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secator is a task and workflow runner used for security assessments. It supports dozens of well-known security tools and it is designed to improve productivity for pentesters and security researchers.

Features

• Curated list of commands

• Unified input options

• Unified output schema

• CLI and library usage

• Distributed options with Celery

• Complexity from simple tasks to complex workflows

• Customizable

Supported tools

secator integrates the following tools:

Feel free to request new tools to be added by opening an issue, but please check that the tool complies with our selection criterias before doing so. If it doesn't but you still want to integrate it into secator, you can plug it in (see the dev guide).

Installing secator

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freelabz/secator/main/scripts/install_universal.sh)"

pipx install secator

pip install secator

docker run -it --rm --net=host -v ~/.secator:/root/.secator freelabz/secator --help

alias secator="docker run -it --rm --net=host -v ~/.secator:/root/.secator freelabz/secator"

secator --help

git clone https://github.com/freelabz/secator
cd secator
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec secator-client secator --help

Note: If you chose the Docker or Docker Compose installation methods, you can skip the next sections and go straight to Usage.

Usage

secator --help

Usage examples

To get a complete cheatsheet of what you can do with secator, please read the output of:

secator cheatsheet

Run a fuzzing task (ffuf):

secator x ffuf http://testphp.vulnweb.com/FUZZ

Run a url crawl workflow:

secator w url_crawl http://testphp.vulnweb.com

Run a host scan:

secator s host mydomain.com

To list all tasks / workflows / scans that you can use:

secator x --help
secator w --help
secator s --help

To figure out which languages or tools are installed on your system (along with their version):

secator health

Queries

secator lets you query all previous reports with the secator query (or secator q) command, and re-use queries.

secator q <arg> resolves its argument in three steps:

1. Saved query name — if <arg> matches a saved query, its expression is used.
2. Filter expression — if <arg> looks like a filter (contains ==, <, ~=, &&, …), it is passed straight through.
3. Natural language — otherwise it is sent to AI chat (secator x ai --mode chat).

# Run raw expressions directly
secator q "vulnerability.tags ~= 'kev' && vulnerability.confidence == 'high'"                                                     # vulns KEV (Known-Exploited Vulnerabilities) + high confidence
secator q "vulnerability.severity == 'critical' && vulnerability.tags ~= 'exploitable' && vulnerability.confidence == 'high'"     # vulns critical + exploitable + high confidence
secator q "vulnerability.severity_nb < 2 && vulnerability.confidence == 'high'"                                                   # vulns severity > high + high confidence
secator q "exploit.cves  ~= 'CVE-2021-44521'"                                                                                       # exploits found for vuln CVE-2021-44521
secator q "port" -f "{host} {port} {service_name}" | cut -d " " -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 15                      # top 15 ports
secator q "port" -f "{host} {port} {service_name}" | cut -d " " -f3,4,5,6 | awk 'NF > 0' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 15 # top 15 services
secator q "technology" -f "{product}/{version}" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 15                                          # top 15 technologies
secator q "port.state == 'open'" -rf scans/23,tasks/10                                                                            # only results from scan 23 and task 10

# Save a query and run it
secator c set queries.critical_vulns "vulnerability.severity_nb < 2"          # save a query
secator c get queries                                                         # list saved queries
secator q critical_vulns -f "{vulnerability.matched_at}" -ws secator.cloud    # run a saved query on workspace + extract targets

# Ask a natural-language question (runs the AI chat task)
secator q "Analyze my workspace data"

secator q accepts the same options as secator r show (-o/--output, -d/--time-delta, -f/--format, -w/-ws/--workspace, --driver, --dedupe), plus -rf/--report-filter to scope the query to specific runner paths (the equivalent of r show's REPORT_QUERY argument). On the AI-chat path only the workspace and prompt are used.

Shell completion

secator supports shell completion for bash, zsh, and fish. This provides auto-completion for:

• Task names (e.g., nmap, httpx, nuclei)
• Workflow names (e.g., url_crawl, subdomain_recon)
• Scan names (e.g., host, domain, network)
• CLI options like --profiles, --workspace, --driver, --output

To install shell completion:

Bash:

secator util completion --shell bash --install
source ~/.bashrc

Zsh:

secator util completion --shell zsh --install
source ~/.zshrc

Fish:

secator util completion --shell fish --install

After installation, you can use tab completion:

secator x n<TAB>     # completes to nmap, naabu, nuclei, etc.
secator w url_<TAB>     # completes to url_crawl, url_fuzz, url_dirsearch, etc.
secator x nmap --profiles ag<TAB>  # completes to aggressive

Installing tools

secator auto-installs tools when you first use them. You can prevent this behavior by setting security.autoinstall_commands to false using either secator config set security.autoinstall_commands false or SECATOR_SECURITY_AUTOINSTALL_COMMANDS=0.

To install all tools, you can still run:

secator install tools

Installing addons

Addons are available for secator, please check our docs for details.

For instance, using the mongodb addon allows you to send runner results to MongoDB.

Learn more

To go deeper with secator, check out:

• Our complete documentation
• Our getting started tutorial video
• Our Medium post
• Follow us on social media: @freelabz on Twitter and @FreeLabz on YouTube

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