The Metasploit Project

Metasploit provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and security professionals. The tools and information on this site are provided for legal security research and testing purposes only. Metasploit is a community project managed by Metasploit LLC.


Jan-01-2009: Happy New Year!

   The Metasploit Project is celebrating the new year with a series of updates to the metasploit.com web site and services. Stay tuned as updates are rolled out.

Oct-10-2008: Metasploit 3.2 Released

   The Metasploit development team is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2 of the Metasploit Framework. This release is the first version of Metasploit to be provided under a true open source license (BSD) and represents over ten months of work by the development team. Metasploit 3.2 can be obtained from the Downloads page.

The Metasploit Blog

Jan-04-2009 - Scanning for MD5-signed SSL Certificates (hdm)
Jan-03-2009 - Fuzzing Flash For Fun (ASNative) (hdm)
Dec-18-2008 - Add synergy with symport (Pusscat)
Dec-15-2008 - Metasploit Decloak v2 (UnAnonymizer) (hdm)
Nov-12-2008 - MS08-068: Metasploit and SMB Relay (hdm)
Oct-13-2008 - Uninformed Journal Volume 10 (hdm)
Oct-10-2008 - Metasploit 3.2 BSD Licensing (hdm)
Sep-25-2008 - Metasploit (2**5/10.0) (hdm)

Metasploit Framework Development

Jan-05-2009 - Changeset [6076]: updated with the authors email address.
Jan-05-2009 - Changeset [6075]: Added tmlisten_traversal aux module from Ans...
Jan-05-2009 - Changeset [6074]: added exploit modules djvu_imageurl.rb, mswo...
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6073]: added exploit modules ca_brightstor_addcolum...
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6072]: Add 127.0.0.1 -> ::1 conversion for IPv4-...
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6071]: set svn:executable
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6070]: typo
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6069]: set @mythread=nil in stop_thread so the corr...
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6068]: fix command description
Jan-04-2009 - Changeset [6067]: pass opts to real write