How to do it...

To get all the vulnerability information with the Nmap Scripting Engine, perform the following steps:

  1. There are a number of different ways in which one can identify the functions associated with any given NSE script. One of the most effective ways is to reference the script.db file that is located in the Nmap script directory. To see the contents of the file, we can use the cat command, as follows:
  1. This script.db file is a very simple index that shows each NSE script's filename and the categories it falls into. These categories are standardized and make it easy to grep for specific types of script. The category name for ...

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