http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q3/346
For any given fingerprint from http-default-accounts-fingerprints
script http-default-accounts currently tests corresponding default
credentials if at least one of the probe URLs succeeded, namely
returned with status other than 404.
Some web servers, such as Linksys devices, respond with HTTP/401 even
for non-existent URLs. This causes the script to assume that these URLs
do exist and to test the credentials, while ideally they should be
tested only on those servers where they make sense.
The purpose of the attached patches is to reduce unnecessary credential
guessing by implementing a new optional fingerprint element, function
target_check(), which takes some already collected target information,
including a probe URL response, and returns true or false, indicating
whether the credential guessing should be attempted or not.
All of the current fingerprints have been retrofitted with simple
target validations as follows:
* If the fingerprint uses native HTTP authentication, validate that the
target's realm matches the server type.
* If the fingerprint uses form-based authentication, validate that the
probe URL returned with HTTP/200 (as opposed to perhaps HTTP/401).
When testing against the above-mentioned Linksys the difference was
notable: 14 login attempts before the patch versus 1 attempt after the
patch.
This functionality provides opportunity for further improvement by
being able to match page content to differentiate between real HTTP/200
and a custom error page. (As of now the script completely skips targets
that return HTTP/200 for non-existent pages.)
Was throwing an exception when parsing a packet with a source IP that
had a fourth octet greater than 127, since the %d format specifier used
in the dups check is for signed integers, and the IP is little-endian.
Switched to %u (unsigned int) and it works great.
Vlatko reported that this script was taking an inordinate amount of time
even in typical scans. This patch reduces the number of domains tried by
default. The new http-vhosts.filelist script argument allows
substituting the original list or another of your choosing.
Patch by Vlatko.
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/432
