framework: The Metasploit Framework (http://www.metasploit/framework/) framework: framework: The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating framework: security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network framework: security professionals to perform penetration tests, system framework: administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to framework: perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. framework: The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and framework: includes components written in C and assembler. framework: framework: