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Vulnerability-assessment projects on GitHub

Scanners and audit tools that assess systems and networks for weaknesses.

As of , the most-starred Vulnerability-assessment projects on GitHub are nuclei (32.1K stars), h4cker (29.8K stars) and lynis (16.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Vulnerability-assessment repositories with 92.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was SilentSniffer, with +624 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+624

SilentSniffer

AhmadHassan-BTed/SilentSniffer · ★ 1.8K

SilentSniffer is an educational web security diagnostic sandbox with 54 browser-based modules that show how much hardware, network, and behavioral data a website can silently access, while keeping everything local.

+38

nuclei

projectdiscovery/nuclei · ★ 32.1K

A fast, open-source vulnerability scanner that runs YAML-based templates to find security issues in applications, APIs, networks, DNS and cloud configurations. Its checks come from a large global security community.

+28

h4cker

The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker · ★ 29.8K

A curated collection of thousands of cybersecurity resources — references, scripts, tools, code, labs, and training material — maintained by Omar Santos as a companion to his books, video courses, and live training.

+7

lynis

CISOfy/lynis · ★ 16.5K

Lynis is a security auditing and hardening tool for Linux, macOS, BSD, and other Unix-like systems. It scans the host it runs on for vulnerable software, misconfigurations, and weak settings, and gives hardening tips while also assisting with compliance testing (HIPAA, ISO27001, PCI DSS).

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · projectdiscovery/nuclei

    nuclei

    A fast, open-source vulnerability scanner that runs YAML-based templates to find security issues in applications, APIs, networks, DNS and cloud configurations. Its checks come from a large global security community.

    32.1K
  2. #2 · The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker

    h4cker

    A curated collection of thousands of cybersecurity resources — references, scripts, tools, code, labs, and training material — maintained by Omar Santos as a companion to his books, video courses, and live training.

    29.8K
  3. #3 · CISOfy/lynis

    lynis

    Lynis is a security auditing and hardening tool for Linux, macOS, BSD, and other Unix-like systems. It scans the host it runs on for vulnerable software, misconfigurations, and weak settings, and gives hardening tips while also assisting with compliance testing (HIPAA, ISO27001, PCI DSS).

    16.5K
  1. 4

    vuls

    12.3Kfuture-architect/vuls · Go

    Vuls is an open-source, agent-less vulnerability scanner written in Go. It automatically detects vulnerabilities affecting your servers and can generate reports on a regular basis, for example via CRON.

  2. 5

    SilentSniffer

    1.8KAhmadHassan-BTed/SilentSniffer · JavaScript

    SilentSniffer is an educational web security diagnostic sandbox with 54 browser-based modules that show how much hardware, network, and behavioral data a website can silently access, while keeping everything local.

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