OWASP/Nettacker
Automated Penetration Testing Framework - Open-Source Vulnerability Scanner - Vulnerability Management
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 65 days ago, with 81 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #50 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Automates penetration testing and vulnerability scanning with modular, multithreaded network and web application reconnaissance.
- Provides comprehensive, multi-protocol scanning with built-in database tracking and evasion techniques for efficient, stealthy security assessments.
- Use for automating penetration testing workflows including port scanning, service detection, and vulnerability checks.
- Use for continuous vulnerability monitoring and drift detection integrated into CI/CD pipelines to track infrastructure changes.
- Use for large-scale network asset discovery and attack surface mapping across IP ranges, subdomains, and protocols.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
OWASP Nettacker is an open-source, Python-based automated penetration testing and information-gathering framework designed to help cyber security professionals and ethical hackers perform reconnaissance, vulnerability assessments, and network security audits efficiently. Nettacker automates tasks like port scanning, service detection, subdomain enumeration, network mapping, vulnerability scanning, credential brute-force testing making it a powerful tool for identifying weaknesses in networks, web applications, IoT devices and APIs.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.2K+83
Open issues
281+56
Compared with peers in Automation
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 98.1K | +6.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| lexmount/moli | 22.7K | +1.2K | 55 | 2 days ago |
| superplanehq/superplane | 8.8K | +435 | 60 | 7 days ago |
| OWASP/Nettacker | 5.7K | — | 61 | 65 days ago |
| Category median | 22.7K | +3.0K | 60 | — |
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