aflnet/aflnet
AFLNet: A Greybox Fuzzer for Network Protocols (https://thuanpv.github.io/publications/AFLNet_ICST20.pdf) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
43/100
- Activity 23
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2410
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 464
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1011 stars · 226 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
AFLNet is a greybox fuzzer for network protocol server implementations, extending American Fuzzy Lop with state-feedback derived from server response codes. It requires no protocol specification or message grammar, instead mutating recorded client-server message exchanges to increase code and state coverage.
Use cases
- fuzz a network protocol server implementation
- find crashes and vulnerabilities in protocol implementations without a spec
- mutate recorded message sequences to explore server state space
- greybox fuzzing of servers like FTP, SMTP, DNS
- security testing of network daemons
When to choose
- you have a server binary and recorded message exchanges but no protocol grammar
- you want coverage- and state-guided protocol fuzzing based on AFL
- you need to discover deep server states via response-code feedback
When to avoid
- you need to fuzz client-side or non-network software (use vanilla AFL instead)
- you require a Windows or macOS fuzzing environment
- you need structured grammar-based generation rather than mutation of recorded traffic
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
fuzzing testing security security testing networking developer-tools cli greybox-fuzzing protocol-fuzzing afl state-feedback network-protocols linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/aflnet/aflnet · fetched 2026-08-28 · 46938eec79ee
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| aflnet/aflnet | main | 43 |
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