Why would nuclei send requests when there's no target provided?

[CaledoniaProject]

I started nuclei with no arguments, and it hangs.

So I started it again with -debug, and it is sending a lot of requests:

# nuclei -debug

...
[DBG] [api-github] Dumped HTTP response https://api.github.com/user

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Connection: close
Content-Length: 141
...

What is nuclei doing?

[ehsandeep]

@CaledoniaProject nuclei as default load all the templates to run including self-contained token-spray templates which doesn't requires target input as it's already included in the template.

[CaledoniaProject]

This is weird, I think nuclei should change the default behavior. The reason is quite simple: I didn't provide any arguments to token-spray templates, it is useless to run them.

[ehsandeep]

@CaledoniaProject it was due to bug that let some template to run and now being tracked here - #2412, thanks for flagging this.

[CaledoniaProject]

Can you also take a look at this bug? #2400

[ehsandeep]

@CaledoniaProject this issue should be fixed with the latest release.