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Project Summary
The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and includes components written in C, assembler, PHP, Python, and other languages.
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In a Nutshell, Metasploit Framework...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 454 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2006
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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Project Security
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Many reported vulnerabilities
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