What is cve.now?
A free, public vulnerability feed. It merges the CVE List, GitHub Advisory Database, OSV, NVD, ENISA EUVD, CISA KEV, EPSS and Exploit-DB into one entry per vulnerability, with a short plain-English summary. You can read it as RSS, Atom or JSON Feed, query it as a JSON API, or connect a coding agent to it over MCP.
Is it really free? What is the catch?
It is free, with no login and no API key. Sazabi already merges this data for its own product, so publishing it costs little. Summaries are licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Is there a cve.now token or coin?
No. cve.now has no token or coin. Sazabi did not create one, is not affiliated with any, and does not collect fees from any. Anything claiming otherwise is unrelated to this site.
Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it?
The CVE List, GitHub Advisory Database, OSV, NVD, ENISA EUVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS and Exploit-DB. The CVE List, GitHub advisories, OSV and KEV are checked every few minutes; NVD and EUVD are read every ten minutes, and existing entries are re-checked for EPSS changes a few times a day. The time at the top of this page is the latest polling run, not a fresh read of every source. Historical CVEs come from a complete official CVE List snapshot, and new records and edits are layered on top of it.
What makes a vulnerability critical here?
A vulnerability is critical when it is listed in CISA KEV, when it scores CVSS 9 or higher and affects one of the listed technologies, or when it scores CVSS 7 or higher and its EPSS probability has reached 0.1. The critical feed is deliberately short.
Who writes the summaries? Can I trust them?
A model writes them, and each summary names the model that wrote it. Severity, exploitation status and affected versions come from the source data, not from the model, and the original description is always available on the entry page.
What happens to my lockfile?
It is uploaded to private storage, parsed, and deleted as soon as it has been read. Only the list of package names and versions is kept, to build your report and your stack feed. Anyone with your /stack?s= link can see the vulnerability matches. For a flake.lock, the git commit hashes of its inputs are sent to OSV to look them up.
Does a clean stack report mean I am safe?
No. A report covers known advisories that list affected versions in a supported package ecosystem. It does not cover vulnerabilities without version data, unsupported ecosystems, or anything not yet disclosed. A flake.lock pins source trees, not packages: its commits are matched through OSV, which only knows the projects it tracks, and nixpkgs package CVEs are not checked.
How do I look up one CVE?
Open cve.now/<id> with a CVE, GHSA or OSV id, for example cve.now/CVE-2026-96951. The same entry is available as JSON at /api/v1/entries/<id>.
Is there an API?
Yes. /api/v1/entries lists published entries newest first with cursor pagination, /api/v1/entries/<id> returns one entry (it can redirect to a static copy of the same JSON, so follow redirects), and /api/v1/status reports polling and historical coverage. Any feed URL also accepts format=json, and filter, tech and ecosystem each take several values, such as /feed?tech=nextjs,react&ecosystem=npm. The full reference is at /llms.txt.
How do I get alerts in Slack?
Install Slack's RSS app, then run /feed subscribe followed by any feed URL from the subscribe section in the channel where you want updates.
How do I connect my coding agent?
Add the MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, or paste the setup prompt from the agent section into your agent. Its tools are get_vulnerability, list_feed and check_stack.
How is this different from OSV, NVD or other CVE feeds?
Each of those is one source. cve.now merges all of them into one entry per vulnerability, adds exploitation data from KEV, EPSS and Exploit-DB, keeps a short critical list, and offers feeds for your exact stack plus access for agents.
How do I report a wrong entry or request a technology?
Open an issue at github.com/sazabi/cve.now. There are templates for wrong entries, merge problems, technology requests and source suggestions.
What do the labels on an entry page mean?
CVSS. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System score, 0 to 10, from the source named under it (the CVE publisher, CISA, NVD or GitHub). It scores the worst case: 9.0 and up is Critical, 7.0 High, 4.0 Medium and below that Low. It does not account for how rare the affected setup is, which is why the vendor's own rating can differ.Status. Published records are live. Rejected records were withdrawn by their publisher (often a duplicate or not a vulnerability). Superseded records were replaced by another id, linked from the page.Known exploitation. Listed in CISA KEV means the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has evidence of attacks in the wild. Not listed means only that CISA has not added it: attacks may still be happening or reported elsewhere, and it is not a sign that it is safe.Exposure. Actively exploited: CISA lists it as exploited. Default setups: reachable over the network with no login, no user action and no special configuration. Specific setups only: it needs a non-default feature or setting, a login, a user to do something, or local access. Unclear: the sources do not say enough to tell.Vendor severity. The vendor's own rating (Low, Medium, High or Critical), taken from its machine-readable advisory. Vendors know how their software is used, so a vendor rating well below the CVSS level usually means the affected setup is rare.Public exploit. Public exploit code from Exploit-DB, a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template or a proof of concept on GitHub. It means attacks need less skill; it is not proof of attacks.CISA SSVC. Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's Vulnrichment. Exploitation is none, poc (proof of concept) or active; Automatable says whether an attacker can script it end to end; Technical impact is partial or total control. CISA's SSVC documentation.