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growing and diverse set of scripts distributed with Nmap, or write
their own to meet custom needs.</para>
<para>NSE was designed to be versatile so these are some of the tasks we had in mind when creating the system:</para>
<para>We designed NSE to to versatile, with the following tasks in mind</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
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is able to recognize thousands of different services through
its probe and regular expression based matching system, but it
cannot recognize everything. For example, identifying the Skype v2 service requires two
independent probes which version detection isn't flexible enough to handle. Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services
independent probes, which version detection isn't flexible enough to handle. Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services
if it tried a few hundred different community names by brute
force. Neither of these tasks are well suited to traditional
Nmap version detection but are particularly easy accomplish with
NSE. Because of this, version detection now seamlessly calls NSE by
Nmap version detection, but both are easily accomplished with
NSE. For these reasons, version detection now calls NSE by
default to handle some tricky services. This is described in
<xref linkend="nse-vscan"/>.</para>
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before the bad guys do. While Nmap isn't a
comprehensive <ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://sectools.org/vuln-scanners.html">vulnerability scanner</ulink>,
NSE is powerful enough to handle even demanding vulnerability
checks. A few vulnerability detection scripts have already been
written and we plan to distribute additional scripts for very severe
or common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
checks. Many vulnerability detection scripts have already been
written and we plan to distribute more as they are written.
</para>
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</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
The listed items are just the initial script classes. It is
likely that Nmap users will come up with even more inventive
uses for NSE.
The listed items were our initial goals, but we expect that Nmap
users will come up with inventive uses for NSE.
</para>
<print><note><para>The Nmap Scripting Engine is a new Nmap feature