**Blog Series: Running Local AI for Cybersecurity**

**Week 5: Daily CVE Monitoring + Obsidian Integration for Ongoing Threat Intelligence**

You’ve got your AI tools running locally. You’re scanning targets and getting smart analysis. But what about staying updated daily with the latest vulnerabilities?

This week, we’ll automate that process with a cron job that fetches the latest CVEs and stores the results in a format compatible with your favorite note-taking system, like Obsidian.

## 🛠️Step 1: Schedule Daily CVE Fetches with cron

We’ll use the CVE feed from MITRE’s API to pull the most recent entries each day.

First, test it manually:

$ curl -s 'https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json' | jq > ~/kev_daily.json

Then, schedule this to run every day at noon:

$ echo "0 12 * * * curl -s 'https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json' | jq > ~/kev_daily.json | crontab -

Now, every day, you’ll get a fresh JSON file of the latest CVEs in your home directory.

## 🧠Step 2: Use AI to Summarize CVEs for Humans

Want a human-readable summary for your notes?

$ ai-hack "Summarize CVE-2025-1234" > ~/obsidian/cve/CVE-2025-1234.md

Or loop through the JSON daily and auto-create Obsidian notes:

jq -r '.results[ ] | .cve_id + "\n" + .description + "\n---"' ~/cve_daily.json | while read -r line; do

    filename=$(echo "$line" | head -n1)

    echo "$line" > ~/obsidian/cve/$filename.md

    ai-hack "Summarize $filename" >> ~/obsidian/cve/$filename.md

done

Now your Obsidian vault becomes a living CVE journal powered by local AI.

🗂️ Folder Structure Example

~/obsidian/

├── cve/
│   ├── CVE-2025-1234.md
│   ├── CVE-2025-9101.md
│   └── CVE-2025-1122.md

Each note contains:

• CVE ID
• Description from MITRE
• AI-generated summary + risk assessment