redteam-cve-validation

redteam-cve-validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw. It costs 42 tokens per session (501 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security research guide for checking whether a candidate CVE, or known software vulnerability, fits the observed product, version, configuration, and authorized target.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify a CVE as usable, patched, inapplicable, or needing more reconnaissance while keeping checks within the declared scope.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported conclusions and unsafe testing when the available evidence is incomplete or the issue may already be fixed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to classify a CVE as usable, patched, inapplicable, or needing more reconnaissance while keeping checks within the declared scope.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/netw0rknoob/vulnclaw/redteam-cve-validation
About the project

VulnClaw is an AI-driven command-line penetration-testing agent that turns natural-language instructions into an automated workflow for reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and report generation. It is intended for authorized penetration tests, CTF competitions, security teaching, and red-team exercises, using LLMs and MCP tools. The catalogue contains its specialized skills for security-testing tasks.

Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw · 3,309 stars · on GitHub · unclecheng-li.github.io

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 Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw --skill redteam-cve-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 501 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.00501
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash f00a98838e9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redteam-cve-validation 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

vulnclaw/skills/specialized/redteam-cve-validation/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CVE Validation

Domain

Validate candidate CVEs against the current target evidence without assuming exploitability. The module consumes cve_candidate_list, product/version evidence, service fingerprints, and scope data, then decides whether the CVE path is usable, patched, not applicable, or needs more recon.

Trigger

cve_candidate_list_ready

Feedback Gates

  • Scope Gate: target and asset must be in the declared authorization boundary.
  • Evidence Gate: candidate CVE must map to observed product, version, endpoint, service, or fingerprint evidence.
  • Applicability Gate: version range, configuration, and reachable component must plausibly match.
  • Patch Gate: observed version or vendor advisory must not prove the issue fixed.
  • Execution Gate: active validation requires a registered scoped adapter; missing adapters block rather than pretending execution happened.

Boundaries

  • Do not run destructive or broad exploit attempts.
  • Do not validate outside the declared target and scope.
  • Do not treat CVE names alone as proof.
  • Prefer passive or low-noise confirmation first.
  • If evidence is insufficient, return to recon or CVE lookup rather than guessing.

Pivot Hints

  • Candidate has no product/version match -> return to recon-intake for better fingerprinting.
  • Candidate is patched or not applicable -> route by highest-ranked attack surface from recon.
  • Tool or adapter missing -> record missing capability and request/choose an equivalent adapter.
  • Too many candidates -> rank by reachable component, confidence, impact, and version fit.

Exit Conditions

  • Confirmed applicable candidate -> continue to the specific validation/testing skill.
  • All candidates patched/not applicable -> exit to evidence-based router.
  • Evidence incomplete -> return to recon-intake or cve-lookup.
  • Required tool/scope/adapter missing -> block with the missing capability or scope evidence.

Exit Evidence

  • Required: cve_validation_result
  • Optional: cve_patch_status, applicability_proof, non_applicability_reason
  • min_attempts: 1

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f00a98838e9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

redteam-cve-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw (3,309 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 501 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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