Although Nmap itself has already become a powerful network-exploration tool, with the additional scripting engine capabilities, Nmap becomes a much more powerful tool. With the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), users can automate various networking tasks, such as checking for new security vulnerabilities in applications, detecting application versions, or other capabilities that are not available in Nmap. Nmap has already included various NSE scripts in its package, but users can also write their own scripts to suit their needs.
The NSE scripts utilize the Lua programming language (http://www.lua.org) embedded in Nmap, and, currently, the NSE scripts are categorized as follows:
- auth: The scripts in this category are ...
