VulnAlerts - Customized CVE Alerts straight to your Slack Channel

How to Use?

• Create an Incoming Webhook on Slack
• Goto Repository Settings -> Secrets -> Add a New Secret
• Enter SLACK_WEBHOOK in the Secret Name and your slack webhook in the value.
• Add CPEs of the products that you want to monitor for vulnerabilities in the cpe.txt file. NVD CPE Search
• Create new workflow in .github/workflows/alerts.yml
  ```
  name: VulnAlerts

on:
schedule:

- cron:  '15 * */1 * *'

jobs:
alert:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: y-mehta/vulnalerts@master
  env:
    SLACK_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK }}
- name: done
  run: echo 'done'

```

• That’s it. You’ll receive daily alerts on the selected slack channel.

Note: No need to enter full CPE unless you want to monitor specific version. apple:icloud or atlassian:sourcetree will do the job.

• Action Schedule can be changed in .github/workflows/alerts.yml if needed. Follow crontab format(@daily,@monthly etc. aren’t supported by Github Actions)

How it Works?

• GitHub Actions WorkFlow is automatically triggered based on schedule.
• CVE-Recent JSON Vulnerability Feed is fetched from the NVD.
• The JSON feed is processed to check if any CPEs mentioned in cpe.txt are present in the Feed.
• After processing is done, It’ll send the message to Slack Incoming Webhook.

Sample Alert:

Security Warning

• Don’t hardcode your Slack Incoming Webhook URL into the python file.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/