shodan-vuln-scan

shodan-vuln-scan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GangGreenTemperTatum/shodan-mcp-server. It costs 56 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Shodan-based skill finds vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems using known CVE records. CVEs are public identifiers for specific software security flaws.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized vulnerability assessments, CVE searches, version checks, exploit research, patch verification, and vulnerability reports.
Why use it?
It helps identify exposed systems that may run vulnerable software and prioritize risks based on severity and available exploits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for authorized vulnerability assessments, CVE searches, version checks, exploit research, patch verification, and vulnerability reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ganggreentempertatum/shodan-mcp-server/shodan-vuln-scan
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.

Any agent
npx skills add GangGreenTemperTatum/shodan-mcp-server --skill shodan-vuln-scan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GangGreenTemperTatum/shodan-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00056 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3d1c742ad6ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shodan-vuln-scan 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 11d 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.

skills/shodan-vuln-scan/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shodan Vulnerability Scanner Skill

Identify and assess vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems using Shodan's vulnerability database.

When to Use

  • Vulnerability assessments on authorized targets
  • CVE impact analysis
  • Security posture evaluation
  • Patch management verification
  • Threat intelligence gathering

Workflow

  1. Scope Definition

    • Define target scope (IPs, domains, organizations)
    • Verify authorization
    • Check API credits
  2. Vulnerability Discovery

    • Search for specific CVEs: vuln:CVE-YYYY-NNNN
    • Search for vulnerable products
    • Use facets to aggregate vulnerability data
  3. Host Analysis

    • Use shodan_host_info to get vulnerability details
    • Analyze service versions against known CVEs
    • Check for outdated software
  4. Exploit Availability

    • Use shodan_exploits_search to find public exploits
    • Identify high-risk vulnerabilities with available exploits
    • Assess exploit complexity and requirements
  5. Risk Assessment

    • Prioritize based on severity and exploitability
    • Consider exposure level (internet-facing vs internal)
    • Evaluate business impact
  6. Reporting

    • Provide vulnerability matrix
    • Include remediation recommendations
    • Track historical vulnerability data

Common Vulnerability Queries

Critical CVEs

vuln:CVE-2021-44228  # Log4Shell
vuln:CVE-2020-1472   # Zerologon
vuln:CVE-2017-0144   # EternalBlue

Vulnerable Web Servers

"apache/2.4.49" vuln:CVE-2021-41773
"nginx" vuln:CVE-2021-23017

Exposed Management Interfaces

title:"Dashboard" http.component:"admin"
title:"Login" port:8443

Weak SSL/TLS

ssl.version:sslv2
ssl.version:sslv3
ssl.cipher:export

Default Credentials

"default password"
http.html:"default password"

Unpatched Systems

org:"Example Corp" os:"Windows Server 2003"
org:"Example Corp" os:"CentOS 6"

Exploit Database Queries

Find Exploits by CVE

CVE-2021-44228

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 160 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 3d1c742ad6ce

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shodan-vuln-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository GangGreenTemperTatum/shodan-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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