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rekono-kbx

2.0.0-1 open-source

Offensive security platform that automates attack surfaceattack surfaceThe exposed systems, interfaces and access points an attacker could try to use. It includes internet-facing services as well as identities, software and other reachable resources. discovery and vulnerability management

Summary

rekono-kbx is an open-source platform that orchestrates existing pentesting tools like Nuclei, Gobuster, and Spring4Shell Scan into automated workflows across one or more targets, consolidating recon and scanning into a single task pipeline. It runs as a self-hosted web application with background workers, and can also be installed as a standalone desktop app on Linux, MacOS, and Windows for users who prefer a local client over a server deployment. It is built for pentesters and red teamers who otherwise juggle separate recon tools by hand, covering triage of findings as true positive, false positive, or won't-fix, report generation in PDF, JSON, or XML, and enrichment via VirusTotal, HackTricks, and CVE Crowd. First committed in 2021, it has 7 contributors and remains active, with 179 commits and 4 releases in the past year, the latest 42 days ago.

Offensive security platform that automates attack surface discovery and vulnerability management

How rekono-kbx helps

Which hosts and services on a target scope have exploitable findings worth chasing?

chains recon and scanning tools end to end against the defined targets and consolidates what each tool reports into a single finding set, correlating hosts, ports and vulnerabilities as the chain runs

Has anything changed since the last time a target was assessed?

tracks each finding's exposure window across executions and marks a finding fixed automatically once later runs stop reporting it, so re-running a target shows what's new, persistent or resolved

Are any of the CVEs turning up on this engagement actually being talked about right now?

cross-checks detected CVEs against CVE Crowd and flags the ones trending on social media, alongside CVSS and NVD enrichment pulled in for each finding

Which findings still need a decision before they go in the report?

lets a practitioner triage every finding as true positive, false positive or won't fix with a comment, and only the triaged set feeds into generated reports

How do I get a client-ready report out of a completed engagement without writing it by hand?

generates PDF, JSON or XML output filtered by the criteria chosen, using a customisable HTML template for the PDF form

Who needs to know the moment a specific kind of finding shows up during a long-running engagement?

matches new findings against saved alert criteria and pushes a notification to that alert's subscribers as soon as a match is discovered

all 25 features, with the evidence for each →

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Features

25 capabilities

Built from rekono-kbx's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What rekono-kbx offers you

  • Web management console2
  • GraphQL API support1
  • JSON data export1
  • Scheduled jobs1
All capabilities 25 capabilities
NVD Enrichment shipped Supports NVD NIST API keys to raise rate limits and accelerate CVE enrichment. 9 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release 9 total

  • Adds support for NVD NIST API keys to raise rate limits and accelerate CVE enrichment. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Enrich vulnerabilities with CVSS score/vector, EPSS score/percentile, CWEs and remediation data 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Enriches vulnerabilities with CVSS score and vector, EPSS score and percentile, CWEs, and CVE remediation guidance. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Support NVD NIST API keys for rate limits and faster enrichment 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds support for NVD NIST API keys to increase rate limits and speed up CVE enrichment. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Integrate with EU Vulnerability Database to enrich vulnerability CVE data 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Web Interface shipped Provides a browser-based interface for managing the platform, including initial UI components and theme support. 7 releases · 1 other source · first seen Aug 2022

Also counts toward: Web management console

release 7 total

  • Adds light and dark UI themes. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • TLS certificates in Docker deployments are now kept in a volume instead of the docker/nginx/tls directory — existing certificate placements must be migrated. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds light and dark UI themes. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Light and dark UI themes 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Removes Rekono Desktop (Electron apps and Debian package); Rekono is now deployed via Docker or from source only. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds a Settings page to configure Defect-Dojo, Telegram, and security properties 1.2.0 · Nov 2022 · source · release history

example

  • Configure external integrations for Defect-Dojo and Telegram notifications via the UI. Navigate to the `Settings` page in the web interface to update Defect-Dojo, Telegram, and security properties. 1.2.0 · Nov 2022 · source
Nuclei Integration shipped Adds support for executing Nuclei tool workflows. 5 releases · 2 other sources · first seen Jan 2023

release

  • Configure proxies for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and all protocols during executions 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Customize the HTML template used to generate PDF reports 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Generate reports in PDF, JSON or XML filtered by user criteria 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Generates reports in PDF, JSON, or XML filtered by user-defined criteria, with support for customizable HTML templates for PDF output. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds support for Nuclei tool execution 1.4.0 · Jan 2023 · source · release history

example

  • Configure proxy settings for all scanning executions. Settings > Integrations/Executions > Proxies > Configure HTTP/HTTPS/FTP addresses 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source
  • Filter findings by criteria to generate a report for stakeholders. Select Findings > Filter > Export as PDF/JSON/XML 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source
External Intelligence Integration shipped Surfaces related external resources by integrating with HackTricks wiki and CVE Crowd trending data. 6 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Integrates with HackTricks to link identified assets with related wiki resources. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Integrates with CVE Crowd to identify which detected CVEs are trending on social media. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Integrate with HackTricks to link assets to wiki resources 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds integration with HackTricks to surface related wiki resources alongside identified assets. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds integration with CVE Crowd to flag which detected CVEs are currently trending on social media. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Use CVE Crowd to identify which detected CVEs are trending on social media 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
System Monitoring shipped Provides administrators with queue status, statistics, and expanded metrics pages with KPIs. 6 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • New metrics pages with additional KPIs and stats 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Administrators can now inspect queue status and statistics. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds expanded metrics pages with additional KPIs and statistics. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Check queue status and stats as an administrator 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds expanded metrics pages with additional KPIs and statistics. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds administrator queue status and stats dashboard. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Finding Triage shipped Allows practitioners to mark findings as true positive, false positive, or won't fix with comments. 4 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • New monitor job to keep CVEs up to date and clean stale executions 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds dedicated finding detail pages showing finding metadata, exposure window, and related findings. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds finding triage workflow allowing practitioners to mark each finding as true positive, false positive, or won't fix with a supporting comment. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds automatic and manual fixed status for findings: Rekono marks a finding fixed when subsequent executions stop reporting it. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
HTTP Header Customization shipped Allows per-instance, per-user, and per-target customization of HTTP headers sent by tools. 4 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Supports per-instance, per-user, and per-target customization of HTTP headers sent by tools. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds per-instance, per-user, and per-target customisation of HTTP headers sent by tools during executions. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds proxy configuration for executions, individually configurable for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and all protocols. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Supports proxy customization for executions, configurable per protocol: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and all protocols. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Alerting shipped Notifies subscribers when a discovered finding matches specific alert criteria. 3 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Alerting system that notifies subscribers when a finding matches specific criteria 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds an alerting system that notifies each alert's subscribers when a finding matches the alert's criteria. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds an alerting system that notifies each alert's subscribers when a discovered finding matches the alert's criteria. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Auto Enrichment shipped Runs background jobs to keep CVE-linked vulnerabilities up to date and purges stale executions. 3 releases · first seen Aug 2026

Also counts toward: Scheduled jobs

release

  • Adds a monitor background job that keeps CVE-linked vulnerabilities up to date and purges stale executions. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds a monitor background job that keeps CVE-linked vulnerabilities up to date and cleans stale executions. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • The tasks-queue, executions-queue, and findings-queue queues are renamed to tasks, executions, and findings — any external queue tooling referencing the old names will break. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
HTTP Redirect Resolution shipped Follows redirects when resolving URLs so tools execute against the final destination. 3 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Limit execution scope using a path in the target port 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds redirect-following when resolving URLs so tools execute against the final destination. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds path scoping to target ports to limit execution scope. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Target Detail Management shipped Provides capabilities to manage target details, including popups for port/endpoint info and path fields. 3 releases · first seen Jan 2023

Also counts toward: Web management console

release

  • Adds a path field on target ports to limit execution scope. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds per-finding detail pages showing finding metadata, exposure window, and related findings. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds new popup for the management of target details in the web interface 1.4.0 · Jan 2023 · source · release history
Wordlist Management shipped Provides default wordlists covering CMS, APIs, GraphQL, and specific services. 3 releases · first seen Aug 2026

Also counts toward: GraphQL API support

release

  • Adds new default wordlists covering CMS, APIs, GraphQL, and specific services. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • New default wordlists for CMS, APIs, GraphQL and specific services 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds new default wordlists for CMS, APIs, GraphQL, and specific services. 2.0.0 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Note Taking shipped Adds pentesting notes linkable to any entity, supporting rich-text content. 2 releases · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds pentesting notes linkable to any Rekono entity, with a rich-text editor supporting code blocks, tables, task lists, and images. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Link pentesting notes to other entities using a rich text editor (code blocks, tables, task lists, images) 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Port Configuration shipped Allows users to view and edit the configuration of specific open ports during a scan. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Nov 2022

release

example

  • View and edit the configuration of specific open ports during a scan without leaving the main view. In the web interface, click on a target entry to open the management popup for port details. 1.3.0 · Nov 2022 · source
Bulk Target Management shipped Allows the creation of multiple targets simultaneously via a single operation. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Oct 2022

release

  • Adds the ability to create multiple targets at the same time via a single operation. 1.1.0 · Oct 2022 · source · release history

example

  • Create several targets in one go without repeated API calls or UI clicks. POST /api/v1/targets with an array of target objects 1.1.0 · Oct 2022 · source
Bulk Task Execution shipped Enables the execution of the same task workflow across a group of targets simultaneously. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Oct 2022

release

  • Adds the ability to execute tasks against multiple targets at the same time. 1.1.0 · Oct 2022 · source · release history

example

  • Run the same task workflow across a group of targets simultaneously to save time. POST /api/v1/tasks with a list of target IDs in the 'targets' field 1.1.0 · Oct 2022 · source
Execution Metrics shipped Displays the duration of each task execution directly within the interface. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Oct 2022

release

example

  • View how long each task execution took directly on the interface. In the console, go to Tasks and look for the duration column in the task list view. 1.1.0 · Oct 2022 · source
Auto Finding Creation shipped Automatically creates findings from user-provided data to maintain consistent finding relationships. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds automatic creation of findings from user-provided data (targets, target ports, input technologies) to maintain consistent finding relationships. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Execution Visualization shipped Visualizes the exact commands executed by each task execution. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds visualisation of the exact commands executed by each execution. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Original Artifact Retention shipped Allows downloading the original unmodified reports generated by integrated tools for each task execution. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds download of the original reports generated by each tool. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Report Generation shipped Generates assessment reports in PDF, JSON, or XML formats filtered by user criteria, with support for custom HTML templates. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

Also counts toward: JSON data export

release

  • Adds report generation in PDF, JSON, or XML filtered by the user's criteria, with support for customising the HTML template used to produce PDF reports. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
VirusTotal Integration shipped Integrates with VirusTotal to retrieve reputation, malicious-analysis results, and WHOIS data. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds integration with VirusTotal to retrieve reputation, malicious-analysis results, and WHOIS data for discovered hosts. 2.0.0-1 · Aug 2026 · source · release history
Authenticated Scanning shipped Supports authenticated scans using different authentication types during target configuration. 1 release · first seen Jan 2023

release

  • Adds support for authenticated scans using different authentication types to target configuration 1.4.0 · Jan 2023 · source · release history
Gobuster Integration shipped Adds support for executing Gobuster tool workflows. 1 release · first seen Jan 2023

release

Spring4Shell Detection shipped Adds support for detecting Spring4Shell vulnerabilities via specific scan tools. 1 release · first seen Jan 2023

release

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for rekono-kbx, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
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    Project health

    Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in pablosnt/rekono, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.

    1. Contributors 2 ±0 vs prior 12 months
    2. Maintainers 2 +2 joined · −1 left, last 12 months
    3. Bus factor 1 committers behind half the commits
    4. Community-filed 14% of issues opened, last 12 months
    5. Median time to close 2.2 days first maintainer reply 12 hours
    6. Open backlog 1 of 115 issues ever filed
    1. Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
    2. Open backlog 1
    3. Contributors / month 1
    4. Commits / month 3
    5. Stars 608
    Issue themes, last 12 months
    • bugs 14%
    • features 36%
    • other 50%

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