rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2024 – Mar 2026
15 Months active
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Ruby programmingexploit developmentsecurity testingDocumentationExploit DevelopmentMetasploit Framework
h00die
PROFILE
H00die
Michael Cyr engineered a broad suite of persistence, privilege escalation, and security testing modules for the rapid7/metasploit-framework repository, focusing on cross-platform reliability and maintainability. He developed and refactored modules for Linux, Windows, and WSL, integrating MITRE ATT&CK mappings and automating hash cracking validation. Using Ruby and Bash, Michael modernized persistence workflows with mixins, improved error handling, and expanded documentation for onboarding and operational clarity. His work included enhancing session compatibility, implementing robust directory handling, and aligning modules with evolving security standards. The depth of his contributions advanced both the technical quality and usability of Metasploit’s post-exploitation tooling.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
72%Features
Repository Contributions
195Total
Bugs
24
Commits
195
Features
61
Lines of code
2,839,440
Activity Months15
Your Network
125 peopleShared Repositories
125
Work History
March 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 monthly summary focused on delivering a targeted Windows persistence improvement in the Metasploit Framework. Key feature delivered: Windows Persistence Directory Structure Enhancement in metasploit-framework, introducing a more effective writable directory structure for Windows persistence and enhancing reliability and user experience for Windows-based workflows. The change is captured in commit 7631b54c0fe175b46355a802ae120c41214933b9 with the message 'better wriable_dir for windows persistence'.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 monthly summary focused on delivering a targeted Windows persistence improvement in the Metasploit Framework. Key feature delivered: Windows Persistence Directory Structure Enhancement in metasploit-framework, introducing a more effective writable directory structure for Windows persistence and enhancing reliability and user experience for Windows-based workflows. The change is captured in commit 7631b54c0fe175b46355a802ae120c41214933b9 with the message 'better wriable_dir for windows persistence'.
March 2026
February 2026
6 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework. This period delivered several security-testing oriented improvements across the Metasploit Framework, with a focus on expanding coverage for startup persistence scenarios, enhancing cross-platform session handling, and improving documentation.
February 2026
6 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework. This period delivered several security-testing oriented improvements across the Metasploit Framework, with a focus on expanding coverage for startup persistence scenarios, enhancing cross-platform session handling, and improving documentation.
January 2026
24 Commits • 8 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework: Delivered foundational and cross‑platform persistence enhancements, enhanced testing/integration hooks, and strengthened security testing capabilities. Focused on business value through reliable persistence across Linux/WSL, Windows, and WMI modules, improved traceability with ATT&CK mappings, and stabilized release pipelines to accelerate delivery.
24 Commits • 8 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework: Delivered foundational and cross‑platform persistence enhancements, enhanced testing/integration hooks, and strengthened security testing capabilities. Focused on business value through reliable persistence across Linux/WSL, Windows, and WMI modules, improved traceability with ATT&CK mappings, and stabilized release pipelines to accelerate delivery.
January 2026
December 2025
19 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month: 2025-12 — Cross-platform persistence module expansion for metasploit-framework, delivering Windows accessibility-based persistence improvements, SSH key persistence across Windows and Linux, WSL startup-folder persistence, and Linux udev-based persistence. These features broaden post-exploitation coverage across major OSes and improve realism of red-team tooling. Included extensive documentation updates and module cleanup to improve maintainability and onboarding.
December 2025
19 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month: 2025-12 — Cross-platform persistence module expansion for metasploit-framework, delivering Windows accessibility-based persistence improvements, SSH key persistence across Windows and Linux, WSL startup-folder persistence, and Linux udev-based persistence. These features broaden post-exploitation coverage across major OSes and improve realism of red-team tooling. Included extensive documentation updates and module cleanup to improve maintainability and onboarding.
November 2025
14 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Delivered a focused set of Windows persistence enhancements and a new WSL-based persistence module in rapid7/metasploit-framework. Implemented a flexible Windows service installation/persistence framework with multi-method support, improved logging, and removal of legacy persistence code. Added WSL-based persistence via registry keys with enhanced WSL integration and startup/logon triggers. Introduced WMI-based, event-driven, file-less persistence modules, expanding coverage to system events, logins, and process starts, with corresponding documentation updates. These changes improve operator reliability, broaden platform coverage, and reduce maintenance overhead through clearer modularization and better logging.
14 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Delivered a focused set of Windows persistence enhancements and a new WSL-based persistence module in rapid7/metasploit-framework. Implemented a flexible Windows service installation/persistence framework with multi-method support, improved logging, and removal of legacy persistence code. Added WSL-based persistence via registry keys with enhanced WSL integration and startup/logon triggers. Introduced WMI-based, event-driven, file-less persistence modules, expanding coverage to system events, logins, and process starts, with corresponding documentation updates. These changes improve operator reliability, broaden platform coverage, and reduce maintenance overhead through clearer modularization and better logging.
November 2025
October 2025
14 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025In Oct 2025, delivered cross-platform persistence reliability improvements for the Metasploit Framework, implementing write-permission checks for /etc/init.d and aligning the persistence module across macOS, BSD, and Arch Linux with refactors and cleanup. Also completed targeted bug fixes and documentation standardization to boost maintainability and usability. The changes reduce permission-related cleanup issues, improve platform parity, and enhance the accuracy and usefulness of security testing tooling.
October 2025
14 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025In Oct 2025, delivered cross-platform persistence reliability improvements for the Metasploit Framework, implementing write-permission checks for /etc/init.d and aligning the persistence module across macOS, BSD, and Arch Linux with refactors and cleanup. Also completed targeted bug fixes and documentation standardization to boost maintainability and usability. The changes reduce permission-related cleanup issues, improve platform parity, and enhance the accuracy and usefulness of security testing tooling.
September 2025
41 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments delivering standardized persistence capabilities across the Metasploit Framework, with cross-module mixin integration, ATT&CK reference alignment, and expanded delivery surfaces. The effort stabilized persistence workflows, improved visibility and mapping to adversary techniques, and accelerated maintenance via unified modules, peer reviews, and docker/windows enhancements.
41 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments delivering standardized persistence capabilities across the Metasploit Framework, with cross-module mixin integration, ATT&CK reference alignment, and expanded delivery surfaces. The effort stabilized persistence workflows, improved visibility and mapping to adversary techniques, and accelerated maintenance via unified modules, peer reviews, and docker/windows enhancements.
September 2025
August 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Month: 2025-08 — Delivered Linux persistence capabilities with a new demonstration module, fixed a compatibility bug, and generalized persistence across modules via a mixin-based refactor. This work enhances Metasploit's persistence tooling, improves maintainability, and broadens targeting and cleanup capabilities for payloads.
August 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Month: 2025-08 — Delivered Linux persistence capabilities with a new demonstration module, fixed a compatibility bug, and generalized persistence across modules via a mixin-based refactor. This work enhances Metasploit's persistence tooling, improves maintainability, and broadens targeting and cleanup capabilities for payloads.
July 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly performance summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework. Delivered significant enhancements to the Persistence Library, including a new persistence module that supports writable directories and cleanup, a timespec validation module for robust time handling, and a Linux home-directory utility. The library interface was refactored for readability, WritableDir default adjusted, and cleanup-related state initialized to improve initialization and flexible file writing. Linux-specific tests were stabilized by ensuring the correct subject is used for command execution mocking and adding necessary module inclusion to guarantee the user module functions reliably on Linux. These efforts jointly improve cross-platform persistence capabilities, reduce flaky tests, and strengthen maintainability and onboarding for new contributors. Technologies demonstrated include Ruby, Metasploit framework module design, test doubles/mocking, Linux user handling, and timespec parsing.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly performance summary for rapid7/metasploit-framework. Delivered significant enhancements to the Persistence Library, including a new persistence module that supports writable directories and cleanup, a timespec validation module for robust time handling, and a Linux home-directory utility. The library interface was refactored for readability, WritableDir default adjusted, and cleanup-related state initialized to improve initialization and flexible file writing. Linux-specific tests were stabilized by ensuring the correct subject is used for command execution mocking and adding necessary module inclusion to guarantee the user module functions reliably on Linux. These efforts jointly improve cross-platform persistence capabilities, reduce flaky tests, and strengthen maintainability and onboarding for new contributors. Technologies demonstrated include Ruby, Metasploit framework module design, test doubles/mocking, Linux user handling, and timespec parsing.
July 2025
February 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 performance highlights for rapid7/metasploit-framework focused on strengthening Linux tooling reliability, cross-distribution compatibility, and automated validation of hash cracking capabilities. Delivered three key features, addressed stability-related bugs in Linux specs and build/test flows, and introduced automated validation to reduce regression risk. Impact includes more reliable Linux-target workflows, broader distro coverage, and faster validation cycles with improved code quality.
February 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 performance highlights for rapid7/metasploit-framework focused on strengthening Linux tooling reliability, cross-distribution compatibility, and automated validation of hash cracking capabilities. Delivered three key features, addressed stability-related bugs in Linux specs and build/test flows, and introduced automated validation to reduce regression risk. Impact includes more reliable Linux-target workflows, broader distro coverage, and faster validation cycles with improved code quality.
January 2025
12 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering core features, improving reliability, and strengthening safety and metadata across metasploit-framework. The work emphasizes enabling business value through safer references, robust exploit workflows, and maintainable tooling.
12 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering core features, improving reliability, and strengthening safety and metadata across metasploit-framework. The work emphasizes enabling business value through safer references, robust exploit workflows, and maintainable tooling.
January 2025
December 2024
19 Commits • 11 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 focused on delivering core integration features, strengthening code quality processes, and advancing observability and stability for metasploit-framework. Delivered Obsidian plugin module with accompanying review enhancements, and expanded WordPress updater integration with a weekly updater action. Consolidated code review activity to improve throughput and maintainability. Advanced Linux/post libraries specifications and lib spec progress, and added Prometheus pprof endpoint checks to improve observability. Implemented stability improvements (ignore sleeps) and tackled Arch Linux compatibility for runc privilege escalation, along with Rubocop spec improvements and alphabetized sorting to enhance code quality. Oracle install instructions were updated to reflect current deployment steps.
December 2024
19 Commits • 11 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 focused on delivering core integration features, strengthening code quality processes, and advancing observability and stability for metasploit-framework. Delivered Obsidian plugin module with accompanying review enhancements, and expanded WordPress updater integration with a weekly updater action. Consolidated code review activity to improve throughput and maintainability. Advanced Linux/post libraries specifications and lib spec progress, and added Prometheus pprof endpoint checks to improve observability. Implemented stability improvements (ignore sleeps) and tackled Arch Linux compatibility for runc privilege escalation, along with Rubocop spec improvements and alphabetized sorting to enhance code quality. Oracle install instructions were updated to reflect current deployment steps.
November 2024
27 Commits • 9 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered enterprise-ready platform enhancements, security-focused bug work, and maintainability improvements for rapid7/metasploit-framework. Key outcomes include expanding VCenter SSH platform support with a new sudo module; implementing Strapi password reset with thorough review; offloading large files to data storage to optimize I/O; progressing Local Privilege Escalation for BCenter; and hardening Ubuntu LPE via needrestart fixes and broader improvements. Security investigations and peer reviews continued to strengthen code quality and resilience.
27 Commits • 9 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered enterprise-ready platform enhancements, security-focused bug work, and maintainability improvements for rapid7/metasploit-framework. Key outcomes include expanding VCenter SSH platform support with a new sudo module; implementing Strapi password reset with thorough review; offloading large files to data storage to optimize I/O; progressing Local Privilege Escalation for BCenter; and hardening Ubuntu LPE via needrestart fixes and broader improvements. Security investigations and peer reviews continued to strengthen code quality and resilience.
November 2024
October 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Monthly summary for 2024-10: Focused on delivering high-impact features for the Metasploit Framework while retiring legacy components to reduce risk and maintenance overhead. Key contributions include delivering a POST SMTP WordPress module exploit (privilege escalation via intercepting password reset emails) with thorough installation/verification/configuration docs, and deprecating the outdated POST SMTP module (CVE-2023-6875). These efforts advance security testing capabilities and clean up the codebase for future work.
October 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Monthly summary for 2024-10: Focused on delivering high-impact features for the Metasploit Framework while retiring legacy components to reduce risk and maintenance overhead. Key contributions include delivering a POST SMTP WordPress module exploit (privilege escalation via intercepting password reset emails) with thorough installation/verification/configuration docs, and deprecating the outdated POST SMTP module (CVE-2023-6875). These efforts advance security testing capabilities and clean up the codebase for future work.
January 2024
1 Commits
Jan 1, 2024January 2024: Security risk assessment and governance focus for rapid7/metasploit-framework. No feature deliveries this month. Identified and documented a security vulnerability in the WordPress POST SMTP integration that could enable unauthenticated password resets, enabling account takeovers. Produced remediation guidance and prepared a plan for safe testing and patching. Highlighted untested code in commit 4feb12ab4ab15e5a7bd343af3c25a35a0c3b7a6e to prompt validation. Coordinated with maintainers on remediation timelines.
1 Commits
Jan 1, 2024January 2024: Security risk assessment and governance focus for rapid7/metasploit-framework. No feature deliveries this month. Identified and documented a security vulnerability in the WordPress POST SMTP integration that could enable unauthenticated password resets, enabling account takeovers. Produced remediation guidance and prepared a plan for safe testing and patching. Highlighted untested code in commit 4feb12ab4ab15e5a7bd343af3c25a35a0c3b7a6e to prompt validation. Coordinated with maintainers on remediation timelines.
January 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness88.4%
Maintainability86.8%
Architecture83.8%
Performance82.2%
AI Usage20.8%
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