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

Why subscribe?

Reporting vulnerability checks

Nmap can be used as a vulnerability scanner with the help of some NSE scripts. While this is not Nmap's main objective, the vulnerability detection scripts available are great. The NSE vuln library manages and unifies the output of the vulnerability checks performed by NSE.

This recipe will show you how to make Nmap report the vulnerability checks performed during a scan.

How to do it...

Launch the NSE scripts in the vuln category against your target:

$nmap -sV --script vuln <target>

If Nmap finds a vulnerability, it will be included in the report:

| smb2-vuln-uptime:
|   VULNERABLE:
|   MS17-010: Security update for Windows SMB Server
|     State: LIKELY VULNERABLE
|     IDs:  ms:ms17-010  CVE:2017-0147
|       This system is missing a security update that resolves vulnerabilities in
| ...