Baibhav Anand Jha

Nuclei: A Bug Bounty Tool

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5 min readMay 2, 2021

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Nuclei is a tool by Project Discovery. It is a very powerful tool that helps automate vulnerability scanning, reconnaissance and penetration testing easily. It scans stuff based on the template a user provides. Project discovery also has a dedicated repository that houses various types of vulnerability templates contributed by more than 100 security researchers and engineers.

Installation process

To download Nuclei in your Operating System, you need to visit the official website of Project Discovery where you will find different ways to install nuclei in your system.

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/releases

You can install it using Go, Brew, Docker, GitHub or you can get the Binary for your Operating System using the URL provided in the above link.

The process to install Nuclei using Go is shown below.

First, you need to open your terminal and paste the link provided to install nuclei from the above link.

Installing Nuclei

You need to move the binary to /usr/local/bin. You need to provide root privilege to move the file.

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