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Treat 5xx errors as success (guessed password) in http-brute.

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This was suggested by Toni Ruottu in
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q1/940.
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david
2011-04-28 04:14:54 +00:00
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@@ -68,12 +68,10 @@ Driver = {
-- incorrectly tells us that the authentication was successfull
local response = http.generic_request( self.host, self.port, self.method, self.path, { auth = { username = username, password = password }, no_cache = true })
-- We should probably do more tests here, 500 error and redirects
-- should be possible candidates. checking for ~= 401 *should* work to
-- Checking for ~= 401 *should* work to
-- but gave me a number of false positives last time I tried.
-- After Davids initial review we decided to change it to not 4xx and
-- not 5xx. That would roughly equal the following:
if ( response.status < 400 or response.status > 599 ) then
-- We decided to change it to ~= 4xx.
if ( response.status < 400 or response.status > 499 ) then
if ( not( nmap.registry['credentials'] ) ) then
nmap.registry['credentials'] = {}
end