Vulnerability Scanning & Assessment

Vulnerability Scanning & Assessment is a skill for Claude Code from Masriyan/Claude-Code-CyberSecurity-Skill. It costs 26 tokens per session (3,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review assistant that checks software dependencies, settings, and scan results for known weaknesses. It identifies CVEs, which are public records of software vulnerabilities, and ranks their severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit files such as package.json or requirements.txt, review nginx, SSH, Docker, or Kubernetes settings, assess CVSS severity, and check software versions against known exploits.
Why use it?
It helps find security problems before they are missed in a long list of packages or configuration files. It also turns findings into a prioritized report with specific fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cybersecurity plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit files such as package.json or requirements.txt, review nginx…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/masriyan/claude-code-cybersecurity-skill/02-vulnerability-scanner
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 Masriyan/Claude-Code-CyberSecurity-Skill --skill 02-vulnerability-scanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Masriyan/Claude-Code-CyberSecurity-Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/masriyan/claude-code-cybersecurity-skill/02-vulnerability-scanner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/masriyan/claude-code-cybersecurity-skill/02-vulnerability-scanner.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,144 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00026 $0.03144
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01572
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00314

Measured 7d ago against content hash d4a5b5848869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Vulnerability Scanning & Assessment scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/config_auditor.py, scripts/cvss_calculator.py, scripts/dependency_auditor.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

[ ] USER — Must not run as root; add non-root user

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/02-vulnerability-scanner/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vulnerability Scanning & Assessment

Purpose

Enable Claude to perform comprehensive vulnerability assessments by directly analyzing dependency files, configuration files, and scan output — then generating prioritized, actionable reports. Claude identifies vulnerabilities, calculates risk, and prescribes remediation with version specifics.


Activation Triggers

This skill activates when the user asks about:

  • Scanning dependencies for known CVEs
  • Auditing requirements.txt, package.json, go.mod, pom.xml, Cargo.toml
  • Reviewing server configurations for security issues
  • CVSS scoring or severity calculation
  • Vulnerability assessment or security audit reports
  • Checking software versions against known exploits
  • Configuration hardening for nginx, Apache, SSH, Docker, Kubernetes
  • NVD, OSV, or CVE database queries

Prerequisites

pip install requests packaging jinja2 pyyaml

Optional enhanced tools:

  • nuclei — Template-based vulnerability scanner
  • trivy — Container and filesystem scanner
  • nmap with NSE scripts — Network vuln scanning
  • openvas — Full vulnerability management

Core Capabilities

1. Dependency Vulnerability Auditing

Claude can directly read and analyze dependency files:

When the user asks to audit dependencies:

  1. Read the dependency file using Claude's Read tool or ask the user to paste it
  2. Identify package manager from file format:
    • requirements.txt / Pipfile.lock / pyproject.toml → Python/pip
    • package.json / package-lock.json / yarn.lock → Node.js/npm
    • go.mod / go.sum → Go modules
    • pom.xml / build.gradle → Java/Maven/Gradle
    • Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock → Rust/Cargo
    • Gemfile.lock → Ruby/Bundler
    • composer.lock → PHP/Composer
  3. Extract exact versions for all direct and transitive dependencies
  4. Query vulnerability databases — Claude can search NVD API, OSV, and GitHub Advisory Database for each package+version combination
  5. Calculate CVSS v3.1 severity for each finding
  6. Check for available patches — identify the minimum safe version
  7. Generate prioritized remediation report

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 321 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A d4a5b5848869

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Vulnerability Scanning & Assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository Masriyan/Claude-Code-CyberSecurity-Skill (397 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 3,144 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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