Post #4229840

2026-07-23 00:00 UTC

Curious to know how self hosters can use local ai to find and repair/mitigate vulnerabilities on their personal networks. Anyone working in this space?

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@irmadlad@lemmy.world 2026-07-23 00:20

Wow! That is a very intriguing question, and one that I have never considered before. Just spitballing here but you could possibly use trad apps like Lynis, Greenbone, Nikto, etc. These apps often produce rather verbose and sometimes cryptic output, i know Lynis sure does. So, you could use a prompt like: ‘You are a security analyst. Review the following Nmap scan results. Identify services running outdated or potentially vulnerable versions, suggest likely CVEs, and prioritize findings by risk.’ Then use something like llama3.1:70b, mistral-nemo or deepseek-coder-v2, and pipe your security scans into your local AI. You could feed it your NGINX, docker configs, pFsense firewall rules in and ask the model to audit them. IDK, that’s a very good question I think. It’ll be interesting to see what others have to comment.

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