Yersinia (computing)
# Yersinia (computing)

Yersinia is a network security/hacking tool for Unix-like operating systems, designed to take advantage of some weakness in different network protocols. Yersinia is considered a valuable and widely used security tool. As of 2017 Yersinia is still under development with a latest stable version number 0.8.2 available only at GitHub source code repository.

Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented:

* Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
* Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
* Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
* Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
* Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
* IEEE 802.1Q
* IEEE 802.1X
* Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
* VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

Yersinia was rated #59 at SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools

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