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paragraphs.  I'll be going through the rest of the chapter if time
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growing and diverse set of scripts distributed with Nmap, or write
their own to meet custom needs.</para>
<para>Tasks we had in mind when creating the system include:</para>
<para>NSE was designed to be versatile so these are some of the tasks we had in mind when creating the system:</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. 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 both are easily accomplished with
NSE. For these reasons, version detection now calls NSE by
Nmap version detection but are particularly easy accomplish with
NSE. Because of this, version detection now seamlessly calls NSE by
default to handle some tricky services. This is described in
<xref linkend="nse-vscan"/>.</para>
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<para>When a new vulnerability is discovered, you often want
to scan your networks quickly to identify vulnerable systems
before the bad guys do. While Nmap isn't a
comprehensive <ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://sectools.org/vuln-scanners.html">vulnerability scanner</ulink>, we plan to distribute scripts for some very severe or common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.</para>
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.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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posted an Nmap version detection probe and
signature so that others could quickly scan their networks.
For more complex worms and backdoors, NSE is needed
instead.
for reliable detection.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>Vulnerability exploitation</term>
<listitem>
<para>
As a general scripting language, NSE could even
As a general scripting language, NSE can even
be used to exploit vulnerabilities rather than just find them.
The capability to add custom exploit scripts may be valuable
for some people (particularly