- #SSL SCAN MASTER INSTALL#
- #SSL SCAN MASTER UPDATE#
- #SSL SCAN MASTER ARCHIVE#
- #SSL SCAN MASTER CODE#
- #SSL SCAN MASTER DOWNLOAD#
Here is a sample from an Nginx web server being tested by Nikto. Essentially Nikto is testing for the presence of thousands of possible web paths, and checking the response from the web server - which for most items will be a 404 not found. An important thing to understand when testing a site with Nikto is the amount of noise that this creates in the web server log files. If we review the web server logs we will be able to see the different items that were tested by the scanner. As well as the time taken for the scan and total number of items tested. In the output we can see the items that were detected as interesting by Nikto. + 5567 items checked: 0 error(s) and 10 item(s) reported on remote host + The Content-Encoding header is set to "deflate" this may mean that the server is vulnerable to the BREACH attack. + "robots.txt" contains 2 entries which should be manually viewed.
#SSL SCAN MASTER CODE#
+ Entry '/wp-admin/' in robots.txt returned a non-forbidden or redirect HTTP code (302) + No CGI Directories found (use '-C all' to force check all possible dirs) This could allow the user agent to render the content of the site in a different fashion to the MIME type + The X-Content-Type-Options header is not set. + Uncommon header 'link' found, with multiple values: ( rel="", rel=shortlink,) This header can hint to the user agent to protect against some forms of XSS + The X-XSS-Protection header is not defined. + The anti-clickjacking X-Frame-Options header is not present. + Retrieved x-powered-by header: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.22 Issuer: /C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3 The web server on the target responds to the Nikto tests as it would any request to the web server, we can see from the results that the target is a WordPress based site. In the example below we are testing the virtual host () on 16x.2xx.2xx.1xx over HTTPS. Starting a Nikto Web Scanįor a simple test we will use test a single host name. Without SSL/TLS support you will not be able to test sites over HTTPS.
#SSL SCAN MASTER INSTALL#
If there are any errors regarding SSL support it may be necessary to apt install libnet-ssleay-perl. Version Print plugin and database versions
#SSL SCAN MASTER UPDATE#
update Update databases and plugins from timeout+ Timeout for requests (default 10 seconds) root+ Prepend root value to all requests, format is /directory Plugins+ List of plugins to run (default: ALL) id+ Host authentication to use, format is id:pass or id:pass:realm dbcheck check database and other key files for syntax errors You should see the following output after running This should be your results from a working installation: perl
#SSL SCAN MASTER ARCHIVE#
You can unpack it with an archive manager tool or use tar and gzip together with this command.
#SSL SCAN MASTER DOWNLOAD#
On a default installation of Ubuntu, launch a terminal and using a standard user account download the latest version of Nikto. By using a virtual machine you can test Nikto and many other open source security tools without affecting your production workstation. The majority of free security testing tools are developed on and for Linux based systems. For a starters it makes getting tools such as Nikto a very simple process, as well as develop some skills using Linux based operating system that will benefit all aspects of your security testing. If you are running Microsoft Windows as your main operating system you may find having a virtual machine with Kali Linux or Ubuntu will bring a number of benefits.