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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Overview of this book

Nmap is a well known security tool used by penetration testers and system administrators. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has added the possibility to perform additional tasks using the collected host information. Tasks like advanced fingerprinting and service discovery, information gathering, and detection of security vulnerabilities."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" will help you master Nmap and its scripting engine. You will learn how to use this tool to do a wide variety of practical tasks for pentesting and network monitoring. Finally, after harvesting the power of NSE, you will also learn how to write your own NSE scripts."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" is a book full of practical knowledge for every security consultant, administrator or enthusiast looking to master Nmap. The book overviews the most important port scanning and host discovery techniques supported by Nmap. You will learn how to detect mis-configurations in web, mail and database servers and also how to implement your own monitoring system. The book also covers tasks for reporting, scanning numerous hosts, vulnerability detection and exploitation, and its strongest aspect; information gathering.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Making HTTP requests to identify vulnerable Trendnet webcams


The Nmap Scripting Engine offers a library to handle requests and other common functions of an HTTP client. With this library, NSE developers can accomplish many tasks, from information gathering to vulnerability exploitation.

This recipe will show you how to use the HTTP library to send an HTTP request to identify vulnerable Trendnet TV-IP110W webcams.

How to do it...

Trendnet TV-IP110W webcams allow unauthenticated access to their video feed by simply requesting the URI /anony/mjpg.cgi. Let's write an NSE script to detect these devices. For now, let's ignore the documentation tags:

  1. Create the file http-trendnet-tvip110w.nse and start by filling up the NSE script basic information fields:

    description = [[
    Attempts to detect webcams Trendnet TV-IP110W vulnerable to unauthenticated access to the video stream by querying the URI "/anony/mjpg.cgi".
    
    Original advisory: http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/trendnet-cameras-i-always...