-etags issue!

[0xhunster]

Command: nuclei -target "https://hackerone.com" -stats -duc -etags "ssl,fuzzing" -t ~/nuclei-templates/http/ -silent
Nuclei version: v3.1.10
Installation method: go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/cmd/nuclei@latest
Golang version: go1.22.0
Platform: linux/amd64

when I used the normal command without -etags, I saw templates loaded Templates: 7060.
But when I used the command -etags "ssl,fuzzing", I saw the same templates loaded Templates: 7060. These templates would be excluded.

[olearycrew]

@0xhunster this would be expected because of your use of -t ~/nuclei-templates/http/

• All of the ssl tagged templates are in the ssl folder
• Fuzzing templates are excluded by default unless you include them (see this docs page for the default exclusion details).

Thus, you are already filtered down to the templates in the http folder, and the etags doesn't filter anymore out. I confirmed this with these commands:

nuclei -u https://boleary.dev -stats -duc -t http/ -silent
nuclei -u https://boleary.dev -stats -duc -t http/ -silent -etags ssl,fuzzing

vs

nuclei -u https://boleary.dev -stats -duc -silent
nuclei -u https://boleary.dev -stats -duc -silent -etags ssl,fuzzing