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0xMarcio c8f213af17 Find this year's PoCs within the hour and stop indexing bare shells
The daily sweep found new repositories within 2 to 9 hours where their
name carried the CVE, and up to 30 hours where only the README did. The
hourly run now searches repositories pushed in the last day for this
year's and last year's CVEs, reads their READMEs and applies the same
classifier, so a PoC published this morning is on the site within the
hour. The daily run keeps covering every year and the CVE record
references; the hourly run skips those, and skipping leaves the delta
checkpoint alone.

A sample of two hundred indexed repositories held six with nothing in
them: an empty README or none, a placeholder, a link to a paywall. A
repository with no directory, no code, no file named for the CVE or as a
PoC, and a README with no code block, command, request or real write-up
is bare, and neither discovery nor the daily audit keeps it. The audit
now reads each repository's README and root to judge that, and sweeps
4,000 repositories a day instead of 1,750, since one link in eight
pointed at a deleted repository under the fortnightly cycle.

The upstream PoC-in-GitHub collection is judged daily rather than
weekly: fourteen of the last thirty-nine additions came from it, which
means it finds repositories our own search does not.
2026-09-04 03:46:23 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Prune PoC links to deleted repositories and refresh the metadata the site shows."""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import sys
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable
from urllib import error, request
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
from update_cves import (
readme_text,
repo_is_bare,
GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL,
kev_badge,
USER_AGENT,
GitHubClient,
github_repo_from_url,
http_json,
is_blacklisted_repo,
load_blacklist,
replace_section,
section_links,
)
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
CVES = ROOT / "cves"
INDEX = ROOT / "index"
STATE_FILE = ROOT / ".github" / "link_audit_state.json"
GITHUB_LIST = INDEX / "github.txt"
REFERENCE_LIST = INDEX / "references.txt"
REPO_META = INDEX / "repo_meta.json"
KEV_FILE = INDEX / "kev.json"
KEV_URL = (
"https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/"
"known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json"
)
GITHUB_SECTION = "#### Github"
REFERENCE_SECTION = "#### Reference"
SECTION_EMPTY = {
GITHUB_SECTION: "No PoCs found on GitHub currently.",
REFERENCE_SECTION: "No PoCs from references.",
}
GITHUB_EMPTY = "No PoCs found on GitHub currently."
BATCH = 20
def collect_repositories() -> tuple[dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]], set[str]]:
"""Map prunable links to their entries, and name every repository the site shows.
Only the GitHub section is prunable; a reference comes from the CVE record
itself, so it stays even when it rots. Both sections need star counts.
"""
prunable: dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]] = {}
referenced: set[str] = set()
for path in sorted(CVES.glob("[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]/CVE-*.md")):
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
for url in section_links(text, GITHUB_SECTION):
full_name = github_repo_from_url(url)
if full_name and "/" in full_name:
prunable.setdefault(full_name, []).append((path, url))
referenced.add(full_name)
for url in section_links(text, REFERENCE_SECTION):
full_name = github_repo_from_url(url)
if full_name and "/" in full_name:
referenced.add(full_name)
return prunable, referenced
REPO_FIELDS = (
"{ nameWithOwner stargazerCount pushedAt "
'readmeMd: object(expression: "HEAD:README.md") { ... on Blob { text } } '
'readmeUpper: object(expression: "HEAD:README.MD") { ... on Blob { text } } '
'readmeRst: object(expression: "HEAD:README.rst") { ... on Blob { text } } '
'readmeBare: object(expression: "HEAD:README") { ... on Blob { text } } '
'root: object(expression: "HEAD:") { ... on Tree { entries { name type } } } }'
)
def survey(client: GitHubClient, names: list[str]) -> tuple[set[str], dict[str, list]]:
"""Return the repositories to drop, and stars/last push for the rest.
Dropped means GitHub reports NOT_FOUND, or the repository is bare: no code,
no directory, no artifact and a README with nothing runnable in it, which
the discovery gate would reject today. Anything else, a network error or a
throttle or an unexpected response, leaves the repository out of both
results, so an audit failure never drops a link.
"""
batches = [names[index : index + BATCH] for index in range(0, len(names), BATCH)]
missing: set[str] = set()
metadata: dict[str, list] = {}
checked = 0
def check(batch: list[str]) -> tuple[set[str], dict[str, list]]:
aliases = " ".join(
f"r{index}: repository(owner: {json.dumps(name.split('/', 1)[0])}, "
f"name: {json.dumps(name.split('/', 1)[1])}) "
f"{REPO_FIELDS}"
for index, name in enumerate(batch)
)
payload = http_json(
GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL,
headers=client.headers,
data={"query": "query { " + aliases + " rateLimit { remaining resetAt } }"},
)
gone: set[str] = set()
for entry in payload.get("errors") or []:
path = entry.get("path") or []
if str(entry.get("type") or "") == "NOT_FOUND" and path:
index = str(path[0])[1:]
if index.isdigit() and int(index) < len(batch):
gone.add(batch[int(index)])
found: dict[str, list] = {}
data = payload.get("data") or {}
for index, name in enumerate(batch):
repo = data.get(f"r{index}")
if not repo:
continue
if repo_is_bare(repo, readme_text(repo)):
gone.add(name)
continue
pushed = str(repo.get("pushedAt") or "")[:10]
found[name.lower()] = [
int(repo.get("stargazerCount") or 0),
pushed,
]
return gone, found
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as executor:
futures = {executor.submit(check, batch): batch for batch in batches}
for future in as_completed(futures):
batch = futures[future]
try:
gone, found = future.result()
missing |= gone
metadata.update(found)
except Exception as exc:
print(f"Kept {len(batch)} repositories after a failed check: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
checked += len(batch)
if checked % 5000 < len(batch):
print(f"Checked {checked} of {len(names)} repositories")
return missing, metadata
def save_metadata(metadata: dict[str, list], alive: set[str], *, dry_run: bool) -> int:
"""Merge this run's readings over the stored ones and forget deleted repositories."""
try:
stored = json.loads(REPO_META.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
stored = {}
stored.update(metadata)
stored = {name: value for name, value in stored.items() if name.lower() in alive}
if not dry_run:
REPO_META.write_text(
json.dumps(stored, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")) + "\n",
encoding="utf-8",
)
return len(stored)
def prune_entries(
references: dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]],
missing: Iterable[str],
*,
dry_run: bool,
) -> tuple[int, int, set[str]]:
dead_by_path: dict[Path, set[str]] = {}
dead_urls: set[str] = set()
for full_name in missing:
for path, url in references.get(full_name, []):
dead_by_path.setdefault(path, set()).add(url)
dead_urls.add(url)
for path, urls in sorted(dead_by_path.items()):
with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
text = handle.read()
kept = [url for url in section_links(text, GITHUB_SECTION) if url not in urls]
updated, changed = replace_section(text, GITHUB_SECTION, kept, GITHUB_EMPTY)
if changed and not dry_run:
with path.open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
handle.write(updated)
removals = sum(len(urls) for urls in dead_by_path.values())
return len(dead_by_path), removals, dead_urls
def prune_inventory(dead_urls: set[str], *, dry_run: bool) -> int:
if not GITHUB_LIST.exists() or not dead_urls:
return 0
lines = GITHUB_LIST.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
kept = [line for line in lines if line.rsplit(" - ", 1)[-1].strip() not in dead_urls]
if not dry_run and len(kept) != len(lines):
GITHUB_LIST.write_text("\n".join(kept) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
return len(lines) - len(kept)
def collect_references() -> dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]]:
"""Every link that is not a GitHub repository, and where it appears."""
references: dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]] = {}
for path in sorted(CVES.glob("[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]/CVE-*.md")):
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
for header in (REFERENCE_SECTION, GITHUB_SECTION):
for url in section_links(text, header):
if not github_repo_from_url(url):
references.setdefault(url, []).append((path, header))
return references
def interleave_by_host(urls: list[str]) -> list[str]:
"""Round-robin the hosts so a slice does not hammer one server in a burst."""
hosts: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
for url in urls:
host = urlsplit(url).netloc.lower()
hosts.setdefault(host, []).append(url)
queues = list(hosts.values())
ordered: list[str] = []
while queues:
for queue in list(queues):
ordered.append(queue.pop(0))
if not queue:
queues.remove(queue)
return ordered
def dead_references(urls: list[str], *, workers: int, timeout: int) -> set[str]:
"""URLs the web answers 404 or 410 for. Everything else keeps its link."""
dead: set[str] = set()
checked = 0
def check(url: str) -> tuple[str, bool]:
headers = {"User-Agent": USER_AGENT, "Accept": "*/*"}
for method in ("HEAD", "GET"):
try:
req = request.Request(url, method=method, headers=headers)
with request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as response:
if method == "GET":
response.read(1)
return url, False
except error.HTTPError as exc:
code = exc.code
exc.close()
# a server that dislikes HEAD is not a server without the page
if method == "GET" or code not in {403, 405, 501}:
return url, code in {404, 410}
except Exception:
# a timeout or a refused connection keeps the link, and asking
# the same unreachable host a second time only doubles the wait
return url, False
return url, False
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=workers) as executor:
for url, gone in executor.map(check, urls):
if gone:
dead.add(url)
checked += 1
if checked % 2000 == 0:
print(f"Checked {checked} of {len(urls)} references")
return dead
def prune_references(
references: dict[str, list[tuple[Path, str]]],
dead: set[str],
*,
dry_run: bool,
) -> tuple[int, int]:
by_path: dict[Path, dict[str, set[str]]] = {}
for url in dead:
for path, header in references.get(url, []):
by_path.setdefault(path, {}).setdefault(header, set()).add(url)
removed = 0
for path, headers in sorted(by_path.items()):
with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
text = path_text = handle.read()
for header, urls in headers.items():
empty = SECTION_EMPTY[header]
kept = [url for url in section_links(text, header) if url not in urls]
removed += len(section_links(text, header)) - len(kept)
text, _ = replace_section(text, header, kept, empty)
if text != path_text and not dry_run:
with path.open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
handle.write(text)
lines = REFERENCE_LIST.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines() if REFERENCE_LIST.exists() else []
kept_lines = [line for line in lines if line.rsplit(" - ", 1)[-1].strip() not in dead]
if not dry_run and len(kept_lines) != len(lines):
REFERENCE_LIST.write_text("\n".join(kept_lines) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
return removed, len(lines) - len(kept_lines)
def refresh_kev(*, dry_run: bool) -> int:
"""Store CISA's known-exploited catalogue: the CVEs attackers actually use.
Keeps only what the page shows, so the whole catalogue costs a few tens of
kilobytes. A failure leaves the previous file in place rather than
dropping the badge off every entry.
"""
try:
payload = http_json(KEV_URL)
except Exception as exc:
print(f"Kept the stored KEV catalogue after a failed fetch: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
return 0
entries = {}
for item in (payload or {}).get("vulnerabilities") or []:
cve_id = str(item.get("cveID") or "").upper()
if cve_id:
entries[cve_id] = [
str(item.get("dateAdded") or "")[:10],
1 if str(item.get("knownRansomwareCampaignUse") or "").lower() == "known" else 0,
]
if entries and not dry_run:
KEV_FILE.write_text(
json.dumps(entries, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")) + "\n",
encoding="utf-8",
)
return len(entries)
KEV_MARKER = "label=CISA%20KEV"
def sync_kev_badges(*, dry_run: bool) -> tuple[int, int]:
"""Put the known-exploited badge on the entries CISA lists, and only those.
The site shows KEV in a search result, but the repository is what most
people read, and nothing in the markdown said a vulnerability was under
active attack.
"""
try:
catalogue = json.loads(KEV_FILE.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
return 0, 0
added = removed = 0
for path in sorted(CVES.glob("[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]/CVE-*.md")):
cve_id = path.stem.upper()
wanted = kev_badge(cve_id, catalogue)
with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
text = handle.read()
has = KEV_MARKER in text
if not wanted and not has:
continue
newline = "\r\n" if "\r\n" in text else "\n"
lines = text.split(newline)
lines = [line for line in lines if KEV_MARKER not in line]
if wanted:
anchor = next((i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if line.strip() == "### Description"), None)
if anchor is None:
continue
insert = anchor
while insert > 0 and not lines[insert - 1].strip():
insert -= 1
lines.insert(insert, wanted)
updated = newline.join(lines)
if updated == text:
continue
added += 1 if wanted else 0
removed += 1 if has and not wanted else 0
if not dry_run:
with path.open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as handle:
handle.write(updated)
return added, removed
def load_state() -> dict:
try:
return json.loads(STATE_FILE.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
return {}
def save_state(state: dict, *, dry_run: bool) -> None:
if dry_run:
return
STATE_FILE.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
STATE_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(state, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
def slice_after(items: list[str], cursor: str, limit: int) -> list[str]:
"""The next `limit` items after the cursor, wrapping once at the end.
A limit of zero, or one larger than the list, means everything -- capped so
that wrapping can never hand back the same item twice.
"""
limit = len(items) if not limit else min(limit, len(items))
start = next((i for i, item in enumerate(items) if item > cursor), 0) if cursor else 0
window = items[start : start + limit]
if len(window) < limit:
window += items[: limit - len(window)]
return window
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="Drop PoC links to deleted repositories and refresh repo_meta.json"
)
parser.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=0, help="Repositories to check this run")
parser.add_argument("--references", type=int, default=0,
help="Reference links to check this run (0 skips them, -1 checks all)")
parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=16, help="Concurrent reference requests")
parser.add_argument("--timeout", type=int, default=8, help="Seconds per reference request")
parser.add_argument("--kev-only", action="store_true", help="Refresh CISA KEV without auditing links")
parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true", help="Report without writing files")
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.kev_only:
print(f"KEV catalogue: {refresh_kev(dry_run=args.dry_run)} known-exploited CVEs")
return 0
references, referenced = collect_repositories()
names = sorted(referenced)
print(
f"{sum(len(v) for v in references.values())} prunable links | "
f"{len(names)} repositories to survey"
)
state = load_state()
scope = slice_after(names, str(state.get("cursor") or ""), args.limit)
print(f"Checking {len(scope)} repositories starting after {state.get('cursor') or 'the beginning'}")
token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN") or os.environ.get("GH_TOKEN") or ""
blocked = {
name for name in references
if is_blacklisted_repo(name, load_blacklist())
}
missing, metadata = survey(
GitHubClient(token),
[name for name in scope if name not in blocked],
)
print(f"{len(missing)} repositories no longer exist or hold nothing runnable")
if blocked:
print(f"Pruning {len(blocked)} explicitly blacklisted repositories")
missing |= blocked
entries, links, dead_urls = prune_entries(references, missing, dry_run=args.dry_run)
inventory = prune_inventory(dead_urls, dry_run=args.dry_run)
alive = {name.lower() for name in names if name not in missing}
tracked = save_metadata(metadata, alive, dry_run=args.dry_run)
state["cursor"] = scope[-1] if scope else ""
print(f"Removed {links} links from {entries} entries | {inventory} inventory lines")
print(f"Refreshed stars and last-push for {len(metadata)} repositories | {tracked} tracked")
if args.references:
references = collect_references()
urls = sorted(references)
window = slice_after(urls, str(state.get("reference_cursor") or ""),
0 if args.references < 0 else args.references)
print(f"Checking {len(window)} of {len(urls)} reference links")
gone = dead_references(
interleave_by_host(window), workers=args.workers, timeout=args.timeout
)
ref_links, ref_lines = prune_references(references, gone, dry_run=args.dry_run)
state["reference_cursor"] = window[-1] if window else ""
print(f"Reference links returning 404 or 410: {len(gone)} | "
f"removed {ref_links} links, {ref_lines} inventory lines")
save_state(state, dry_run=args.dry_run)
print(f"KEV catalogue: {refresh_kev(dry_run=args.dry_run)} known-exploited CVEs")
badged, unbadged = sync_kev_badges(dry_run=args.dry_run)
print(f"KEV badges: {badged} written, {unbadged} withdrawn")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())