My AI Agent Exploited a CVE That Metasploit Couldn't — RedAmon Full Demo

I wanted to stress-test RedAmon — our autonomous security assessment agent — under the worst possible conditions. So I set up a deliberately vulnerable Node.js server running node-serialize 0.0.4 (CVE-2017-5941, CVSS 9.8) and gave the agent a single instruction: "Find a CVE and exploit it." Here's what made this brutally hard: 👇 ❌ The recon database had zero CVEs — no vulnerability data at all ❌ Metasploit had no module for this CVE — search CVE-2017-5941 returned nothing ❌ The agent had to go from zero knowledge to full RCE completely on its own 🤖 Powered by Claude Opus 4.6, here's the …