Kali, having also been developed by Offensive Security, has built into it a local database of exploits based on the same Exploit Database.
We can access it by going to Applications > Exploitation Tools > Searchsploit.
As you see the help screen appears to look like this:
> Executing “searchsploit”
Usage: searchsploit [options] term1 [term2] ... [termN]
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Examples
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searchsploit afd windows local
searchsploit -t oracle windows
searchsploit -p 39446
searchsploit linux kernel 3.2 --exclude="(PoC)|/dos/"
searchsploit -s Apache Struts 2.0.0
searchsploit linux reverse password
searchsploit -j 55555 | json_pp
For more examples, see the manual: https://www.exploit-db.com/searchsploit
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Options
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## Search Terms
-c, --case [Term] Perform a case-sensitive search (Default is inSEnsITiVe)
-e, --exact [Term] Perform an EXACT & order match on exploit title (Default is an AND match on each term) [Implies "-t"]
e.g. "WordPress 4.1" would not be detect "WordPress Core 4.1")
-s, --strict Perform a strict search, so input values must exist, disabling fuzzy search for version range
e.g. "1.1" would not be detected in "1.0 < 1.3")
-t, --title [Term] Search JUST the exploit title (Default is title AND the file's path)
--exclude="term" Remove values from results. By using "|" to separate, you can chain multiple values
e.g. --exclude="term1|term2|term3"
## Output
-j, --json [Term] Show result in JSON format
-o, --overflow [Term] Exploit titles are allowed to overflow their columns
-p, --path [EDB-ID] Show the full path to an exploit (and also copies the path to the clipboard if possible)
-v, --verbose Display more information in output
-w, --www [Term] Show URLs to Exploit-DB.com rather than the local path
--id Display the EDB-ID value rather than local path
--colour Disable colour highlighting in search results
## Non-Searching
-m, --mirror [EDB-ID] Mirror (aka copies) an exploit to the current working directory
-x, --examine [EDB-ID] Examine (aka opens) the exploit using $PAGER
## Non-Searching
-h, --help Show this help screen
-u, --update Check for and install any exploitdb package updates (brew, deb & git)
## Automation
--nmap [file.xml] Checks all results in Nmap's XML output with service version
e.g.: nmap [host] -sV -oX file.xml
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Notes
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* You can use any number of search terms
* By default, search terms are not case-sensitive, ordering is irrelevant, and will search between version ranges
* Use '-c' if you wish to reduce results by case-sensitive searching
* And/Or '-e' if you wish to filter results by using an exact match
* And/Or '-s' if you wish to look for an exact version match
* Use '-t' to exclude the file's path to filter the search results
* Remove false positives (especially when searching using numbers - i.e. versions)
* When using '--nmap', adding '-v' (verbose), it will search for even more combinations
* When updating or displaying help, search terms will be ignored
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This is an example that can help you, with how I search for an exploit:
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└─$ searchsploit afd windows local
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Exploit Title | Path
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Microsoft Windows (x86) - 'afd.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (MS11-046) | windows_x86/local/40564.c
Microsoft Windows - 'afd.sys' Local Kernel (PoC) (MS11-046) | windows/dos/18755.c
Microsoft Windows - 'AfdJoinLeaf' Local Privilege Escalation (MS11-080) (Metasploit) | windows/local/21844.rb
Microsoft Windows 7 (x64) - 'afd.sys' Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040) | windows_x86-64/local/39525.py
Microsoft Windows 7 (x86) - 'afd.sys' Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040) | windows_x86/local/39446.py
Microsoft Windows XP - 'afd.sys' Local Kernel Denial of Service | windows/dos/17133.c
Microsoft Windows XP/2003 - 'afd.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (K-plugin) (MS08-066) | windows/local/6757.txt
Microsoft Windows XP/2003 - 'afd.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (MS11-080) | windows/local/18176.py
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Shellcodes: No Results
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