Searching for vulnerabilities in the Vulners database

In this section, we’ll look at how to find vulnerabilities in the Vulners database.

Vulners – https://pypi.org/project/vulners – is a Python library for the Vulners database, which provides search capability, data retrieval, archiving, and API vulnerability scanning for integration purposes. With this library, you can create security tools and get access to the world’s largest security database. Since the package is available on PyPI, you can use the following command for the installation:

$ pip install vulners

All collections are listed at https://vulners.com/#stats. For example, we could search for vulnerabilities with CVSS High Scores at https://vulners.com/search?query=cvss.score:[6%20TO%2010]%20AND%20order:published.

Figure 11.7: Searching in the Vulners database by CVSS score

Also, we can search for Linux vulnerabilities: https://vulners.com/search?query=bulletinFamily...