Active OSI-approved OSS Security Security Scanning

Nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

Data confidence100/100
Source coverage100/100
Publish confidence100/100
Pricing checkedNo current pricing evidence
Score Breakdown

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These bars are a reader-facing view of the ToolVitals evidence model. They summarize maintenance, shipping, confidence, and decay signals. Hosted pricing evidence is shown separately.

Activity
Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
Reliability
Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
Adoption
Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
Sustainability
Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.
ToolVitals91/100Health91/100Shipping83/100Zombie Risk0/100
Overall Score 91 Active
Activity 83
Reliability 91
Adoption 91
Sustainability 91

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About this tool

What ToolVitals knows about Nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.

Source-visible project Security Scanning OSI-approved OSS Scored Intelligence
Repository

GitHub Activity

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projectdiscovery/nuclei
Stars 29,144
Forks 3,482
Watchers 29,144
Open Issues 112
Primary Language
Go
Last Commit
Today
Releases 90d
2
Default Branch
dev
License
MIT
Repository Status
Active repository
Evidence

Signal Quality

Data Confidence 100/100 Strong
Source Coverage 100/100 Strong
Publish Confidence 100/100 Strong

ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.

Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.

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Openness

License Evidence

Class
OSI-approved OSS
License
MIT
Pricing Scope
No hosted pricing tracked

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

Sources

Tracked Sources

Profile

Classification

Category
Security
Use Case
Security Scanning
Openness
OSI-approved OSS
License
MIT
Pricing Scope
No hosted pricing tracked
Tool Mode
Source-visible project
Score Model
Open Source Maintenance
Score Visibility
Scored Intelligence
Status
Active
Hosted Pricing

Pricing Evidence

Scope
No hosted pricing tracked
Free Tier
Not detected
Currency
USD
Tracked Plans
0
Maintainers

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open-sourceattack-surfacecve-scannerdasthacktoberfestnuclei-enginesecuritysecurity-scannersubdomain-takeovervulnerability-assessmentvulnerability-detectionvulnerability-scannerapi-firstapi-securitycloud-securityyaml-dsl

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