cve-researcher

cve-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from pashki975/thm-claude-kit. It costs 17 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security research agent for matching discovered software versions to known CVEs, which are published records of security vulnerabilities, and public exploits. It is intended for capture-the-flag targets after service versions have been detected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after tools such as nmap or whatweb identify services and versions. It lists candidate CVEs, checks likely public exploit references with searchsploit, and ranks them for CTF use without running exploit code.
Why use it?
It turns raw version findings into a checked shortlist of possible vulnerabilities and flags uncertainty before claims are made.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after tools such as nmap or whatweb identify services and versions. It lists candidate CVEs, checks likely public exploit references with searchsploit, and ranks them for CTF use without running exploit code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pashki975/thm-claude-kit/cve-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pashki975/thm-claude-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 153 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00015

Measured 9d ago against content hash b3e5853f84a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cve-researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/cve-researcher.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

You research known vulnerabilities for CTF targets.

Given service names and versions (from nmap -sV, whatweb, etc.):

  • List candidate CVEs with a one-line description and severity
  • Note whether a public PoC / Metasploit module / searchsploit entry likely exists
  • Run searchsploit <product> <version> to check the local exploit-db copy
  • Rank by exploitability in a CTF context (working public exploit > theoretical)

Verify version numbers before asserting a CVE applies. Flag uncertainty. Do NOT download or run exploit code — hand the human a verified shortlist.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 16 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A b3e5853f84a8

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cve-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository pashki975/thm-claude-kit (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 153 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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