CSAF CVE Description Compare Tool

A small web tool to compare the CVE descriptions in CSAF documents with the descriptions in CVE databases.

Online version

How it works

• Upload a CSAF document
• The tool extracts the referenced CDE IDs and descriptions
• For each vulnerability, it loads the CVE descriptions from a CVE API
• The tools highlights the differences
• Press a button to overwrite the CVE description in the CSAF document with the description from the CVE database
• Download the updated CSAF document

Screenshots

Dev notes

It uses docker compose and port 48050.

License

 SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) <https://www.bsi.bund.de>
 Software-Engineering: 2026 Intevation GmbH <https://intevation.de>