[BUG] Almost all templates being skipped when run with -dut (-disable-unsigned-templates)

[FiveOFive]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

Current Behavior

Recently nuclei scans launched with the -dut (-disable-unsigned-templates) flag started seeing only 5 signed templates. Previously the same scan showed [INF] Executing 7219 signed templates from projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

This reproduces for me with a clean nuclei installation using go and with the docker container as well.

Has anything changed with how the templates are signed? Or what next steps can be taken to verify the template signatures are working correctly in my installation?

Expected Behavior

To see more signed templates from projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

Steps To Reproduce

Here's the command I used to test with docker

docker run --rm projectdiscovery/nuclei -dut -u google.com                                 

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  / __ \/ / / / ___/ / _ \/ /
 / / / / /_/ / /__/ /  __/ /
/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/   v3.4.10

		projectdiscovery.io

[INF] nuclei-templates are not installed, installing...
[INF] Successfully installed nuclei-templates at /root/nuclei-templates
[WRN] Found 1 templates with syntax error (use -validate flag for further examination)
[WRN] Found 11 templates with runtime error (use -validate flag for further examination)
[WRN] Skipping 9685 unsigned template[s]
[INF] Current nuclei version: v3.4.10 (latest)
[INF] Current nuclei-templates version: v10.3.1 (latest)
[INF] New templates added in latest release: 119
[INF] Templates loaded for current scan: 5
[INF] Executing 5 signed templates from projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
[INF] Targets loaded for current scan: 1
[INF] Running httpx on input host
[INF] Found 1 URL from httpx
[INF] Scan completed in 10.081467171s. No results found.

Without -dut the logs show:

...
[INF] Executing 5 signed templates from projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
...
[WRN] Loading 8696 unsigned templates for scan. Use with caution.
...

Relevant log output

Environment

- OS: Mac
- Nuclei: v3.4.10
- Go: go version go1.25.1 darwin/arm64

I've also tested with the latest Docker image using `docker pull projectdiscovery/nuclei:latest`

Anything else?

No response

[dogancanbakir]

Could you please try again using the dev branch? It should be functioning correctly there.

[FiveOFive]

Could you please try again using the dev branch? It should be functioning correctly there.

Thanks for the quick reply. The dev branch is showing a few more signed templates [76], but still almost all unsigned [9695].

I followed the github install instructions here - https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/opensource/nuclei/install#github

% nuclei -u google.com -dut

                     __     _
   ____  __  _______/ /__  (_)
  / __ \/ / / / ___/ / _ \/ /
 / / / / /_/ / /__/ /  __/ /
/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/   v3.4.10

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Found 1 templates with syntax error (use -validate flag for further examination)
[WRN] Found 1 templates with runtime error (use -validate flag for further examination)
[WRN] Skipping 9695 unsigned template[s]
[INF] Current nuclei version: v3.4.10 (latest)
[INF] Current nuclei-templates version: v10.3.1 (latest)
[INF] New templates added in latest release: 119
[INF] Templates loaded for current scan: 76
[INF] Executing 76 signed templates from projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
[INF] Targets loaded for current scan: 1
[INF] Running httpx on input host
[INF] Found 1 URL from httpx
[INF] Templates clustered: 2 (Reduced 1 Requests)
[INF] Using Interactsh Server: oast.live
[INF] Scan completed in 15.953370875s. No results found.

% git status
On branch dev
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/dev'.