This workflow continuously monitors CVE databases, threat intelligence feeds, and public security advisories to surface emerging zero-day threats, correlates them against your registered infrastructure assets and software inventory, and uses Claude AI to score exploitability, assess business impact, and generate actionable remediation playbooks — all before attackers can operationalise the vulnerability.
How it works
- Trigger — Hourly schedule or on-demand webhook for immediate threat scans
- Load Asset Inventory — Fetches registered infrastructure (IPs, hostnames, software, versions) from Airtable
- Scrape CVE Sources — Queries NVD API, CISA KEV, and GitHub Security Advisories in parallel
- Fetch Threat Feeds — Pulls OSINT feeds (AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch, Shodan) for active exploitation signals
- Normalise & Deduplicate — Merges all findings, deduplicates by CVE ID, enriches with CVSS scores
- Correlate with Assets — Matches CVEs to your specific software/version inventory
- AI Threat Assessment — Claude AI scores exploitability, blast radius, and urgency per matched threat
- Filter Critical Findings — Keeps only threats scoring above configurable risk threshold
- Route by Severity — Branches CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM for different response paths
- Alert SOC via Slack — Immediate notification with threat summary and patch status
- Create Incident Tickets — Auto-opens Jira/ServiceNow issues for CRITICAL and HIGH threats
- Email Security Team — Detailed HTML threat brief with CVE details and remediation steps
- Update Threat Register — Appends findings to Google Sheets threat intelligence log
- Trigger Patch Workflow — Webhooks downstream patch management system for auto-remediation
- Return API Response — Structured JSON result for SIEM/SOAR integration
Setup Steps
- Import workflow into n8n
- Configure credentials:
- Anthropic API — Claude AI for threat assessment
- NVD API Key — NIST National Vulnerability Database
- CISA KEV — Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (public)
- AlienVault OTX API — Open Threat Exchange pulses
- Shodan API — Internet exposure checks
- Airtable — Asset/software inventory
- Google Sheets OAuth — Threat intelligence log
- Slack OAuth — SOC alerts
- Jira API — Incident ticket creation
- SendGrid / SMTP — Security team email digests
- Register your asset inventory in Airtable (hostnames, IPs, software, versions)
- Set your risk score threshold (default: 65) in the filter node
- Set your Slack SOC channel IDs
- Configure downstream patch webhook URL
- Activate the workflow
Sample Webhook Payload (On-Demand Scan)
{
"scanType": "targeted",
"software": "Apache HTTP Server",
"version": "2.4.51",
"urgency": "high",
"requestedBy": "[email protected]"
}
Threat Sources Monitored
- NVD (NIST) — Full CVE database with CVSS v3.1 scores
- CISA KEV — Actively exploited vulnerabilities catalogue
- GitHub Security Advisories — Open source dependency vulnerabilities
- AlienVault OTX — Community threat intelligence pulses
- abuse.ch URLhaus — Malware distribution and C2 URLs
- Shodan — Internet-exposed asset enumeration
- EPSS — Exploit Prediction Scoring System probabilities
AI Assessment Dimensions
- CVSS Score — Base, temporal, and environmental scoring
- EPSS Probability — Likelihood of exploitation in the wild
- Asset Exposure — Internal vs external facing, attack surface
- Patch Availability — Vendor patch, workaround, or no fix status
- Active Exploitation — CISA KEV / OTX confirmation
- Business Impact — Confidentiality, integrity, availability impact
- Blast Radius — Number of affected assets and systems
- Urgency Score — Composite prioritisation score (0–100)
Features
- Multi-source CVE aggregation with deduplication
- Asset correlation against software/version inventory
- EPSS-weighted AI exploitability scoring
- Automated CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM severity routing
- Jira ticket creation with full CVE context
- Patch management webhook integration
- Full threat intelligence audit log
- SIEM/SOAR-ready JSON output
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