# nmatt0/mithril

> C++ static scanner for firmware and IoT software: finds embedded secrets and keys, builds an SBOM, matches components against CVEs, and detects licenses, fully offline and emitting JSON.

- Magnitude: 0.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 255 total · +0 stars on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 1 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-07 · Last push: 2026-09-18
- GitHub: https://github.com/nmatt0/mithril · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nmatt0/mithril

## Useful for

- Scan an unpacked rootfs for leaked keys and tokens before shipping a device
- Generate a CycloneDX/SPDX SBOM for firmware without a package manager
- Match firmware components against a local CVE mirror in an air-gapped network

## Why it’s here

- The repository is 17 days old and already has 255 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 32
- Issues and pull requests: 31
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 13 per day
- Latest release: v0.2.1 (2026-09-13)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-13 1.2, 09-14 1.4, 09-15 1.7, 09-16 2.6, 09-17 2.3, 09-18 1.9, 09-19 1.0, 09-20 1.0, 09-21 0.9, 09-22 1.0, 09-23 1.2, 09-24 0.4

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 00:01 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.