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Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) Detection

🗓️ 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Detects if web server uses Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol, an obsolete encryption method.

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Code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if(description)
{
 script_id(11720);
 script_version ("1.20");
 
 script_name(english:"Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) Detection");
 script_summary(english:"Checks if the web server accepts the Secure method");
 
 script_set_attribute(
  attribute:"synopsis",
  value:"The remote web server encrypts traffic using an obsolete protocol."
 );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote web server accepts connections encrypted using Secure
HyperText Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP), a cryptographic layer that was
defined in 1999 by RFC 2660 and never widely implemented." );
 script_set_attribute(
  attribute:"see_also", 
  value:"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2660"
 );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Rare or obsolete code is often poorly tested. Thus, it would be
safer to disable support for S-HTTP and use HTTPS instead." );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2003/06/11");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/12");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"asset_inventory", value:"True");
 script_end_attributes();

 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2003-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
 script_family(english:"Service detection");
 script_dependencie("find_service1.nasl", "httpver.nasl", "broken_web_server.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 exit(0);
}

#

# Keep the old API. The new API does not support S-HTTP
include("http_func.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);

if (!get_port_state(port)) exit(0, "Port "+port+" is closed.");

soc = http_open_socket(port);
if (!soc) exit(1, "TCP connection failed to "+port+".");
req = string("Secure * Secure-HTTP/1.4\r\n",
		"Host: ", get_host_name(), ":", port, "\r\n",
		"Connection: close\r\n",
		"\r\n");
send(socket: soc, data: req);
r = recv_line(socket: soc, length: 256);
http_close_socket(soc);
if (ereg(pattern:"Secure-HTTP/[0-9]\.[0-9] 200 ", string:r)) security_warning(port);

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