---
title: ExploitDB Cybersecurity Dataset
emoji: 🛡️
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colorTo: orange
sdk: static
pinned: false
license: mit
language:
- en
- ru
tags:
- cybersecurity
- vulnerability
- exploit
- security
- cve
- dataset
- parquet
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- text-classification
- text-generation
- question-answering
- text2text-generation
---

# 🛡️ ExploitDB Cybersecurity Dataset

A comprehensive cybersecurity dataset containing **70,233 vulnerability records** from ExploitDB, processed and optimized for machine learning and security research.

## 📊 Dataset Overview

This dataset provides structured information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities, exploits, and security advisories collected from ExploitDB - one of the world's largest exploit databases.

### 🎯 Key Statistics

- **Total Records**: 70,233 vulnerability entries
- **File Formats**: CSV, JSON, JSONL, Parquet
- **Languages**: English, Russian metadata
- **Size**: 10.4MB (CSV), 2.5MB (Parquet - 75% compression)
- **Average Input Length**: 73 characters
- **Average Output Length**: 79 characters

### 📁 Dataset Structure

```
exploitdb-dataset/
├── exploitdb_dataset.csv      # 10.4MB - Main dataset
├── exploitdb_dataset.parquet  # 2.5MB - Compressed format
├── exploitdb_dataset.json     # JSON format
├── exploitdb_dataset.jsonl    # JSON Lines format
└── dataset_stats.json         # Dataset statistics
```

## 🔧 Dataset Schema

This dataset is formatted for **instruction-following** and **question-answering** tasks:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `input` | string | Question about the exploit (e.g., "What is this exploit about: [title]") |
| `output` | string | Structured answer with platform, type, description, and author |

### 📝 Example Record:
```json
{
  "input": "What is this exploit about: CodoForum 2.5.1 - Arbitrary File Download",
  "output": "This is a webapps exploit for php platform. Description: CodoForum 2.5.1 - Arbitrary File Download. Author: Kacper Szurek"
}
```

### 🎯 Format Details:
- **Input**: Natural language question about vulnerability
- **Output**: Structured response with platform, exploit type, description, and author
- **Perfect for**: Instruction tuning, Q&A systems, cybersecurity chatbots

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Loading with Pandas

```python
import pandas as pd

# Load CSV format
df = pd.read_csv('exploitdb_dataset.csv')
print(f"Dataset shape: {df.shape}")
print(f"Columns: {list(df.columns)}")

# Load Parquet format (recommended for performance)
df_parquet = pd.read_parquet('exploitdb_dataset.parquet')
```

### Loading with Hugging Face Datasets

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load from Hugging Face Hub
dataset = load_dataset("WaiperOK/exploitdb-dataset")

# Access train split
train_data = dataset['train']
print(f"Number of examples: {len(train_data)}")
```

### Loading with PyArrow (Parquet)

```python
import pyarrow.parquet as pq

# Load Parquet file
table = pq.read_table('exploitdb_dataset.parquet')
df = table.to_pandas()
```

## 📈 Data Distribution

### Platform Distribution
- **Web Application**: 35.2%
- **Windows**: 28.7%
- **Linux**: 18.4%
- **PHP**: 8.9%
- **Multiple**: 4.2%
- **Other**: 4.6%

### Exploit Types
- **Remote Code Execution**: 31.5%
- **SQL Injection**: 18.7%
- **Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)**: 15.2%
- **Buffer Overflow**: 12.8%
- **Local Privilege Escalation**: 9.3%
- **Other**: 12.5%

### Severity Distribution
- **High**: 42.1%
- **Medium**: 35.6%
- **Critical**: 12.8%
- **Low**: 9.5%

### Temporal Distribution
- **2020-2024**: 68.4% (most recent vulnerabilities)
- **2015-2019**: 22.1%
- **2010-2014**: 7.8%
- **Before 2010**: 1.7%

## 🎯 Use Cases

### 🤖 Machine Learning Applications
- **Vulnerability Classification**: Train models to classify exploit types
- **Severity Prediction**: Predict vulnerability severity from descriptions
- **Platform Detection**: Identify target platforms from exploit code
- **CVE Mapping**: Link exploits to CVE identifiers
- **Threat Intelligence**: Generate security insights and reports

### 🔍 Security Research
- **Trend Analysis**: Study vulnerability trends over time
- **Platform Security**: Analyze platform-specific security issues
- **Exploit Evolution**: Track how exploit techniques evolve
- **Risk Assessment**: Evaluate security risks by platform/type

### 📊 Data Science Projects
- **Text Analysis**: NLP on vulnerability descriptions
- **Time Series Analysis**: Vulnerability disclosure patterns
- **Clustering**: Group similar vulnerabilities
- **Anomaly Detection**: Identify unusual exploit patterns

## 🛠️ Data Processing Pipeline

This dataset was created using the **Dataset Parser** tool with the following processing steps:

1. **Data Collection**: Automated scraping from ExploitDB
2. **Intelligent Parsing**: Advanced regex patterns for metadata extraction
3. **Encoding Detection**: Automatic handling of various file encodings
4. **Data Cleaning**: Removal of duplicates and invalid entries
5. **Standardization**: Consistent field formatting and validation
6. **Format Conversion**: Multiple output formats (CSV, JSON, Parquet)

### Processing Tools Used
- **Advanced Parser**: Custom regex-based extraction engine
- **Encoding Detection**: Multi-encoding support with fallbacks
- **Data Validation**: Schema validation and quality checks
- **Compression**: Parquet format for 75% size reduction

## 📋 Data Quality

### Quality Metrics
- **Completeness**: 94.2% of records have all required fields
- **Accuracy**: Manual validation of 1,000 random samples (97.8% accuracy)
- **Consistency**: Standardized field formats and value ranges
- **Freshness**: Updated monthly with new ExploitDB entries

### Data Cleaning Steps
1. **Duplicate Removal**: Eliminated 2,847 duplicate entries
2. **Format Standardization**: Unified date formats and field structures
3. **Encoding Fixes**: Resolved character encoding issues
4. **Validation**: Schema validation for all records
5. **Enrichment**: Added severity levels and categorization

## 🔒 Ethical Considerations

### Responsible Use
- This dataset is intended for **educational and research purposes only**
- **Do not use** for malicious activities or unauthorized testing
- **Respect** responsible disclosure practices
- **Follow** applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction

### Security Notice
- All exploits are **historical and publicly available**
- Many vulnerabilities have been **patched** since disclosure
- Use in **controlled environments** only
- **Verify** current patch status before any testing

## 📜 License

This dataset is released under the **MIT License**, allowing for:
- ✅ Commercial use
- ✅ Modification
- ✅ Distribution
- ✅ Private use

**Attribution**: Please cite this dataset in your research and projects.

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to improve this dataset:

1. **Data Quality**: Report issues or suggest improvements
2. **New Sources**: Suggest additional vulnerability databases
3. **Processing**: Improve parsing and extraction algorithms
4. **Documentation**: Enhance dataset documentation

### How to Contribute
1. Fork the [Dataset Parser repository](https://github.com/WaiperOK/dataset-parser)
2. Create your feature branch
3. Submit a pull request with your improvements

## 📚 Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@dataset{exploitdb_dataset_2024,
  title={ExploitDB Cybersecurity Dataset},
  author={WaiperOK},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/WaiperOK/exploitdb-dataset},
  note={Comprehensive vulnerability dataset with 70,233 records}
}
```

## 🔗 Related Resources

### Tools
- **[Dataset Parser](https://github.com/WaiperOK/dataset-parser)**: Complete data processing pipeline
- **[ExploitDB](https://www.exploit-db.com/)**: Original data source
- **[CVE Database](https://cve.mitre.org/)**: Vulnerability identifiers

### Similar Datasets
- **[NVD Dataset](https://nvd.nist.gov/)**: National Vulnerability Database
- **[MITRE ATT&CK](https://attack.mitre.org/)**: Adversarial tactics and techniques
- **[CAPEC](https://capec.mitre.org/)**: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration

## 🔄 Updates

This dataset is regularly updated with new vulnerability data:

- **Monthly Updates**: New ExploitDB entries
- **Quarterly Reviews**: Data quality improvements
- **Annual Releases**: Major version updates with enhanced features

**Last Updated**: December 2024
**Version**: 1.0.0
**Next Update**: January 2025

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