Metasploit Framework The world’s most used penetration testing framework Knowledge is power, especially when it’s shared. A collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7, Metasploit helps security teams do more than just verify vulnerabilities, manage security assessments, and improve security awareness; it empowers and arms defenders to always stay one step (or two) ahead of the game. This is a repackage of the official nightly build of the debian package by Rapid7 Security note: the bundled payload and exploit binaries are shipped executable, as Metasploit requires. They are delivery artifacts used against remote targets, not programs meant to be run on the host.