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Linux Gather Container Detection

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module attempts to determine whether the system is running inside of a container and if so, which one. This module supports detection of Docker, WSL, LXC, Podman and systemd nspawn.

Author(s)

  • James Otten <jamesotten1@gmail.com>

Platform

Linux,Unix

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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