# houndsploit **Repository Path**: mirrors_devzero2000/houndsploit ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: houndsploit - **Description**: An advanced graphical search engine for Exploit-DB - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: BSD-3-Clause - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2020-09-24 - **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # HoundSploit ![HoundSploit Logo](/HoundSploit/static/media/icon.png) Author: Nicolas Carolo Copyright: © 2020, Nicolas Carolo. Date: 2020-05-17 Version: 2.3.1 ## PURPOSE _HoundSploit_ is an advanced search engine for Exploit-DB developed in Python using Flask as micro web framework, born with the aim of showing the user the most accurate search results. ### Features * Effective version number filtering * Advanced filtering * Fast search * Search suggestions with customization * Syntax highlighting of the source code of exploits and shellcodes * Downloading of the source code of exploits and shellcodes * Highlighting of searched words in search results * Check for updates (both for software and database) #### News in HoundSploit 2 * Flask instead of Django * SQLAlchemy instead of Django ORM * The kernel of the search engine is the same used in [_hsploit_](https://github.com/nicolas-carolo/hsploit), which is the CLI version of HoundSploit * Dark and Light themes #### Effective version number filtering examples ##### Example I 11 exploits and 0 shellcodes found for "WordPress Core 2.0.2" ![Search example 1](/img/example-1.png) ##### Example II 15 exploits and 0 shellcodes found for "Linux Kernel 4.2.3" ![Search example 2](/img/example-2.png) #### Advanced filtering Using advanced search you can use the following filters for filtering search results: * Search operator: `AND` or `OR` * Author * Type * Platform * Port * Date interval ![Advanced filtering](/img/advanced-filtering.png) #### Search suggestion You can choose to show a particular suggestion for a given searched string. For each case you can also decide to use automatic replacement or not. It is possible to add new suggestions and delete the existing suggestions. ![Suggestions](/img/suggestions.png) #### Customization You can choose to use the Light or the Dark theme ![Light Theme](/img/light-theme.png) ![Dark Theme](/img/dark-theme.png) ## MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ### Supported OS * Linux * macOS * Windows (Preview) ### Interpreter and tools * Python 3 * SQLite 3 * git ## INSTALLATION ### Linux (non-root user) [recommended] In order to install _HoundSploit_ we have to run the following commands: ```sh $ git clone https://github.com/nicolas-carolo/houndsploit $ cd houndsploit $ ./install_db_linux.sh $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ python setup.py install ``` Now you can remove the repository of _HoundSploit_ you have downloaded, because this repository has been cloned in `~/.HoundSploit/houndsploit` for supporting automatic updates. If you have already installed the version 2.1.0 of _hsploit_ or you never installed _hsploit_, you can check if there is the directory `~/HoundSploit` and then you can delete it. ### Linux (root user) In order to install _HoundSploit_ we have to run the following commands: ```sh $ git clone https://github.com/nicolas-carolo/houndsploit $ cd houndsploit $ mkdir /root/.HoundSploit $ touch /root/.HoundSploit/enable_root.cfg $ ./install_db_linux.sh $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ python setup.py install ``` Now you can remove the repository of _HoundSploit_ you have downloaded, because this repository has been cloned in `~/.HoundSploit/houndsploit` for supporting automatic updates. If you have already installed the version 2.1.0 of _hsploit_ or you never installed _hsploit_, you can check if there is the directory `~/HoundSploit` and then you can delete it. ### macOS In order to install _HoundSploit_ we have to run the following commands: ```sh $ git clone https://github.com/nicolas-carolo/houndsploit $ cd houndsploit $ ./install_db_darwin.sh $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ python setup.py install ``` Now you can remove the repository of _HoundSploit_ you have downloaded, because this repository has been cloned in `~/.HoundSploit/houndsploit` for supporting automatic updates. If you have already installed the version 2.1.0 of _hsploit_ or you never installed _hsploit_, you can check if there is the directory `~/HoundSploit` and then you can delete it. ### Windows (Preview) Before proceding with the installation, be sure that you have installed Python from the [official site](https://www.python.org/downloads/) and not from the Windows Store Run a _PowerShell_ session as _Administrator_ ```powershell PS> git clone https://github.com/nicolas-carolo/houndsploit PS> cd houndsploit PS> powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install_db_windows.ps1 PS> pip install -r requirements.txt PS> python setup.py install ``` Now you can remove the repository of _HoundSploit_ you have downloaded, because this repository has been cloned in `~\.HoundSploit\houndsploit` for supporting automatic updates. ### Troubleshooting If you encounter problems during the installation phase, please run: ```sh $ rm -fr ~/.HoundSploit ``` and then repeat the installation phase. ## USAGE 1. Run _HoundSploit_ server: ```sh $ houndsploit ``` 2. Go to `http://localhost:5000` ## COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2020, Nicolas Carolo. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of the author of this software nor the names of contributors to this software may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written consent. 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