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 MongoDB instances with no authentication enabled

By default, MongoDB instances do not have access control enabled. Users and roles must be manually configured, and authentication needs to be enabled in order to protect databases in the instance. Therefore, it is quite common to find exposed MongoDB databases that require no authentication.

This recipe describes how to use Nmap to list databases in MongoDB.

How to do it...

To list MongoDB databases with Nmap, enter the following command:

$ nmap -p27017 --script mongodb-databases <target>

The databases are shown in the script output section:

PORT  STATE SERVICE
27017/tcp open  mongodb
|_mongodb-brute: No authentication needed

How it works...

We launch the mongodb-databases NSE script if a MongoDB server is found running on port 27017 (-p 27017 --script mongodb-databases). By default, MongoDB does not have authentication enabled so if the administrators haven't configured...