PatchChecker - Web-based check for Windows privesc vulnerabilities

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This is the code base for the service running on: https://patchchecker.com. In short, PatchChecker is a web application (running on flask) that provides output similar to that of Watson. However, by using PatchChecker, one is not required to execute a binary on the target machine. Included in this project is also a web scraper that will automatically update the database for PatchChecker using information present on Microsoft sites, this allows for a more scalable and easier to use solution to the problem of finding CVEs to which a Windows system is (or is not) patched against. Additionally, any other CVEs can be added to the data collector input and checked for as long as they have an entry on https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com. You can also use this to get the data to update Watson. Further information about this project can be found here or here (github.io mirror). Using PatchChecker to check vulnerabilities:....

October 21, 2020

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