Yersinia
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Authors
- Alfredo Andrés
- David Barroso
- Latest release
- 0.8.2
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
The Yersinia tool takes advantage of known weaknesses in several network protocols. It helps with trying to abuse the weaknesses to ensure that network protections are implemented where possible.
Related protocols:
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
- 802.1q
- 802.1x
- Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL)
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Installation
Supported operating systems
Yersinia is known to work on Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, and macOS.
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