From d4f4124c91c99debe92a0437786f4b58262b8ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nnposter Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:13:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the expected format of the Nikto database --- nselib/data/http-fingerprints.lua | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/nselib/data/http-fingerprints.lua b/nselib/data/http-fingerprints.lua index 7cf158033..4d7201a37 100644 --- a/nselib/data/http-fingerprints.lua +++ b/nselib/data/http-fingerprints.lua @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ local table = require "table" -- https://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html -- -- @args http-fingerprints.nikto-db-path Looks at the given path for nikto database. +-- The database is expected to be a CSV file structured as nikto "db_tests". -- It then converts the records in nikto's database into our Lua table format -- and adds them to our current fingerprints if they don't exist already. -- Unfortunately, our current implementation has some limitations: