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Windows Gather Applied Patches

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module enumerates patches applied to a Windows system using the WMI query: SELECT HotFixID, InstalledOn FROM Win32_QuickFixEngineering.

Author(s)

  • zeroSteiner <zeroSteiner@gmail.com>
  • mubix <mubix@hak5.org>

Platform

Windows

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

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