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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Disclaimer
Preface
Index

Validating vulnerabilities with HTTP interaction


As a penetration tester, the best outcome of any given exploit is to achieve remote code execution. However, there are cases in which we might just want to determine if a remote code execution vulnerability is exploitable but don't want to actually follow through the entire exploitation and post-exploitation process. One way to do this is to create a web server that will log interaction and use a given exploit to execute code that would cause the remote host to interact with the web server. This recipe will demonstrate how to write a custom script for validating remote code execution vulnerabilities with HTTP traffic.

Getting ready

To validate vulnerabilities using HTTP interaction, you will need to have a system that is running software with a remote code execution vulnerability. Additionally, this section will require a script to be written to the filesystem by using a text editor such as VIM or Nano. For more information on writing scripts...