Vuls is an agentless vulnerability scanner that identifies security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS, containers, programming language libraries, WordPress installations, and network devices.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Agentless vulnerability scanning.
- Supports major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.
- Scans cloud, on-premise and container environments.
- Remote scanning of servers over SSH.
- Local and server scan modes.
- Fast scans without root privileges or additional dependencies.
- Offline scanning for supported operating systems.
- Uses vulnerability data from NVD, JVN, OVAL feeds and security advisories.
- Identifies known exploits and actively exploited vulnerabilities.
- Scans programming language libraries and self-compiled software.
- CPE-based scanning of network devices and other software.
- Scans WordPress core, themes and plugins.
- GitHub Security Alerts integration.
- Email and Slack notifications.
- Scheduled vulnerability scanning and reporting.
Website: github.com/future-architect/vuls
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Developer: Future Architect
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Vuls is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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