This is the new home of "pyexploitdb".

Shane William Scott

pyexploitdb builds and maintains local CVE↔EDB indexes from the official exploit-db repository with a focus on resilience and observability.

• Validates on-disk caches and normalises mappings to keep indexes trustworthy.
• Rebuilds quickly by parsing files_exploits.csv first and only scraping missing CVEs with bounded concurrency.
• Ships with a practical smoke-test suite (python -m tests.smoke_test) so releases can be verified before publishing.

CPE database, indexes and mappings

pip install pyexploitdb

Note: This assumes pip is for your python3 environment. Use pip3 if pip is for your python2 environment.

from pyexploitdb import PyExploitDb
exploit_db = PyExploitDb()
exploit_db.debug = False
exploit_db.open_file()
results = exploit_db.search_cve("CVE-2018-14592")
for exploit in results:
    print(f"{exploit['id']} -> {exploit['file']}")

search_cve returns a list of dictionaries (one per matching exploit). The library raises pyexploitdb.PyExploitDbError when required data is missing or network/git operations fail after retrying.

To rebuild the CVE caches from scratch without hammering exploit-db, metadata is extracted from files_exploits.csv first and any missing CVEs fall back to concurrent (throttled) scraping:

from pyexploitdb import PyExploitDb

with PyExploitDb() as exploit_db:
    exploit_db.update_db(workers=6)  # adjust workers to control parallel HTTP fetches

Run the practical smoke tests before publishing to PyPI:

python -m tests.smoke_test

CVE-2018-1459 Found Exploit DB Id: 45447 File: ./exploit-database/exploits/php/webapps/45447.txt Date: 2018-09-24 Author: Haboob Team Platform: webapps Type: php Port: 80 {'edbid': '45447', 'exploit': './exploit-database/exploits/php/webapps/45447.txt', 'date': '2018-09-24', 'author': 'Haboob Team', 'platform': 'webapps', 'type': 'php', 'port': '80'}

Based on fork from https://github.com/GoVanguard/pyExploitDb by Shane Scott. Originally based on fork of cve_searchsploit by Andrea Fioraldi.