# Vulnerability Alert — New CVEs by Product & Severity (`m_ctim/vulnerability-alert`) Actor

Search recently published CVEs by keyword (product/vendor), severity, or date range. Official NVD data, for security teams and MSPs tracking vulnerabilities in their stack.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/vulnerability-alert.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Vulnerability Alert — New CVEs by Product & Severity

Search recently published CVEs by keyword (product/vendor), CVSS severity,
or date range. Get back the description, severity score, affected
products, and a link to the full NVD record — most recently published
first.

Built for security teams and MSPs tracking vulnerabilities in the products
they run or support, without checking NVD by hand.

### Input

```json
{
  "keyword": "wordpress",
  "severity": "CRITICAL",
  "daysBack": 14,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `keyword` | string | Free-text search across CVE descriptions. Leave blank to skip. |
| `severity` | string | Minimum CVSS v3 tier: `all`, `LOW`, `MEDIUM`, `HIGH`, or `CRITICAL`. Default `all`. |
| `daysBack` | number | How many days back from today to search, by publish date. Default `14`, max `120` (NVD's own per-request limit). |
| `maxResults` | number | Max CVEs to return, most recently published first. Default `25`, max `100`. |

### Output

One record per CVE:

```json
{
  "cveId": "CVE-2026-73033",
  "published": "2026-08-10T21:17:26.610",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-10T21:17:26.610",
  "vulnStatus": "Analyzed",
  "description": "...",
  "baseScore": 6.5,
  "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
  "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
  "affectedProducts": ["Sucuri:sucuri-wordpress-plugin"],
  "nvdUrl": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73033"
}
```

`baseScore`/`baseSeverity`/`vectorString` are `null` for CVEs the NVD hasn't
scored yet (status `Received` or `Awaiting Analysis`) — that's expected, not
missing data.

### How it works

Direct calls to the official [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/) CVE API 2.0
(`services.nvd.nist.gov`) — the U.S. government's public vulnerability
database. No API key, no proxy, no login, no scraping.

### Pricing note

Billed per **search**, not per CVE returned — one charge whether the
search returns 1 CVE or 100.

### Related products

Looking for other risk-monitoring signals?

- [Product Recall Alert](https://github.com/timmKal01/product-recall-alert) — FDA drug/food/device recalls
- [Field Operations Risk Briefing](https://github.com/timmKal01/field-operations-risk-briefing) — weather + space-weather conditions by location

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Free-text search across CVE descriptions (e.g. "wordpress", "openssl", "cisco ios"). Leave blank to skip keyword filtering.

## `severity` (type: `string`):

Minimum CVSS v3 severity tier.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How many days back from today to search, by CVE publish date.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of CVEs to return, most recently published first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "severity": "all",
  "daysBack": 14,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/vulnerability-alert").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/vulnerability-alert").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call m_ctim/vulnerability-alert --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/vulnerability-alert"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/SEtOkhVf2rkgWwMVB/builds/ZHrgMyVqBbPtkZ8qC/openapi.json