Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE, PVE) Detection (HTTP)
🗓️ 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 SCHUTZWERK GmbHType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 SCHUTZWERK GmbH
# 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-or-later
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.111090");
script_version("2025-12-12T15:41:28+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-12-12 15:41:28 +0000 (Fri, 12 Dec 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-03-17 10:42:39 +0100 (Thu, 17 Mar 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N");
script_name("Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE, PVE) Detection (HTTP)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Product detection");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 SCHUTZWERK GmbH");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "httpver.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 8006);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"HTTP based detection of Proxmox Virtual Environment
(VE, PVE).");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
port = http_get_port( default:8006 );
banner = http_get_remote_headers( port:port );
res = http_get_cache( item:"/", port:port );
detection_patterns = make_list(
# Server: pve-api-daemon/3.0
"^Server\s*:\s*pve-api-daemon",
# <title>$hostname - Proxmox Virtual Environment</title>
"<title>[^>]*Proxmox Virtual Environment</title>",
'"/pve2/(css/ext([0-9])?-pve\\.css|js/pvemanagerlib\\.js)',
"PVE\.UserName",
"PVE\.CSRFPreventionToken",
# "boxheadline">Proxmox Virtual Environment 1.9</a>
'"boxheadline">Proxmox Virtual Environment ',
# Setup: { auth_cookie_name: 'PVEAuthCookie' },
"'PVEAuthCookie'" );
found = 0;
concluded = ""; # nb: To make openvas-nasl-lint happy...
foreach pattern( detection_patterns ) {
if( "pve-api-daemon" >< pattern )
concl = egrep( string:banner, pattern:pattern, icase:TRUE );
else
concl = egrep( string:res, pattern:pattern, icase:FALSE );
if( concl ) {
if( concluded )
concluded += '\n';
# nb: Minor formatting change for the reporting.
concl = chomp( concl );
concl = ereg_replace( string:concl, pattern:"^(\s+)", replace:"" );
concluded += " " + concl;
# Existence of the banner is always counting as a successful detection.
if( "pve-api-daemon" >< pattern )
found += 2;
else
found++;
}
}
if( found > 1 ) {
version = "unknown";
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/detected", value:TRUE );
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/http/detected", value:TRUE );
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/http/port", value:port );
# e.g. "boxheadline">Proxmox Virtual Environment 1.9</a>
# nb: only available in quite old versions of Proxmox VE
ver = eregmatch( pattern:'"boxheadline">Proxmox Virtual Environment ([0-9.]+)</a>', string:res );
if( ver[1] )
version = ver[1];
if( version == "unknown" ) {
# e.g.:
# <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pve2/css/ext6-pve.css?ver=5.1-42" />
# or:
# <script type="text/javascript" src="/pve2/js/pvemanagerlib.js?ver=5.1-42"></script>
ver = eregmatch( pattern:'"/pve2/(css/ext([0-9])?-pve\\.css|js/pvemanagerlib\\.js)\\?ver=([0-9.-]+)"', string:res );
if( ver[3] )
version = ver[3];
}
if( version == "unknown" ) {
# Only the major version but still better than nothing...
# At this point (if the css/js above failed) a full version is only available via an authenticated API and would return something like 5.0-34
url = "/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html";
req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:FALSE );
# e.g.:
# <span id="revnumber">version 5.0,</span>
# <span id="revnumber">version 6.3,</span>
ver = eregmatch( pattern:">version ([0-9.]+)", string:res );
if( ver[1] ) {
version = ver[1];
concl_url = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url, url_only:TRUE );
concluded += '\n ' + chomp( ver[0] );
}
}
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/http/" + port + "/version", value:version );
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/http/" + port + "/concluded", value:concluded );
if( concl_url )
set_kb_item( name:"proxmox/ve/http/" + port + "/concludedUrl", value:" " + concl_url );
}
exit( 0 );
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