cve-flash.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import os
import urllib
from urllib import request
import gzip
import io 
import dateutil
from dateutil import parser

# Grab and consume the latest CVE feed from NIST
headers ={'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11'}

nvdrecent = urllib.request.Request('https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/json/cve/1.1/nvdcve-1.1-recent.json.gz', headers = headers)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(nvdrecent)
buf = io.BytesIO(response.read())
f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
data = json.load(f)

# Pull the list of items together and grab the fields we need
list(data)
cves = data['CVE_Items']
cvenum = int(data['CVE_data_numberOfCVEs'])
date_posted = dateutil.parser.parse(data['CVE_data_timestamp'])
# Format the date the way we want it
date_posted = date_posted.strftime("%B %d %Y")

goodcves = []

# Sort the list
sortedcves = sorted(cves, key=lambda k: dateutil.parser.parse(k.get('publishedDate', '')), reverse=True)

# Remove rejected items
goodcves = []
for cve in sortedcves:
  description = cve.get('cve')['description']['description_data'][0]['value']
  if 'REJECT' in description:
    pass
  else:
     goodcves.append(cve) 
# Snag the latest CVES from our list
lastfivecves = goodcves[0:6]

# Set up the array
output = []

# Iterate through the CVEs to get the data we want
for cve in lastfivecves[0:5]:
    zdate = cve.get('publishedDate')
    cvedate = dateutil.parser.parse((cve.get('publishedDate')))
    cvedate = cvedate.strftime("%B %d %Y")
    description = cve.get('cve')['description']['description_data'][0]['value']
    CVE_id = cve.get('cve')['CVE_data_meta']['ID']
    description = description + " This is " + CVE_id + " published on " + cvedate
    redirectionurl = "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=" + CVE_id
    # Place all of our output data into a variable
    export_dict = {"uid": CVE_id,"updateDate": zdate, "titleText": CVE_id, "mainText": description, "redirectionUrl": redirectionurl} 
    # Write variable data into our array
    output.append(export_dict)

# Write everything out to our json file. 
with open('cve.json','w') as json_file:
  json.dump(output, json_file, indent=4)