Severity alone is close to useless for ordering work: roughly 60% of CVEs
score 7.0 or above. Until now EPSS and KEV came from nuclei's template
metadata, frozen at authoring time, so a finding could never learn that the
world had changed around it.
Two keyless feeds now land nightly and re-score every finding already stored:
EPSS (368k CVEs) and the CISA KEV catalog (1,695). A feed that fails to
download leaves its table untouched, so an install with no egress keeps
ranking. CISA is authoritative for is_kev on anything carrying a CVE.
exploitation.py judges each finding the way interest/ judges hosts, and the
signals that matter cross dimensions no other tool joins:
ransom_path a KEV ransomware CVE on a host whose ports also expose
a service ransomware crews reach for
fresh_exploit a public exploit published after the scan that found it
untestable no scanner template covers this CVE, so no scan can
clear it -- BlueKeep, EternalBlue and HTTP/2 Rapid Reset
all report false here
reachable answering directly, with no CDN or WAF in front
vulnx is an optional ceiling, never the floor: per-CVE exploits and their
links, template coverage, internet-wide population and bounty activity,
cached forever. Measured at 10 requests a minute keyless with no Retry-After,
so the client paces off the remaining header and can only ever be a
background cache-fill.
Alerting is delta-only, on the same rule as new findings: intel_signals is
upserted so created_at is when a finding first earned a signal, and repeated
refreshes alert nothing.
The nightly download is opt-out (instance_settings.threat_intel_auto_sync).
It gates the beat task and the worker warm-up only -- Refresh now always
works, so nobody is stuck with a scheduled outbound request they did not ask
for. Bounty activity renders only under CAP_HACKERONE; the gate is
presentational, so switching mode never loses data.
Every count is a promise: coverage, the query it compiles to, and the rows
its sheet opens were verified equal across all five signals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PwxTAkPFUXPHPvdYT8Rhtm
- Added `clean_name` function to `validation.py` for name validation with max length.
- Simplified docstrings in `dnsx` client, parser, and service files for clarity.
- Enhanced error handling in `ViewDNSService` to prevent disabling keys on rate limits.
- Improved WHOIS service to handle concurrent inserts gracefully with integrity checks.
- Updated `Settings` class in worker config to inherit from `BaseAppSettings`.
- Added new dependencies in `pyproject.toml` for `apprise` and `cryptography`.
