SearchSploit: find public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software

by do son · Published September 4, 2017 · Updated November 4, 2024

“Searchsploit” is a command-line search tool for Exploit-DB, which also allows you to bring a copy of Exploit-DB with you.

SearchSploit provides you with the ability to perform detailed offline searches in locally saved repositories.This capability is particularly useful for security assessment of the network without Internet access. Many vulnerabilities contain links to binary files that are not included in the standard repository but can be found in our Exploit-DB binaries.

SearchSploit is available in Kali Linux. You can get the full tutorial here.

Usage

searchsploit -h

  Usage: searchsploit [options] term1 [term2] ... [termN]



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 Examples 

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  searchsploit afd windows local

  searchsploit -t oracle windows

  searchsploit -p 39446

  searchsploit linux kernel 3.2 --exclude="(PoC)|/dos/"



  For more examples, see the manual: https://www.exploit-db.com/searchsploit/



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 Options 

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   -c, --case     [Term]      Perform a case-sensitive search (Default is inSEnsITiVe).

   -e, --exact    [Term]      Perform an EXACT match on exploit title (Default is AND) [Implies "-t"].

   -h, --help                 Show this help screen.

   -j, --json     [Term]      Show result in JSON format.

   -m, --mirror   [EDB-ID]    Mirror (aka copies) an exploit to the current working directory.

   -o, --overflow [Term]      Exploit titles are allowed to overflow their columns.

   -p, --path     [EDB-ID]    Show the full path to an exploit (and also copies the path to the clipboard if possible).

   -t, --title    [Term]      Search JUST the exploit title (Default is title AND the file's path).

   -u, --update               Check for and install any exploitdb package updates (deb or git).

   -w, --www      [Term]      Show URLs to Exploit-DB.com rather than the local path.

   -x, --examine  [EDB-ID]    Examine (aka opens) the exploit using $PAGER.

       --colour               Disable colour highlighting in search results.

       --id                   Display the EDB-ID value rather than local path.

       --nmap     [file.xml]  Checks all results in Nmap's XML output with service version (e.g.: nmap -sV -oX file.xml).

                                Use "-v" (verbose) to try even more combinations

       --exclude="term"       Remove values from results. By using "|" to separated you can chain multiple values.

                                e.g. --exclude="term1|term2|term3".



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 Notes 

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 * You can use any number of search terms.

 * Search terms are not case-sensitive (by default), and ordering is irrelevant.

   * Use '-c' if you wish to reduce results by case-sensitive searching.

   * And/Or '-e' if you wish to filter results by using an exact match.

 * Use '-t' to exclude the file's path to filter the search results.

   * Remove false positives (especially when searching using numbers - i.e. versions).

 * When updating or displaying help, search terms will be ignored.