The corpus was assembled by a workflow that, in its own words, output every
search result without trying to filter them. Re-checking every link whose
repository does not name its CVE against the current classifier found
27,026 of 32,675 failing it: Shodan cheat sheets under Heartbleed, FTC
robotics team repositories under the jQuery prototype pollution CVE, Docker
images matched through their dependency manifests, and a repository called
"test".
16,613 links whose repository names the CVE were never examined, a
repository that could not be fetched kept all of its links, and one that
calls itself a PoC and names the CVE is kept even where the classifier
says otherwise — deleting a real PoC costs more than leaving a doubtful
one in place.
7,223 entries lighter, and repo_meta.json drops to the 26,755
repositories still referenced.
The audit found 8,404 of the 47,210 linked repositories gone from GitHub,
so 10,065 links across 5,495 entries pointed at 404s. 1,940 entries held
nothing but dead links and now carry no PoCs at all, which drops them from
the search index rather than offering a reader broken results.
The 4,733 entries whose advisory lists no affected version still rendered
an empty shields.io chip; they now read n/a like the product and
vulnerability badges beside them.
Nineteen links across sixteen entries, each pointing at a repository for
an advisory whose number merely starts with the entry's own — CVE-2019-1144
holding CVE-2019-11447-POC, CVE-2023-3883 holding the WinRAR CVE-2023-38831
generator. Every one was re-checked against the classifier and none of
them survives it.
0xMarcio