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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786467454
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Paulino Calderon Paulino Calderon
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Nmap Fundamentals 2. Network Exploration FREE CHAPTER 3. Reconnaissance Tasks 4. Scanning Web Servers 5. Scanning Databases 6. Scanning Mail Servers 7. Scanning Windows Systems 8. Scanning ICS SCADA Systems 9. Optimizing Scans 10. Generating Scan Reports 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts 12. HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options 13. Brute Force Password Auditing Options 14. NSE Debugging 15. Additional Output Options 16. Introduction to Lua 17. References and Additional Reading

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 enabled in order to protect databases in the instance. Therefore, it is very 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, enter the following command:

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

The databases will be shown in the script output section:

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

How it works...

We launch the NSE script mongodb-databases if a MongoDB server is found running on port 27017 (-p 27017 --script mongodb-databases). By default, MongoDB does not have authentication enabled. If the administrators haven't configured users and roles, the databases will be accessible to anyone.

The script...

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