Yersinia (computing)
Yersinia - is a network security/hacking tool for Unix-like operating systems, designed to take advantage of some weakness in different network protocols. Yersinia is considered a valuable and widely used security tool. As of 2013 Yersinia is still under development with a latest stable version number 0.7.3 available only at GitHub source code repository.
Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented:
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
- IEEE 802.1Q
- IEEE 802.1X
- Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Yersinia was rated #59 at SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools
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