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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition
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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

by Paulino Calderon
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
21h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Generating vulnerability reports in NSE scripts

The Nmap Scripting Engine is perfect in order to detect vulnerabilities, and for this reason, there are already several exploitation scripts included with Nmap. Not too long ago, each developer used his own criteria of what output to include when reporting these vulnerabilities. To address this issue and unify the output format and the amount of information provided, a new NSE library was introduced.

This recipe will teach you how to generate vulnerability reports in your NSE scripts with the library vulns.

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ISBN: 9781786467454