Repo-wide sweep of every user-facing string: frontend components, routes,
config and stores; API details and route docs; shared definitions and
models; stage config help; report prose; MCP, toolbox, interest and
connector text; notification and worker messages.
Descriptions that explained, reassured, justified or restated their title
are deleted. Confirm dialogs name what is removed and stop. Failed actions
read "<Noun> not <verbed>", successes "<Noun> <verbed>". No reader address,
no product-as-subject, no em-dashes or parentheticals in prose.
Mirrors updated on both sides: EPSS band help, compare refusal reasons,
interest labels. Four tests asserting on old wording follow the new text.
The rules are condensed into CLAUDE.md under Writing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SK5o8xR96cbSnAfjYSTPSe
Blind injection is invisible unless the target calls back, and reNgine had the
switch and the server field without either of the two things that make them
work.
nuclei's -interactions-cooldown-period defaults to 5 seconds: it stops polling
five seconds after its last request, so a callback a queue, a cron or a report
generator fires minutes later is never heard. oast_wait_minutes (default 5) is
the one operator-facing number and drives both that and -interactions-eviction,
because a request evicted from nuclei's cache before its callback arrives leaves
the callback with nothing to attribute it to — eviction is always the wait plus
slack.
A self-hosted server is normally token-gated and -interactsh-token was never
passed, so a configured server silently fell back to the public one and the
callbacks went somewhere the operator does not own. The token is an
APIProvider.INTERACTSH row — encrypted at rest and masked on read like every
other key — rather than a stage field, because an OAST server is instance
infrastructure, not a per-engine choice. _oast_server() reduces whatever is
typed to a bare host: nuclei wants the host, and a scheme or trailing path makes
it register nowhere and fall back without saying so.
redact_command now matches on how a flag ends rather than on the whole word.
-interactsh-token was redacted only by the accident of the pattern matching its
-token suffix, while nuclei's own short form -itoken wrote the secret straight
into scan_commands.
What this deliberately is not: reNgine owning an interactsh session of its own —
registering a correlation id, decrypting polled interactions and injecting its
own payloads on the probe path. That is a package the size of connectors/, and
the only way to hear a callback for a request nuclei did not send.
20 tests. Two mutations survived the first cut — an empty token row becoming
`-interactsh-token ""`, and the token being read for a run that will not use it —
because the tests built options directly instead of going through the scanner.
Both are covered and dead now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013dKUV96WkQQETZBMoAG98C
SQLModel emitted index=True beside primary_key=True on every id field, so 41
tables carried ix_<table>_id alongside <table>_pkey: the same single-column btree
twice. 12 MB of duplicate index, and every insert maintaining both — on the hot
path of a scan writing 345,152 endpoints.
The planner had been using them (72,160 scans across the set) simply because
they were there and equivalent; with them gone it uses the primary key, verified
on subdomains: Index Scan using subdomains_pkey.
The migration finds them rather than naming them, because which tables exist
depends on how far an install has migrated and a name already gone must not fail
an upgrade. It drops only a non-unique, single-column btree on id belonging to a
table that has a primary key — no other index can match that shape. There is no
downgrade: the primary key serves every lookup they served.
The 33 models are corrected too, so the next hand-written migration is not
comparing against a schema that would want them back.
Counted honestly: 41, not the 102 an earlier pass reported — that number included
the 61 primary keys themselves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013dKUV96WkQQETZBMoAG98C
Severity alone is close to useless for ordering work: roughly 60% of CVEs
score 7.0 or above. Until now EPSS and KEV came from nuclei's template
metadata, frozen at authoring time, so a finding could never learn that the
world had changed around it.
Two keyless feeds now land nightly and re-score every finding already stored:
EPSS (368k CVEs) and the CISA KEV catalog (1,695). A feed that fails to
download leaves its table untouched, so an install with no egress keeps
ranking. CISA is authoritative for is_kev on anything carrying a CVE.
exploitation.py judges each finding the way interest/ judges hosts, and the
signals that matter cross dimensions no other tool joins:
ransom_path a KEV ransomware CVE on a host whose ports also expose
a service ransomware crews reach for
fresh_exploit a public exploit published after the scan that found it
untestable no scanner template covers this CVE, so no scan can
clear it -- BlueKeep, EternalBlue and HTTP/2 Rapid Reset
all report false here
reachable answering directly, with no CDN or WAF in front
vulnx is an optional ceiling, never the floor: per-CVE exploits and their
links, template coverage, internet-wide population and bounty activity,
cached forever. Measured at 10 requests a minute keyless with no Retry-After,
so the client paces off the remaining header and can only ever be a
background cache-fill.
Alerting is delta-only, on the same rule as new findings: intel_signals is
upserted so created_at is when a finding first earned a signal, and repeated
refreshes alert nothing.
The nightly download is opt-out (instance_settings.threat_intel_auto_sync).
It gates the beat task and the worker warm-up only -- Refresh now always
works, so nobody is stuck with a scheduled outbound request they did not ask
for. Bounty activity renders only under CAP_HACKERONE; the gate is
presentational, so switching mode never loses data.
Every count is a promise: coverage, the query it compiles to, and the rows
its sheet opens were verified equal across all five signals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PwxTAkPFUXPHPvdYT8Rhtm
- Added `clean_name` function to `validation.py` for name validation with max length.
- Simplified docstrings in `dnsx` client, parser, and service files for clarity.
- Enhanced error handling in `ViewDNSService` to prevent disabling keys on rate limits.
- Improved WHOIS service to handle concurrent inserts gracefully with integrity checks.
- Updated `Settings` class in worker config to inherit from `BaseAppSettings`.
- Added new dependencies in `pyproject.toml` for `apprise` and `cryptography`.
