Extending Metaploit 3.0 to Vulnerability Scanning

[mmiller at hick.org (mmiller at hick.org)]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:45:51AM -0700, jonathan roeder wrote:
> Why can't we just integrate Nmap into the Metaploit vulnerability engine 

You can.  The recon modules can be backed against any arbitrary
mechanism.  You could even back it against nessus if you wanted to.  The
point is that the recon modules provide a generic interface for
providing the correlation engine with information about a network and
specific hosts.