How I monitor CVEs daily with a 50-line Python script
Ayi Nedjimi shares how he monitors CVEs relevant to his clients using a simple Python script. The script filters through daily CVE feeds to provide only the most pertinent information. It has been running successfully for over a year, sending alerts via Telegram.
- ▪The script filters CVEs to focus on those relevant to specific technologies like FortiGate and Windows Server.
- ▪It uses RSS feeds for daily monitoring, which are easier to parse compared to the NVD API.
- ▪The script has been operational for over a year without significant issues.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3944946) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Ayi NEDJIMI Posted on May 27 How I monitor CVEs daily with a 50-line Python script #python #security #devops #automation Every morning I get a Telegram message with the CVEs that matter to my clients. Not the 150+ CVEs published daily by NIST — just the ones relevant to the technologies my consulting clients actually run: FortiGate, SonicWall, Palo Alto, pfSense, Windows Server, and a handful of others. The script that does this is 50 lines of Python.
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