vulnix
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- BSD 2-clause
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Maksim Bronsky
- Latest release
- 1.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Links
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Why this tool?
Tools like vulnix help with the detection of known weaknesses in packages by leveraging external resources. It can be used as an additional security layer on top of software patch management.
Usage and audience
vulnix is commonly used for vulnerability scanning. Target users for this tool are pentesters, security professionals, and system administrators.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Vulnix is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use vulnix.
- ZODB
- click
- colorama
- lxml
- pyyaml
- requests
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux vulnerability scanning tool.