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13531 :: My Little Nim Security App for Kali

• 0x57Origin (orginal) [2025-12-01T06:01:54+01:00] view original

  I threw together a tiny Nim app called KaliSentry...... It’s basically a quick security checker for Kali. I made it half for fun, half because I gotta present something in one of my master’s classes.

  It just checks firewall stuff, SSH dumb settings, old services, updates, DNS, and folder perms. Nothing crazy, just yells at you if your Kali box is cooked.

  You use it by building with nimble build -y and then running ./kalisentry scan --lite. Or dump results to JSON with ./kalisentry scan --report results.json.

  GitHub: https://github.com/0x57Origin/KaliSentry

  I know y’all Nim folks don’t touch Kali, but I wanted to flex this anyway.

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• 0x57Origin (orginal) [2025-12-01T06:02:56+01:00] view original

  for a project for a masters course and to show off in a resume this thing prety much sucks but the main attraction comes from writing this thing in Nim lang

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• dlesnoff (orginal) [2025-12-01T11:01:29+01:00] view original

  What part of your software makes it specific to Kali Linux ? The list of services you check for example seems specific to any Systemd distribution. It could be more interesting if the list of services could be configured by the user (or administrator). Even better, if the list of services affected by recent CVEs could be updated according to some trusted website (with warnings if some services are removed from the list). The code lacks unittest from a first glance.

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• 0x57Origin (orginal) [2025-12-01T19:53:26+01:00] view original

  mannn thats a lot of work!

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• cblake (orginal) [2025-12-01T23:19:55+01:00] view original

  Actually, since it's a cligen thing I gave it a try on a no-systemd Gentoo Linux and it mostly worked. I didn't have dig installed (ping -H -c 1 might be more portable?) and I do my own home-rolled firewall not UFW.

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• 0x57Origin (orginal) [2025-12-02T05:09:22+01:00] view original

  I just realized what u suggested, mannnn cve pull up is some shit i can't do even if i do 100s of ai cop pilot its gonna be a mess unless u know how to do it?????

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• 0x57Origin (orginal) [2025-12-02T05:11:48+01:00] view original

  Did not realize Gentoo works too i just use kali so i tested on kali i didnt test on anything else and honestly i dont want to kinda 90% i feel like people use kali for cyber sec but i really appreciate you testing it out for real

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