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The rexec service is running

🗓️ 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType 
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The rexec service is running on the target hos

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100111");
  script_version("2023-09-12T05:05:19+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-09-12 05:05:19 +0000 (Tue, 12 Sep 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-09-29 10:10:42 +0000 (Tue, 29 Sep 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");

  script_cve_id("CVE-1999-0618");

  script_name("The rexec service is running");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Useless services");
  script_dependencies("rexecd.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("rexec/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"This remote host is running a rexec service.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks whether an rexec service is exposed on the target
  host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"rexec (remote execution client for an exec server) has the same
  kind of functionality that rsh has: you can execute shell commands on a remote computer.

  The main difference is that rexec authenticate by reading the username and password *unencrypted*
  from the socket.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Disable the rexec service and use alternatives like SSH
  instead.");

  exit(0);
}

include( "host_details.inc" );

if( ! port = get_kb_item( "rexec/port" ) ) exit( 0 );

report = "The rexec service was detected on the target system.";
security_message( data: report, port: port );

exit( 0 );

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12 Sep 2023 00:00Current
6.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.8
CVSS 210
EPSS0.01908
1326