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OWASP's VulnXML Database

Posted by michael on from the autocracker dept.

Ingo Struck writes "The Open Web Application Security Project released the VulnXML db for early access to the public. VulnXML is a description of static known vulnerabilities. It provides all necessary information to let an execution engine automatically craft and launch appropriate HTTP, SOAP or WebDAV requests and analyse the response whether the attack had success. Besides it provides some human readable classification of the described vulnerability. A tool to execute VulnXML records is currently being developed and will help developers to check their web applications against a suite of well-known vulnerabilities described in a portable format."

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  1. well... by LittleBigLui · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It provides all necessary information to let an execution engine automatically craft and launch appropriate HTTP, SOAP or WebDAV requests and analyse the response whether the attack had success.


    so we've just replaced script kiddies with a (very small) shell script?
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    Free as in mason.
  2. Yet another.. why? by Knightmare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I honestly don't see the purpose in this site or the tool being developed to use it. I use Nessus on a daily basis and it seems to work just fine for this task.

    I mean what more could you ask for... a client/server based vuln. scanner that will give you reports in xml, csv, txt, html, doc... Since the site and database has been created, maybe you should just write a program that exports the exploit tests as Nessus nasl scripts so we can do the tests and Snort rules so we can detect testing.