Tools starting with V

Looking for new tools to extend your tool box? The top 100 list of best security tools is a great start.

VHostScan

VHostScan is a security tool that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, aliases, and dynamic default pages.

VScan

Vscan is a security tool to perform vulnerability scanning with Nmap. It leverages NSE scripts to provide some flexibility in terms of vulnerability detection and exploitation.

Vane

Vane is a forked project of the now non-free popular WordPress vulnerability scanner WPScan.

Vault

Vault is a tool created by HashiCorp to store secrets like keys and passwords. These secrets are typically used by other software components and scripts.


Latest release: 1.16.2 [April 23, 2024]

Veil Framework

Veil is a security tool designed to generate payloads for Metasploit that help in bypassing common anti-virus solutions.

Viper

Viper is a binary analysis and management framework for security researchers. It provides a way to organization your collection of malware samples and exploits.

Viproy (viproy-voipkit)

Viproy is a VoIP penetration testing and exploitation kit. It helps with testing VoIP protocols like SIP and Cisco Skinny and related IP phone services.

Volatility

Volatile memory framework used for forensics and analysis purposes. The framework is written in Python and runs on almost all platforms.

VulnFeed

VulnFeed is a tool that sorts through vulnerability reports, providing a single report that is organized by the applications and services you are interested in.

VulnWhisperer

VulnWhisperer is a security tool with the goal to do vulnerability data and reports aggregation. Read how it works in this review.

Vulnreport

Vulnreport is a tool to automate and manage all the data involved security reviews. In particular, it focuses on discovered vulnerabilities.

Vuls

Vuls is a vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. It is written in Go, agentless, and can use a remote login to find any software vulnerabilities. It has multiple levels of scanning, from a fast scan up to a deep scan with extensive analysis.


Latest release: 0.25.2 [March 22, 2024]

vFeed

vFeed is a set of tools around correlated vulnerability and threat intelligence. It provides a database, API, and supporting tools to store vulnerability data.

vallumd

Vallumd is a security tool using MQTT to provide centralized blacklists for multiple servers or systems.

vuLnDAP

VuLnDAP is a deliberately vulnerable web application. It shows how to exploit flaws in a website based on LDAP. Learn more about the tool and how it works.

vulnerability-alerter

Vulnerability-alerter is a security tool to retrieve vulnerability data from NIST's database (NVD). This data can be used to discover recent vulnerabilities.

vulnerable-node

Vulnerable-node is a vulnerable website with identified vulnerabilities. It can be used to test the quality of tools and is written in Node.js.

vulnix

Vulnix is a security scanner for NixOS. It specifically looks for vulnerabilities in available packages and comes with a command line interface (CLI).

vulscan

Vulscan is a vulnerability scanner which uses the well-known Nmap tool. By enhancing it with offline data from VulDB, it allows for detecting vulnerabilities. The database itself based on information from multiple sources.

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