Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/06/2026

Google Summer of Code 2026 Our very own Jack Heysel has added some documentation which outlines the Metasploit Framework project ideas for GSoC 2026. For anyone interested in applying please see GSoC-How-To-Apply documentation, or reach out on slack to any of the following GSoC mentors on Slack v...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Mucking out the pipes. Thanks to some quick work by timwr, CVE-2022-0847 aka "Dirty Pipe" gives Metasploit a bit of digital plumber's training. The exploit targeting modern Linux v5 kernels helps elevate user privileges by overwriting a SUID binary of your choice by plunging some payload gold...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Hey who finked about Flink? In this week's round of modules, contributor bcoles offered up two modules to leverage that Apache Flink install you found in some fun new ways. If you are just looking to filch a few files, auxiliary/scanner/http/apacheflinkjobmanagertraversal leverages CVE-2020-17519...

Intel Owl - Analyze Files, Domains, IPs In Multiple Ways From A Single API At Scale

Do you want to get threatintelligence data about a file, an IP or a domain? Do you want to get this kind of data from multiple sources at the same time using a single API request? You are in the right place! This application is built to scale out and to speed up the retrieval of threat info. It c...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.3.2-1.fc29

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.3.2-1.fc30

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.2.4-3.fc26

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.2.4-3.fc27

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Ghost...what??? hdm recently provided a new exploit module for a type confusion vulnerability that exists in Ghostscript versions 9.21 and earlier, allowing remote code execution on the target. And to "kick it up a notch", this exploit got itself a snazzy logo which also contains the exploit:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc22

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. To use this library, you just have to add, in your project: requireonce '/usr/share/php/SqlParser/autoload.php';...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc23

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. To use this library, you just have to add, in your project: requireonce '/usr/share/php/SqlParser/autoload.php';...

[Ncrack] High-Speed Network Authentication Cracker

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a...

Johnny - GUI for John the Ripper

Johnny - GUI for John the Ripper Johnny is a GUI for John the Ripper. It was proposed by Shinnok. s release includes all things from development release plus nice tabbed panel for mode selection and some additional clean-ups. Basic functionality is supposed to work: password could be loaded from...

Security projects aim for Google Summer of Code

By Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus A number of security-focused open-source projects have announced their participation as mentoring organizations in Google’s Summer of Code google.com. They include the NMap Project, the OpenSSH project and the Honeynet Project. Read the full article securityfocus.co...