at least, the python-dev library must be installed on the system.

Change log

1.0

Initial release

1.3.0

Alpha release of .INI configuration support, publish to PyPI

1.4.0

Beta release