id = "HTTP allowed methods" description = [[ Connects to an HTTP server and sends an OPTIONS request to see which HTTP methods are allowed on this server. Optionally tests each method individually to see if they are subject to e.g. IP address restrictions. ]] --- -- @args http-methods.url-path The path to request. Defaults to -- /. -- @args http-methods.retest If defined, do a request using each method -- individually and show the response code. Use of this argument can -- make this script unsafe; for example DELETE / is -- possible. -- -- @output -- 80/tcp open http syn-ack -- | http-methods: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE -- | GET / -> HTTP/1.1 200 OK -- | HEAD / -> HTTP/1.1 200 OK -- | POST / -> HTTP/1.1 200 OK -- | OPTIONS / -> HTTP/1.1 200 OK -- |_TRACE / -> HTTP/1.1 200 OK -- -- @usage -- nmap --script=http-methods.nse --script-args http-methods.retest=1 -- nmap --script=http-methods.nse --script-args http-methods.url-path=/website author = "Bernd Stroessenreuther " license = "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html" categories = {"safe"} require("http") require("stdnse") portrule = function(host, port) if not (port.service == 'http' or port.service == 'https') then return(false) end -- Don't bother running on SSL ports if we don't have SSL. if ((port.service == 'https' or port.version.service_tunnel == 'ssl') and not nmap.have_ssl()) then return(false) end return(true) end action = function(host, port) local url_path, retest_http_methods local response, methods, options_status_line, output -- default vaules for script-args url_path = nmap.registry.args["http-methods.url-path"] or "/" retest_http_methods = nmap.registry.args["http-methods.retest"] ~= nil response = http.generic_request(host, port, "OPTIONS", url_path) if not response.status then stdnse.print_debug("http-methods: OPTIONS %s failed.", url_path) return end -- Cache in case retest is requested. options_status_line = response["status-line"] stdnse.print_debug("http-methods.nse: HTTP Status for OPTIONS is " .. response.status) if not response.header["allow"] then return string.format("No Allow header in OPTIONS response (status code %d)", response.status) end output = { response.header["allow"] } -- retest http methods if requested if retest_http_methods then local methods = stdnse.strsplit(",%s*", response.header["allow"]) local _ for _, method in ipairs(methods) do local str if method == "OPTIONS" then -- Use the saved value. str = options_status_line else response = http.generic_request(host, port, method, url_path) if not response.status then str = "Error getting response" else str = response["status-line"] end end output[#output + 1] = string.format("%s %s -> %s", method, url_path, str) end end return stdnse.strjoin("\n", output) end