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