# Install cve-bin-tool with Homebrew, Nix

Scans binaries and SBOMs for known vulnerabilities and prepares reports. Version 3.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-15. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#cve-bin-tool.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cve-bin-tool
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cve-bin-tool
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cve-bin-tool
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cv/cve-bin-tool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cve-bin-tool
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.4
- **Source summary:** Scans binaries and SBOMs for known vulnerabilities and prepares reports
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ossf/cve-bin-tool>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ossf/cve-bin-tool>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-15T13:37:09Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- csv2cve (alias)
- cve-bin-tool (alias)
- mismatch (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.4
## Project history and usage

CVE Binary Tool is an OpenSSF vulnerability-scanning tool that detects known vulnerable components in binaries, package lists, and SBOMs, then reports matching CVEs.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in January 2019. Official documentation describes the tool as using NVD plus sources such as Red Hat, OSV, GitLab Advisory Database, and Curl vulnerability data.

### Adoption history

The project is documented for pip installation, GitHub Actions usage, and package-manager distribution through Homebrew and Nix in the supplied facts, making it usable in local scans and CI pipelines.

### How it is used

Users scan directories, files, SBOMs, package lists, and language dependency manifests; the tool can also generate SBOM and VEX outputs and run with cached or offline vulnerability data.

### Why package nerds care

CVE Binary Tool is relevant to package maintainers because it connects binary/package inventory, SBOM formats, vulnerability databases, and CI reporting in a single command-line workflow.

### Timeline

- 2019: GitHub repository created.
- 2019: CVE Binary Tool 0.3.0 appears in GitHub releases.
- 2024: CVE Binary Tool 3.4 appears in GitHub releases.
- 2025: v3.4.1rc0 appears as a pre-release.

### Related projects

- OpenSSF, NVD, OSV, GitLab Advisory Database, SPDX, CycloneDX, OpenVEX

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ossf/cve-bin-tool>
- <https://cve-bin-tool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
- <https://github.com/ossf/cve-bin-tool/blob/main/doc/MANUAL.md>
- <https://github.com/ossf/cve-bin-tool/blob/main/doc/README.md>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cve-bin-tool. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - cve-bin-tool: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cv/cve-bin-tool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cve-bin-tool.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cve-bin-tool.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph