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OWASP/cve-lite-cli

v1.1.1 Feature

This release adds 2 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

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Summary

AI summary

Advisory sync performance improved ~9.9x and stale-data warnings added for offline scans.

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Added

  • advisory DB freshness reporting during offline scans
  • stale-data warnings when the local advisory DB appears old or is missing sync metadata

Changed

  • significantly improved advisory sync performance through bulk SQLite ingestion optimizations
  • local advisory DB sync is now about 9.9x faster in our benchmark on the same machine and OSV npm dump
  • README now includes the advisory sync benchmark and updated offline freshness guidance

Benchmark

Local benchmark on the same machine using the same OSV npm dump:

  • advisory records: about 217,065
  • before: 87.53s real
  • after: 8.84s real

Example workflow

cve-lite advisories sync
cve-lite /path/to/project --offline

Or with an explicit DB path:

cve-lite advisories sync --output /path/to/advisories.db
cve-lite /path/to/project --offline-db /path/to/advisories.db

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