Metasploit Framework

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Tool and Usage

Project details

Licenses
BSD 3-clause
Multi-license
Programming language
Ruby
Author
HD Moore
Latest release
4.11.7
Latest release date

Project health

74
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Usage and audience

Metasploit Framework is commonly used for penetration testing, security assessment, or vulnerability scanning. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.

Features

  • Command line interface
  • Customization and additions are possible
  • Extendable with custom tests and plugins
  • Tool is modular

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + More than 400 contributors
  • + More than 9000 stars
  • + Many maintainers
  • + The source code of this software is available
  • + Supported by a large company
  • + Well-known tool

Author and Maintainers

Metasploit Framework is under development by HD Moore and maintained by Rapid7.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Metasploit Framework is known to work on Linux.

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