You're reading from Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649357

Length 436 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Paulino Calderon

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning

4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks

5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases

7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers

8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems

9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems

10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans

12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports

13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options

HTTP user agent

1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options

Brute modes

2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging

3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options

4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua

5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

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Detecting exposed source code control systems

Source code control systems are sometimes exposed in misconfigured web servers. They present a great risk to organizations as they store sensitive information such as source code and, sometimes, even credentials.

This recipe shows how to detect exposed source code control systems on web servers with Nmap.

How to do it...

Use the following Nmap command to detect exposed git repositories in web servers:

$nmap -sV --script http-git <target>

If a .git directory is found, information about the repository will be returned:

PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
80/tcp     open http syn-ack
| http-git:
|    127.0.0.1:80/.git/
|    Git repository found!
|    .git/config matched patterns 'passw'
|    Repository description: Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the...
|    ...