Nmap's CPE to nvd CVE

The Vision is a tool for finding obsolete services

Trinity using nmap in Matrix movie 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrixarrow-up-right

Etymology

Hello everyone welcome to my gitbook, today we gonna back to seven years ago when a friend have been written an incredible tool called Hellraiserarrow-up-right, this tool is made in Ruby language, by engine uses resources to load Nmap's XML file arrow-up-rightand parses to extract CPEarrow-up-right for each service of Host, the second step uses a string of CPE to search in mainstream databases of vulnerability, yes Hellblazer brings vulnerability on the fly, different of a lot of vulnerability scanners that use an obsolete local cache of services versions with correlation with CVE and need an update every random periodicity.

Yes, exists a lot of complexity behind complete vulnerabilities scanners. For example, OpenVASarrow-up-right uses OVALarrow-up-right, lib microHTTPdarrow-up-right in greenbone but this explanation is not a better hour to hold because it is very complex to explain, you know this jump out of the context of the post.

The Vision

So, I do not remember real motivation; a significant purpose is for simplicity. I have changed the idea of Hellblazer. However, I have replaced Ruby with python, creating a full communication using the NIST database and the option to create a CSV file. Yes, I have written a new source code.

So back again, a good idea about this context is to create a tool to check vulnerability in each service from any host, so the first point is to load XML and proper load a parser. So many courses exist to do it, for example, SAXarrow-up-right, DOMarrow-up-right, automatons and another way. So of curiosity, I have written in SAX and DOM way, both just for fun. The last step is to create a proper communication to the NIST vulnerability database called NVDarrow-up-right to search for new security issues around each service banner from the host. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, meet the Visionarrow-up-right tool(DOM parser version).

Example:

DOM parser version

SAX parser version(just for fun)

Thank you for reading this.

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