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[account ↗] [repo ↗] APPLICATION ★ 224 21 ● stale (last update 7 months ago)
reviewed by: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

PatchaPalooza is a CLI tool for fetching, storing, and analyzing Microsoft Patch Tuesday security update data from the MSRC CVRF API. It downloads monthly bulletins as JSON files into a local cache (msrc_data/) and provides commands to query CVEs, filter by CVSS score, and display statistics with colored output. The repository also bundles a large historical dataset of MSRC bulletins (1999–2026) including both Windows and Azure Linux (Mariner) advisories. The tool is a single monolithic Python script with no tests, no modularization, and minimal error handling. The README explicitly states it is no longer actively maintained and has been superseded by a web application. While functional for basic vulnerability lookup, the code is tightly coupled to the MSRC API schema and lacks reusable components. The bundled data is valuable for security research, but the tool itself is not production-grade.

RATING5.1/10
QUALITY5.5/10
MAINTENANCEstale
DRIFTmedium
CONTRIBUTORS4
VELOCITY0.56
OPEN ISSUES0
CLOSED ISSUES2
LAST COMMIT7 months ago
beautifulsoup4 (pip) ==4.14.3
requests (pip) ==2.32.5
termcolor (pip) ==3.3.0
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Last analyzed: 2026-08-13 00:20:32.907679
Next check: 2026-11-11 00:20:32.901693
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