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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Attacking Tomcat's passwords with Metasploit


Apache Tomcat, or simply Tomcat, is one of the most widely used servers for Java web applications in the world. It is also very common to find a Tomcat server with some configurations left by default, among those configurations. It is surprisingly usual to find that a server has the web application manager exposed, this is the application that allows the administrator to start, stop, add, and delete applications in the server.

In this recipe, we will use a Metasploit module to perform a dictionary attack over a Tomcat server in order to obtain access to its manager application.

Getting ready

Before we start using the Metasploit Framework, we will need to start the database service in a root terminal run:

service postgresql start

How to do it...

  1. Start the Metasploit's console:

    msfconsole
    
  2. When it starts, we need to load the proper module and type the following in the msf> prompt:

    use auxiliary/scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_login
    
  3. We may want to see what parameter...

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