cve command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cve command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cve: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cve: command not found

Solutions to cve: command not found

How To Fix cve: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cve is provided by python3-cvelib package.

python3-cvelib is:

cvelib is a library and a command line interface to interact with the MITRE CVE Services API, including functions to reserve one or more CVE IDs for a CNA, filter and list reserved CVEs owned by a CNA, and administration of user and tokes for a CNA.

This package installs the library for Python 3 and a CLI tool.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-cvelib

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-cvelib.

sudo apt -y install python3-cvelib

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-cvelib

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cve command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.