http-dombased-xss NSE Script

It looks for places where attacker-controlled information in the DOM may be used to affect JavaScript execution in certain ways. The attack is explained here: See also: http-stored-xss.nse http-phpself-xss.nse http-xssed.nse http-unsafe-output-escaping.nse Script Arguments...

Alliance Issues Guidance for Cloud-Based SIEM Services

The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance today released guidelines for the nascent Security as a Service SecaaS specialization within the broader realm of cloud computing. The goal, the group says, is to help companies and consumers gain a better handle on how best to evaluate, build and deploy...

PCI DSS Compliance : Handling False Positives

Note that per PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC standards, if the version of the remote software is known to contain flaws, a vulnerability scanner must report it as vulnerable. The scanner must still flag it as vulnerable, even in cases where a workaround or mitigating configuration option ...

It's The Stupidity, Stupid: How Absurd Pitches Help Online Scammers Find Their Marks

Do you find e-mail pleas for help from the widow of Democratic Republic of the Congo strongman Mobutu Sese Seko unconvincing or downright silly? That may be the point, according to Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley. The outlandish claims of Nigerian Letter – or “419” – scams serve a critical...

Advantech / BroadWin WebAccess webvrpcs.exe Service Remote Code Execution (uncredentialed check) (deprecated)

The Advantech / BroadWin WebAccess software installed on the remote Windows host includes an RPC service webvrpcs.exe that listens remotely on TCP port 4592. It is affected by two vulnerabilities : - An overflow condition exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An unauthenticate...

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux Australian researcher Silvio Cesare, PhD student at Deakin University has released a tool capable of automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in embedded Linux libraries. Developers may "embed" or "clone" code from...

Lilith: Perl script to audit web applications

Lilith: Perl script to audit web applications Lilith tool analyses webpages and looks for htmltags , which often refer to dynamic pages that might be subject to SQL injection or other flaws.Lilith basic function is to spider and analyses pages, following hyperlinks, injecting special characters...

WAVSEP 1.0.3 – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project

WAVSEP 1.0.3 – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project A vulnerable web application designed to help assessing the features, quality and accuracy of web application vulnerability scanners. This evaluation platform contains a collection of unique vulnerable web pages that can be...

WAVSEP 1.0.3 – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project

WAVSEP 1.0.3 – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project A vulnerable web application designed to help assessing the features, quality and accuracy of web application vulnerability scanners. This evaluation platform contains a collection of unique vulnerable web pages that can be...

Remote Authentication Message Check

In order to avoid false positives, this plugin determines if the remote system accepts any kind of login. Some SSH implementations claim that a login has been accepted when it has not. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid55900; scriptversion"1.11";...

http-cakephp-version NSE Script

Obtains the CakePHP version of a web application built with the CakePHP framework by fingerprinting default files shipped with the CakePHP framework. This script queries the files 'vendors.php', 'cake.generic.css', 'cake.icon.png' and 'cake.icon.gif' to try to obtain the version of the CakePHP...

Host-Extract - Host/IP Pattern Extractor Tool !

Host-Extract - Host/IP Pattern Extractor Tool ! This little ruby script tries to extract all IP/Host patterns in page response of a given URL and JavaScript/CSS files of that URL. With it, you can quickly identify internal IPs/Hostnames, development IPs/ports, cdn, load balancers, additional...

Mandriva Update for snort MDVA-2010:224 (snort)

Check for the Version of snort OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for snort MDVA-2010:224 snort Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Mandriva Update for snort MDVA-2010:224 (snort)

Check for the Version of snort OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for snort MDVA-2010:224 snort Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CGI Generic Path Traversal (write test)

The remote web server hosts CGI scripts that fail to adequately sanitize request strings and are affected by directory traversal or local file inclusion vulnerabilities. By leveraging this issue, an attacker may be able to modify arbitrary files on the web server or execute commands. Due to the w...

Google Releases Skipfish Application Security Scanner

Google has released its own Web application security scanner, called Skipfish. The free scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing Web application frameworks and is built with an emphasis on speed and low false-positives, the company said. Skipfish enters a crowded field of Web...

Zeus/Zbot Banking Trojan/Data Theft (credentialed check)

The remote Windows host has files that indicate that the Zeus also known as Zbot banking trojan has been installed, or that stolen data collected by this trojan remains on the system. The Zeus trojan will intercept and log activity related to online banking, as well as other logins, such as web,...

On The Way to Better Malware Testing

Have you ever found a false positive when uploading a file to a website like VirusTotal? Sometimes it happens that not just one scanner detects the file, but several. This leads to an absurd situation where every product which doesn’t detect this file automatically looks bad to users who don’t...

Backported Security Patch Detection (FTP)

Security patches may have been 'backported' to the remote FTP server without changing its version number. Banner-based checks have been disabled to avoid false positives. Note that this test is informational only and does not denote any security problem. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Backported Security Patch Detection (WWW)

Security patches may have been 'backported' to the remote HTTP server without changing its version number. Banner-based checks have been disabled to avoid false positives. Note that this test is informational only and does not denote any security problem. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...