vulnerability-scanner
Orchestrate AI agents to find real vulnerabilities in code.
An open-source, self-hosted security research platform that turns focused AI analysis into de-duplicated, ranked findings with configurable validation and enrichment.
Lightweight & Fast Security Scanner for React Native & Expo.
A zero-configuration security scanner for React Native and Expo applications that detects vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets, and security misconfigurations with a single command.
Agentic SAST Pipeline.
VVAH is Visa's open-source harness for autonomous vulnerability discovery, remediation, and validation using frontier AI models, built on learnings from Project Glasswing (Anthropic's initiative for AI-assisted vulnerability research).
Modular Go framework for attack surface management, reconnaissance, and vulnerability scanning.
NOX is a modular, Go based attack surface management and vulnerability scanning framework. It ships with 300 built in modules covering OSINT, subdomain enumeration, DNS, port scanning, web fingerprinting, and deep active vulnerability testing across injection, authentication, authorization, client side, cloud, API, and business logic vulnerability classes.
Most web security tools like OWASP ZAP are powerful but complex. A developer without a cybersecurity background struggles to configure them correctly. My goal was to wrap ZAP's API into a simple Python CLI tool that anyone can run with a single command.
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GitHub Actions security scanner: pin actions to SHAs, detect script injection, audit permissions. Fix supply chain vulnerabilities.
Secure your GitHub Actions workflows against supply chain attacks. Detects unpinned actions (the tj-actions attack vector), dangerous permissions, and script injection — all in one scan.
This project is an AI-Native SAST tool. Unlike traditional SAST tools that rely solely on parsing and analysis rules, this project uses LLM (e.g. Claude from Anthropic, GPT from OpenAI or Gemini from Google) to find vulnerabilities.
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
KICS stands for Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure, it is open source and is a must-have for any cloud native project.
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Scan. Understand. Fix. Free, local-first JS/TS vulnerability scanner.
Fast, developer-friendly JS/TS dependency vulnerability scanner with local lockfile scanning, OSV matching, direct vs transitive visibility, --fix, JSON output, and practical remediation guidance.
Most security tools are built around pipelines, not developers. CVE Lite CLI scans your lockfile locally in seconds, explains the dependency path, and tells you what to update before you push.
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A Go CLI tool that scans rendered Kubernetes/Helm manifests and produces a CSV & JSON report of security misconfigurations.
AI-Native Vulnerability Management.
AISLE finds, fixes, and verifies vulnerabilities autonomously – proven on the world's most audited codebases. Deploy anywhere: cloud, on-prem, or fully air-gapped.
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Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-chain compromises.
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Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port .
testssl.sh is a free command line tool which checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws and more.
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AI-Powered Docker Security Analyzer.
AI-powered Docker security scanner that explains vulnerabilities in plain English
Discover gaps in Entra Conditional Access policies before attackers do.
AI-driven vulnerability discovery and live validation.
A terminal workbench for AI-driven vulnerability discovery and live validation.
Deepsec is a security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase powered by coding agents.
deepsec an agent-powered vulnerability scanner that you can run in your own infrastructure, optimized to perform on-demand review of all code in existing large-scale repos.
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Go (formerly PowerShell) collector for adding MSSQL attack paths to BloodHound with OpenGraph.
A collector for adding MSSQL attack paths to BloodHound with OpenGraph by Chris Thompson at SpecterOps. Available as both a PowerShell script and a cross-platform Go binary (with concurrent collection, SOCKS5 proxy support, and streaming output).
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Automated Google Dorking Tool. Generates and runs advanced search queries for exposed files. It also test Vulns, Analyzes and extracts metadata.
AI-Powered Docker Security Analyzer. AI-powered Docker security scanner that explains vulnerabilities in plain English.
DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines traditional Docker security scanners (Trivy, Hadolint, Docker Scout) with AI to provide context-aware security analysis.
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Security configuration scanner for Claude Code.
Clauditor audits your Claude Code settings and repository configuration to detect security misconfigurations.
JamfHound is a python3 project designed to collect and identify attack paths in Jamf Pro tenants based on existing object permissions by outputting data as JSON for ingestion into BloodHound.
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Security auditing CLI for web applications.
VICE is a security auditing CLI tool that finds vulnerabilities in your web applications. It has two modes:
Remote scan gives it a URL. It crawls your site with a real browser, extracts secrets from JS bundles, tests your login for brute force and SQL injection, scans your VPS ports, checks your Supabase RLS, and more. Like an attacker would, but on your own systems.
Local audit points it at your project directory. It reads your source code, checks your .env files, runs npm audit, analyzes your Supabase migrations for missing RLS, finds SQL injections and XSS in your code, and tells you exactly what to fix.
Hunt Vulnerabilities in Binaries with VulHunt.
VulHunt goes beyond signature matching and version inference. Write Lua rules that leverage dataflow analysis, code pattern matching, and decompilation to detect known and unknown vulnerabilities in POSIX binaries and UEFI firmware.
Attack Surface Discovery & OSINT Reconnaissance Tool.
Organizational asset discovery tool with 20+ plugins covering certificate transparency, passive DNS, and all 5 Regional Internet Registries.
Pius is an open-source attack surface discovery tool written in Go. Given a company name, it maps the complete external attack surface: domains, subdomains, and IP ranges (CIDRs). Pius queries certificate transparency logs, all five regional Internet registries (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, LACNIC), passive DNS databases, WHOIS/RDAP, BGP tables, and more through 24 discovery plugins.
A multi-platform CI/CD vulnerability detection and attack automation tool for identifying security weaknesses in pipeline configurations.
Trajan scans CI/CD pipelines for security vulnerabilities that attackers use to compromise software supply chains. It supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and JFrog.
Bagel is a cross-platform CLI that inspects developer workstations and produces a structured report of security findings. It allows developers to understand their attack surface and what could be of interest to a malicious actor.
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Launched in 2016, the HTTP Observatory enhances web security by analyzing compliance with best security practices. It has provided insights to over 6.9 million websites through 47 million scans.
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MCP security testing framework for evaluating Model Context Protocol server vulnerabilities.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with FastMCP that provides various tools including Claude AI integration, text injection capabilities, and server information utilities. It is definitely super secure, you should definitely send confidential data through it, and definitely take everything it says as fact.
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Caterpillar is a security scanning library for AI agent skill files (e.g., Claude Code skills) for dangerous or malicious behavior.
Security scanner for AI agent skills. Scans for malicious patterns before you install.
LLM Vulnerability Scanner.
Test large language models against 210+ adversarial attacks covering prompt injection, jailbreaks, encoding exploits, and data extraction.
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Security Scanner for Agent Skills.
A security scanner for AI Agent Skills that detects prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious code patterns. Combines pattern-based detection (YAML + YARA), LLM-as-a-judge, and behavioral dataflow analysis for comprehensive threat detection.
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Brakeman Security Scanner. Secure Your Rails Applications
Brakeman is a free vulnerability scanner designed for Ruby on Rails applications. Statically analyze Rails application code to find security issues at any stage of development.
aura-inspector is a Swiss Army knife of Salesforce Experience Cloud testing. It facilitates in discovering misconfigured Salesforce Experience Cloud applications as well as automates much of the testing process. Some of it's functionality includes:
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AWS Attack Path Scanner. Discover privilege escalation paths across 10+ AWS services.
Heimdall is an AWS security scanner that discovers privilege escalation paths attackers could exploit to gain admin access.
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NGINX Configuration Security & Hardening Scanner.
Gixy-Next (Gixy) is an open-source NGINX configuration security scanner and hardening tool that statically analyzes your nginx.conf to detect security misconfigurations, hardening gaps, and common performance pitfalls before they reach production. It is an actively maintained fork of Yandex's Gixy. Gixy-Next's source code is available on GitHub.
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A security auditor for Tailscale configurations. Scans your tailnet for misconfigurations, overly permissive access controls, and security best practice violations.
High Fidelity Detection Mechanism for RSC/Next.js RCE (CVE-2025-55182 & CVE-2025-66478).
A command-line tool for detecting CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478 in Next.js applications using React Server Components.
Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner is a Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning and web cache deception.
The scanner supports many different web cache poisoning and web cache deception techniques, includes a crawler to identify further URLs to test, and can adapt to a specific web cache for more efficient testing. It is highly customizable and can be easily integrated into existing CI/CD pipelines.
Open Source Cloud Security Scanner.
An open source, cloud-native security to protect everything from build to runtime.
cnspec assesses your entire infrastructure's security and compliance. It finds vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across public and private cloud environments, Kubernetes clusters, containers, container registries, servers, endpoints, SaaS products, infrastructure as code, APIs, and more.
A powerful policy as code engine, cnspec is built upon Mondoo's security data fabric. It comes configured with default security policies that run right out of the box. It's both fast and simple to use!
Sirius is an open-source comprehensive vulnerability scanner that leverages community-driven security intelligence and automated penetration testing capabilities.
Scan MCP servers for potential threats & security findings.
A Python tool for scanning MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tools for potential security findings. The MCP Scanner combines Cisco AI Defense inspect API, YARA rules and LLM-as-a-judge to detect malicious MCP tools.
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An advanced AI-driven vulnerability scanner and penetration testing tool that integrates multiple AI providers (OpenAI, Grok, OLLAMA, Claude) with comprehensive security testing modules for automated bug hunting, intelligent payload generation, and professional reporting.
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Comprehensive detection tool for NPM supply chain attacks, specifically designed to identify and prevent the Shai-Hulud worm that compromised 500+ packages including CrowdStrike npm packages in 2025.
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Scans Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for security vulnerabilities.
bomber is an application that scans SBOMs for security vulnerabilities.
Securing containers, one scan at a time.
Harbor Guard is a comprehensive container security scanning platform that provides an intuitive web interface for managing and visualizing security assessments of Docker images.
Chrome extension that highlights CVE identifiers and displays critical information directly on any webpage. No need to navigate elsewhere.
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ChopChop is a command-line tool for dynamic application security testing on web applications, initially written by the Michelin CERT.
Its goal is to scan several endpoints and identify exposition of services/files/folders through the webroot. Checks/Signatures are declared in a config file (by default: chopchop.yml), fully configurable, and especially by developers.
Buttercup is a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) developed by Trail of Bits for the DARPA AIxCC (AI Cyber Challenge). Buttercup finds and patches software vulnerabilities in open-source code repositories like example-libpng. It starts by running an AI/ML-assisted fuzzing campaign (built on oss-fuzz) for the program. When vulnerabilities are found, Buttercup analyzes them and uses a multi-agent AI-driven patcher to repair the vulnerability.
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🔎 Static code analysis engine to find security issues in code. Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep, under the LGPL 2.1 license.
Opengrep is an ultra-fast static analysis tool for searching code patterns with the power of semantic grep. Analyze large code bases at the speed of thought with intuitive pattern matching and customizable rules. Find and fix security vulnerabilities, fast – ship more secure code.
Opengrep supports 30+ languages, including:
Apex · Bash · C · C++ · C# · Clojure · Dart · Dockerfile · Elixir · HTML · Go · Java · JavaScript · JSX · JSON · Julia · Jsonnet · Kotlin · Lisp · Lua · OCaml · PHP · Python · R · Ruby · Rust · Scala · Scheme · Solidity · Swift · Terraform · TypeScript · TSX · YAML · XML · Generic (ERB, Jinja, etc.)
Automated Penetration Testing Framework - Open-Source Vulnerability Scanner - Vulnerability Management.
OWASP Nettacker project was created to automate information gathering, vulnerability scanning and in general to aid penetration testing engagements. Nettacker is able to run various scans using a variety of methods and generate scan reports(in HTML/TXT/JSON/CSV format) for applications and networks, including discovering open ports, services, bugs, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, default credentials, subdomains, etc. Nettacker can be run as a command-line utility (including running as a Docker container), API, Web GUI mode or as Maltego transforms.
Agentless Vulnerability Scanner for Linux/FreeBSD.
Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices.
Security scanner for MCP servers
MCP-Shield scans your installed MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and detects vulnerabilities like tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels and cross-origin escalations.
GLPI vulnerabilities checking tool.
glpwnme is a tool used to check for vulnerabilities on running instance of glpi.
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Fuzzowski-based OPCUA fuzzer.
Fuzzing should never be conducted on production equipment or systems. This testing technique can cause unexpected behavior, system crashes, data corruption, or security vulnerabilities. Always perform fuzzing in a controlled, isolated environment to ensure the safety and stability of production systems.
FuzzySully is an OPC UA fuzzer built upon Fuzzowski. It is a specialized testing tool designed to identify vulnerabilities and bugs in OPC UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture) implementations. These fuzzers typically operate by generating and sending a large number of malformed or unexpected messages to an OPC UA server or client, with the goal of triggering unexpected behavior or crashes.
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Ollama Automated Security Intelligence Scanner.
🛡️ An AI-powered security auditing tool that leverages Ollama models to detect and analyze potential security vulnerabilities in your code.
Advanced code security analysis through the power of AI
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Validate the isolation posture of your container environment.
Am I Isolated is a security posture benchmarking tool.
It evaluates a given runtime environment and attempts to look for things which may be a security problem, as well as providing suggestions for solving the security problem.
the LLM vulnerability scanner. Generative AI Red-teaming & Assessment Kit
garak checks if an LLM can be made to fail in a way we don't want. garak probes for hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, misinformation, toxicity generation, jailbreaks, and many other weaknesses. If you know nmap, it's nmap for LLMs.
AcSecurity is a Python module designed to scan applications for common security vulnerabilities. It checks for hardcoded secrets, dependency vulnerabilities, and code quality issues.