Plugin ID | 32 |
Plugin name | Proxy POST port tcp/21 detection |
Plugin filename | Proxy POST port 21 detection.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 2543 bytes |
Plugin family | Firewalls |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2003/11/14 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/14 |
Plugin version | 2.0 |
Plugin changelog | Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.3. Improved the pattern matching and introduced the plugin changelog in 2.0 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 80 |
Plugin procedure detection | open|send POST http://www.computec.ch:21/ HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# 200 * |
Plugin detection accuracy | 90 |
Plugin comment | This plugin was written with the ATK Attack Editor. |
Bug affected | Some web proxies |
Bug vulnerability class | Configuration |
Bug description | Some proxies allow interactive connections to not directly supported ports with an POST request without content-length tag. |
Bug solution | Reconfigure your proxy so that only the users of the internal network can use it, and so that it can not connect to dangerous ports (0-1023). |
Bug fixing time | 20 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | High |
Bug popularity | 8 |
Bug simplicity | 7 |
Bug impact | 7 |
Bug risk | 7 |
Bug Nessus risk | High |
Bug check tools | Nessus is able to do the same check. |
Source Nessus ID | 10194 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |