Nuclei
Nuclei is a free command-line tool that checks websites, servers and networks for known security weaknesses. It is aimed at security professionals and IT teams, who write or reuse simple text-based templates to define each check.
Description written from the project's own page; checked by AI.
Listed in1
The jobs it does, and the closed apps it replaces
Security scanning
Replaces partlyInstead of Plextrac, Vulcan, Tenable Nessus, Prisma Cloud
What's missing
Things people miss in Nuclei. Upvote what matters to you; it helps its team decide.
Facts
LicenseMIT
Runs onWindows · Mac · Linux
KindFor developers
Stars on GitHub32k
Hosted onGitHub
ActivityChanged within the last year
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Wrong devices, a wrong description, or it isn't really open source? A mod reviews every suggestion.
What we couldn't confirm3
- The README does not say how its feature set compares with Tenable Nessus.
- The license file was not provided, so the MIT license comes only from the host's report.
- The README does not state whether the Pro and Enterprise editions are under a different license.