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#Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
o [GH#1622][GH#2068] Fix reverse-DNS handling of PTR records that are not lowercase.
Nmap was failing to identify reverse-DNS names when the DNS server delivered
them like ".IN-ADDR.ARPA". [Lucas Nussbaum, Richard Schütz, Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1999][GH#2005] IKE library was not properly populating the protocol
number in aggressive mode requests. [luc-x41]
o [GH#1963] Added service fingerprinting for MySQL 8.x, Microsoft SQL
Server 2019, MariaDB, and Crate.io CrateDB. Updated PostreSQL coverage and
added specific detection of recent versions running in Docker. [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE] New script uptime-agent-info collects system information from an Idera
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] New outlib library will consolidate functions related to NSE output,
both string formatting conventions and structured output. [Daniel Miller]
o New XML output "hosthint" tag emitted during host discovery when a target is
found to be up. This gives earlier notification than waiting for the
hostgroup to finish all scan phases. [Paul Miseiko]
o [GH#917] New UDP payloads for GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) on ports 2123,
2152, and 3386. [Guillaume Teissier]
o [NSE][GH#1825] SSH scripts now run on several ports likely to be SSH based on
empirical data from Shodan.io, as well as the netconf-ssh service.
[Lim Shi Min Jonathan, Daniel Miller]
o [Zenmap][GH#1777] Stop creating a debugging output file 'tmp.txt' on the
desktop in macOS. [Roland Linder]
o [Nping] Address build failure under libc++ due to "using namespace std;" in
several headers, resulting in conflicting definitions of bind(). Reported by
StormBytePP and Rosen Penev. [Daniel Miller]
o [Ncat][GH#1868] Fix a fatal error when connecting to a Linux VM socket with
verbose output enabled. [Stefano Garzarella]
o [NSE][GH#1723] Fixed a crash on Windows when processing a GZIP-encoded HTTP
body. [Daniel Miller]
o Upgrade libpcap to 1.9.1, which addresses several CVE vulnerabilities.
o Upgrade libssh2 to 1.9.0, fixing compilation with OpenSSL 1.1.0 API.
o [GH#1717][GH#1718] Processing of IP address CIDR blocks was not working
correctly on ppc64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. [rfrohl, nnposter]
o [Windows] Add support for the new loopback behavior in Npcap 0.9983. This
enables Nmap to scan localhost on Windows without needing the Npcap Loopback
Adapter to be installed, which was a source of problems for some users.
[Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#2063] IPP request object conversion to string was not working
correctly [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#2063] IPP response parser was not correctly processing
end-of-attributes-tag [nnposter]
o [NSE] Script cups-info was failing due to erroneous double-decoding
of the IPP printer status [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#2010] Oracle TNS parser was incorrectly unmarshalling DALC byte
arrays [nnposter]
o [NSE] The password hashing function for Oracle 10g was not working correctly
for non-alphanumeric characters [nnposter]
o [NSE] Virtual host probing list, vhosts-full.lst, was missing numerous
entries present in vhosts-default.lst [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1931][GH#1932] Script http-grep was not correctly calculating Luhn
checksum [Colleen Li, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1838] Scripts dhcp-discover and broadcast-dhcp-discover now support
new argument "mac" to force a specific client MAC address [nnposter]
o [NSE] Code improvements in RPC Dump, benefitting NFS-related scripts
[nnposter]
o [NSE] RPC code was using incorrect port range, which was causing some calls,
such as NFS mountd, to fail intermittently [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1876] XML output from script ssl-cert now includes RSA key modulus
and exponent [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1837] Nmap no longer crashes when SMB scripts, such as smb-ls, call
smb.find_files [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1802] The MongoDB library was causing errors when assembling protocol
payloads. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1781][GH#1796] The RTSP library was not correctly generating request
strings. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1706] VNC handshakes were failing with insert position out of bounds
error. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1720] Function marshall_dom_sid2 in library msrpctypes was not
correctly populating ID Authority. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1720] Unmarshalling functions in library msrpctypes were attempting
arithmetic on a nil argument. [Ivan Ivanov, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1720] Functions lsa_lookupnames2 and lsa_lookupsids2 in library
msrpc were incorrectly referencing function strjoin when called with debug
level 2 or higher. [Ivan Ivanov]
o [NSE][GH#1755] Added a default account fingerprint for Tomcat Host Manager.
[Clément Notin]
o [NSE][GH#1476][GH#1707] A MS-SMB spec non-compliance in Samba was causing
protocol negotiation to fail with data string too short error.
[Clément Notin, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1480][GH#1713][GH#1714] A bug in SMB library was causing scripts to
fail with bad format argument error. [Ivan Ivanov]
o [NSE] New script, dicom-brute.nse, attempts to brute force the called
Application Entity Title of DICOM servers. [Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE] New script, dicom-ping.nse, discovers DICOM servers and determines
if any Application Entity Title is allowed to connect. [Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE] New library, dicom.lua, implements the DICOM protocol used for
storing and transfering medical images. [Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE][GH#1665] The HTTP library no longer crashes when code requests digest
authentication but the server does not provide the necessary authentication
header. [nnposter]
o [NSE] Fixed a bug in http-wordpress-users.nse that could cause
extraneous output to be captured as part of a username. [Duarte Silva]
o Added a UDP payload for STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT).
[David Fifield]
o [NSE] Fixed an off-by-one bug in the stun.lua library that prevented
parsing a server response. [David Fifield]
Nmap 7.80 [2019-08-10]
o [Windows] The Npcap Windows packet capturing library (https://npcap.org/)
is faster and more stable than ever. Nmap 7.80 updates the bundled Npcap
from version 0.99-r2 to 0.9982, including all of these changes from the
last 15 Npcap releases: https://nmap.org/npcap/changelog
o [NSE] Added 11 NSE scripts, from 8 authors, bringing the total up to 598!
They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are
below:
+ [GH#1232] broadcast-hid-discoveryd discovers HID devices on a LAN by
sending a discoveryd network broadcast probe. [Brendan Coles]
+ [GH#1236] broadcast-jenkins-discover discovers Jenkins servers on a LAN
by sending a discovery broadcast probe. [Brendan Coles]
+ [GH#1016][GH#1082] http-hp-ilo-info extracts information from HP
Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) servers. [rajeevrmenon97]
+ [GH#1243] http-sap-netweaver-leak detects SAP Netweaver Portal with the
Knowledge Management Unit enabled with anonymous access. [ArphanetX]
+ https-redirect detects HTTP servers that redirect to the same port, but
with HTTPS. Some nginx servers do this, which made ssl-* scripts not run
properly. [Daniel Miller]
+ [GH#1504] lu-enum enumerates Logical Units (LU) of TN3270E servers.
[Soldier of Fortran]
+ [GH#1633] rdp-ntlm-info extracts Windows domain information from RDP
services. [Tom Sellers]
+ smb-vuln-webexec checks whether the WebExService is installed and allows
code execution. [Ron Bowes]
+ smb-webexec-exploit exploits the WebExService to run arbitrary commands
with SYSTEM privileges. [Ron Bowes]
+ [GH#1457] ubiquiti-discovery extracts information from the Ubiquiti
Discovery service and assists version detection. [Tom Sellers]
+ [GH#1126] vulners queries the Vulners CVE database API using CPE
information from Nmap's service and application version detection.
[GMedian, Daniel Miller]
o [GH#1371] The macOS installer is now built for x86_64 architecture, not i386.
o [GH#1396] Fixed the Windows installer, which would replace the entire PATH
system variable with the path for Nmap if it exceeded 1024 bytes. This was
fixed by using the "large strings" build of NSIS to build the new installer.
[Daniel Miller]
o Replaced the addrset matching code that is used by --exclude and
--excludefile with a much faster implementation using a radix tree (trie).
https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2018/q4/13
o [GH#1291][GH#34][GH#1339] Use pcap_create instead of pcap_live_open in
Nmap, and set immediate mode on the pcap descriptor. This solves packet
loss problems on Linux and may improve performance on other platforms.
[Daniel Cater, Mike Pontillo, Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1330] Fixed an infinite loop in tls-alpn when the server forces a
particular protocol. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Collected utility functions for string processing into a new
library, stringaux.lua. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] New rand.lua library uses the best sources of random available on
the system to generate random strings. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] New library, oops.lua, makes reporting errors easy, with plenty of
debugging detail when needed, and no clutter when not. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Collected utility functions for manipulating and searching tables
into a new library, tableaux.lua. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] New knx.lua library holds common functions and definitions for
communicating with KNX/Konnex devices. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1571] The HTTP library now provides transparent support for gzip-
encoded response body. (See https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1571 for an
overview.) [nnposter]
o [Nsock][Ncat][GH#1075] Add AF_VSOCK (Linux VM sockets) functionality to
Nsock and Ncat. VM sockets are used for communication between virtual
machines and the hypervisor. [Stefan Hajnoczi]
o [Security][Windows] Address CVE-2019-1552 in OpenSSL by building with the
prefix "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap\OpenSSL". This should prevent
unauthorized users from modifying OpenSSL defaults by writing
configuration to this directory.
o [Security][GH#1147][GH#1108] Reduced LibPCRE resource limits so that
version detection can't use as much of the stack. Previously Nmap could
crash when run on low-memory systems against target services which are
intentionally or accidentally difficult to match. Someone assigned
CVE-2018-15173 for this issue. [Daniel Miller]
o [GH#1361] Deprecate and disable the -PR (ARP ping) host discovery
option. ARP ping is already used whenever possible, and the -PR option
would not force it to be used in any other case. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] bin.lua is officially deprecated. Lua 5.3, added 2 years ago in Nmap
7.25BETA2, has native support for binary data packing via string.pack and
string.unpack. All existing scripts and libraries have been updated.
[Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Completely removed the bit.lua NSE library. All of its functions are
replaced by native Lua bitwise operations, except for `arshift`
(arithmetic shift) which has been moved to the bits.lua library. [Daniel
Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1571] The HTTP library is now enforcing a size limit on the
received response body. The default limit can be adjusted with a script
argument, which applies to all scripts, and can be overridden case-by-case
with an HTTP request option. (See https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1571
for details.) [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1648] CR characters are no longer treated as illegal in script
XML output. [nnposter]
o [GH#1659] Allow resuming nmap scan with lengthy command line [Clément
Notin]
o [NSE][GH#1614] Add TLS support to rdp-enum-encryption. Enables determining
protocol version against servers that require TLS and lays ground work for
some NLA/CredSSP information collection. [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE][GH#1611] Address two protocol parsing issues in rdp-enum-encryption
and the RDP nse library which broke scanning of Windows XP. Clarify
protocol types [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE][GH#1608] Script http-fileupload-exploiter failed to locate its
resource file unless executed from a specific working
directory. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1467] Avoid clobbering the "severity" and "ignore_404" values of
fingerprints in http-enum. None of the standard fingerprints uses these
fields. [Kostas Milonas]
o [NSE][GH#1077] Fix a crash caused by a double-free of libssh2 session data
when running SSH NSE scripts against non-SSH services. [Seth Randall]
o [NSE][GH#1565] Updates the execution rule of the mongodb scripts to be
able to run on alternate ports. [Paulino Calderon]
o [Ncat][GH#1560] Allow Ncat to connect to servers on port 0, provided that
the socket implementation allows this. [Daniel Miller]
o Update the included libpcap to 1.9.0. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1544] Fix a logic error that resulted in scripts not honoring the
smbdomain script-arg when the target provided a domain in the NTLM
challenge. [Daniel Miller]
o [Nsock][GH#1543] Avoid a crash (Protocol not supported) caused by trying
to reconnect with SSLv2 when an error occurs during DTLS connect. [Daniel
Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1534] Removed OSVDB references from scripts and replaced them
with BID references where possible. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1504] Updates TN3270.lua and adds argument to disable TN3270E
[Soldier of Fortran]
o [GH#1504] RMI parser could crash when encountering invalid input [Clément
Notin]
o [GH#863] Avoid reporting negative latencies due to matching an ARP or ND
response to a probe sent after it was recieved. [Daniel Miller]
o [Ncat][GH#1441] To avoid confusion and to support non-default proxy ports,
option --proxy now requires a literal IPv6 address to be specified using
square-bracket notation, such as --proxy [2001:db8::123]:456. [nnposter]
o [Ncat][GH#1214][GH#1230][GH#1439] New ncat option provides control over
whether proxy destinations are resolved by the remote proxy server or
locally, by Ncat itself. See option --proxy-dns. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1478] Updated script ftp-syst to prevent potential endless
looping. [nnposter]
o [GH#1454] New service probes and match lines for v1 and v2 of the Ubiquiti
Discovery protocol. Devices often leave the related service open and it
exposes significant amounts of information as well as the risk of being
used as part of a DDoS. New nmap-payload entry for v1 of the
protocol. [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE] Removed hostmap-ip2hosts.nse as the API has been broken for a while
and the service was completely shutdown on Feb 17th, 2019. [Paulino
Calderon]
o [NSE][GH#1318] Adds TN3270E support and additional improvements to
tn3270.lua and updates tn3270-screen.nse to display the new
setting. [mainframed]
o [NSE][GH#1346] Updates product codes and adds a check for response length
in enip-info.nse. The script now uses string.unpack. [NothinRandom]
o [Ncat][GH#1310][GH#1409] Temporary RSA keys are now 2048-bit to resolve a
compatibility issue with OpenSSL library configured with security level 2,
as seen on current Debian or Kali. [Adrian Vollmer, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1227] Fix a crash (double-free) when using SSH scripts against
non-SSH services. [Daniel Miller]
o [Zenmap] Fix a crash when Nmap executable cannot be found and the system
PATH contains non-UTF-8 bytes, such as on Windows. [Daniel Miller]
o [Zenmap] Fix a crash in results search when using the dir: operator:
AttributeError: 'SearchDB' object has no attribute 'match_dir' [Daniel
Miller]
o [Ncat][GH#1372] Fixed an issue with Ncat -e on Windows that caused early
termination of connections. [Alberto Garcia Illera]
o [NSE][GH#1359] Fix a false-positive in http-phpmyadmin-dir-traversal when
the server responds with 200 status to a POST request to any
URI. [Francesco Soncina]
o [NSE] New vulnerability state in vulns.lua, UNKNOWN, is used to indicate
that testing could not rule out vulnerability. [Daniel Miller]
o [GH#1355] When searching for Lua header files, actually use them where
they are found instead of forcing /usr/include. [Fabrice Fontaine, Daniel
Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1331] Script traceroute-geolocation no longer crashes when
www.GeoPlugin.net returns null coordinates [Michal Kubenka, nnposter]
o Limit verbose -v and debugging -d levels to a maximum of 10. Nmap does not
use higher levels internally. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] tls.lua when creating a client_hello message will now only use a
SSLv3 record layer if the protocol version is SSLv3. Some TLS
implementations will not handshake with a client offering less than
TLSv1.0. Scripts will have to manually fall back to SSLv3 to talk to
SSLv3-only servers. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1322] Fix a few false-positive conditions in
ssl-ccs-injection. TLS implementations that responded with fatal alerts
other than "unexpected message" had been falsely marked as
vulnerable. [Daniel Miller]
o Emergency fix to Nmap's birthday announcement so Nmap wishes itself a
"Happy 21st Birthday" rather than "Happy 21th" in verbose mode (-v) on
September 1, 2018. [Daniel Miller]
o [GH#1150] Start host timeout clocks when the first probe is sent to a
host, not when the hostgroup is started. Sometimes a host doesn't get
probes until late in the hostgroup, increasing the chance it will time
out. [jsiembida]
o [NSE] Support for edns-client-subnet (ECS) in dns.lua has been improved by:
- [GH#1271] Using ECS code compliant with RFC 7871 [John Bond]
- Properly trimming ECS address, as mandated by RFC 7871 [nnposter]
- Fixing a bug that prevented using the same ECS option table more than
once [nnposter]
o [Ncat][GH#1267] Fixed communication with commands launched with -e or -c
on Windows, especially when --ssl is used. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Script http-default-accounts can now select more than one
fingerprint category. It now also possible to select fingerprints by name
to support very specific scanning. [nnposter]
o [NSE] Script http-default-accounts was not able to run against more than
one target host/port. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1251] New script-arg `http.host` allows users to force a
particular value for the Host header in all HTTP requests.
o [NSE][GH#1258] Use smtp.domain script arg or target's domain name instead
of "example.com" in EHLO command used for STARTTLS. [gwire]
o [NSE][GH#1233] Fix brute.lua's BruteSocket wrapper, which was crashing
Nmap with an assertion failure due to socket mixup [Daniel Miller]: nmap:
nse_nsock.cc:672: int receive_buf(lua_State*, int, lua_KContext):
Assertion `lua_gettop(L) == 7' failed.
o [NSE][GH#1254] Handle an error condition in smb-vuln-ms17-010 caused by
IPS closing the connection. [Clément Notin]
o [Ncat][GH#1237] Fixed literal IPv6 URL format for connecting through HTTP
proxies. [Phil Dibowitz]
o [NSE][GH#1212] Updates vendors from ODVA list for enip-info. [NothinRandom]
o [NSE][GH#1191] Add two common error strings that improve MySQL detection
by the script http-sql-injection. [Robert Taylor, Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE][GH#1220] Fix bug in http-vuln-cve2006-3392 that prevented the script
to generate the vulnerability report correctly. [rewardone]
o [NSE][GH#1218] Fix bug related to screen rendering in NSE library
tn3270. This patch also improves the brute force script
tso-brute. [mainframed]
o [NSE][GH#1209] Fix SIP, SASL, and HTTP Digest authentication when the
algorithm contains lowercase characters. [Jeswin Mathai]
o [GH#1204] Nmap could be fooled into ignoring TCP response packets if they
used an unknown TCP Option, which would misalign the validation, causing
it to fail. [Clément Notin, Daniel Miller]
o [NSE]The HTTP response parser now tolerates status lines without a reason
phrase, which improves compatibility with some HTTP servers. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1169][GH#1170][GH#1171]][GH#1198] Parser for HTTP Set-Cookie header
is now more compliant with RFC 6265:
- empty attributes are tolerated
- double quotes in cookie and/or attribute values are treated literally
- attributes with empty values and value-less attributes are parsed equally
- attributes named "name" or "value" are ignored
[nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1158] Fix parsing http-grep.match script-arg. [Hans van den
Bogert]
o [Zenmap][GH#1177] Avoid a crash when recent_scans.txt cannot be written
to. [Daniel Miller]
o Fixed --resume when the path to Nmap contains spaces. Reported on Windows
by Adriel Desautels. [Daniel Miller]
o New service probe and match lines for adb, the Android Debug Bridge, which
allows remote code execution and is left enabled by default on many
devices. [Daniel Miller]
Nmap 7.70 [2018-03-20]
o [Windows] We made a ton of improvements to our Npcap Windows packet
capturing library (https://nmap.org/npcap/) for greater performance and
stability, as well as smoother installer and better 802.11 raw frame
capturing support. Nmap 7.70 updates the bundled Npcap from version 0.93 to
0.99-r2, including all these changes from the last seven Npcap releases:
https://nmap.org/npcap/changelog
o Integrated all of your service/version detection fingerprints submitted from
March 2017 to August 2017 (728 of them). The signature count went up 1.02%
to 11,672, including 26 new softmatches. We now detect 1224 protocols from
filenet-pch, lscp, and netassistant to sharp-remote, urbackup, and
watchguard. We will try to integrate the remaining submissions in the next
release.
o Integrated all of your IPv4 OS fingerprint submissions from September 2016
to August 2017 (667 of them). Added 298 fingerprints, bringing the new total
to 5,652. Additions include iOS 11, macOS Sierra, Linux 4.14, Android 7, and
more.
o Integrated all 33 of your IPv6 OS fingerprint submissions from September
2016 to August 2017. New groups for OpenBSD 6.0 and FreeBSD 11.0 were added,
as well as strengthened groups for Linux and OS X.
o Added the --resolve-all option to resolve and scan all IP addresses of a
host. This essentially replaces the resolveall NSE script. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][SECURITY] Nmap developer nnposter found a security flaw (directory
traversal vulnerability) in the way the non-default http-fetch script
sanitized URLs. If a user manualy ran this NSE script against a malicious
web server, the server could potentially (depending on NSE arguments used)
cause files to be saved outside the intended destination directory. Existing
files couldn't be overwritten. We fixed http-fetch, audited our other
scripts to ensure they didn't make this mistake, and updated the httpspider
library API to protect against this by default. [nnposter, Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Added 9 NSE scripts, from 8 authors, bringing the total up to 588!
They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are
below:
+ deluge-rpc-brute performs brute-force credential testing against Deluge
BitTorrent RPC services, using the new zlib library. [Claudiu Perta]
+ hostmap-crtsh lists subdomains by querying Google's Certificate
Transparency logs. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#892] http-bigip-cookie decodes unencrypted F5 BIG-IP cookies and
reports back the IP address and port of the actual server behind the
load-balancer. [Seth Jackson]
+ http-jsonp-detection Attempts to discover JSONP endpoints in web servers.
JSONP endpoints can be used to bypass Same-origin Policy restrictions in
web browsers. [Vinamra Bhatia]
+ http-trane-info obtains information from Trane Tracer SC controllers and
connected HVAC devices. [Pedro Joaquin]
+ [GH#609] nbd-info uses the new nbd.lua library to query Network Block
Devices for protocol and file export information. [Mak Kolybabi]
+ rsa-vuln-roca checks for RSA keys generated by Infineon TPMs
vulnerable to Return Of Coppersmith Attack (ROCA) (CVE-2017-15361). Checks
SSH and TLS services. [Daniel Miller]
+ [GH#987] smb-enum-services retrieves the list of services running on a
remote Windows machine. Modern Windows systems requires a privileged domain
account in order to list the services. [Rewanth Cool]
+ tls-alpn checks TLS servers for Application Layer Protocol Negotiation
(ALPN) support and reports supported protocols. ALPN largely replaces NPN,
which tls-nextprotoneg was written for. [Daniel Miller]
o [GH#978] Fixed Nsock on Windows giving errors when selecting on STDIN. This
was causing Ncat 7.60 in connect mode to quit with error: libnsock
select_loop(): nsock_loop error 10038: An operation was attempted on
something that is not a socket. [nnposter]
o [Ncat][GH#197][GH#1049] Fix --ssl connections from dropping on
renegotiation, the same issue that was partially fixed for server mode in
[GH#773]. Reported on Windows with -e by pkreuzt and vinod272. [Daniel
Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1062][GH#1149] Some changes to brute.lua to better handle
misbehaving or rate-limiting services. Most significantly,
brute.killstagnated now defaults to true. Thanks to xp3s and Adamtimtim for
reporing infinite loops and proposing changes.
o [NSE] VNC scripts now support Apple Remote Desktop authentication (auth type
30) [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1111] Fix a script crash in ftp.lua when PASV connection timed out.
[Aniket Pandey]
o [NSE][GH#1114] Update bitcoin-getaddr to receive more than one response
message, since the first message usually only has one address in it. [h43z]
o [Ncat][GH#1139] Ncat now selects the correct default port for a given proxy
type. [Pavel Zhukov]
o [NSE] memcached-info can now gather information from the UDP memcached
service in addition to the TCP service. The UDP service is frequently used as
a DDoS reflector and amplifier. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1129] Changed url.absolute() behavior with respect to dot and
dot-dot path segments to comply with RFC 3986, section 5.2. [nnposter]
o Removed deprecated and undocumented aliases for several long options that
used underscores instead of hyphens, such as --max_retries. [Daniel Miller]
o Improved service scan's treatment of soft matches in two ways. First of all,
any probes that could result in a full match with the soft matched service
will now be sent, regardless of rarity. This improves the chances of
matching unusual services on non-standard ports. Second, probes are now
skipped if they don't contain any signatures for the soft matched service.
Previously the probes would still be run as long as the target port number
matched the probe's specification. Together, these changes should make
service/version detection faster and more accurate. For more details on how
it works, see https://nmap.org/book/vscan.html. [Daniel Miller]
o --version-all now turns off the soft match optimization, ensuring that all
probes really are sent, even if there aren't any existing match lines for
the softmatched service. This is slower, but gives the most comprehensive
results and produces better fingerprints for submission. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1083] New set of Telnet softmatches for version detection based on
Telnet DO/DON'T options offered, covering a wide variety of devices and
operating systems. [D Roberson]
o [GH#1112] Resolved crash opportunities caused by unexpected libpcap version
string format. [Gisle Vanem, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1090] Fix false positives in rexec-brute by checking responses for
indications of login failure. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1099] Fix http-fetch to keep downloaded files in separate
destination directories. [Aniket Pandey]
o [NSE] Added new fingerprints to http-default-accounts:
- Hikvision DS-XXX Network Camera and NUOO DVR [Paulino Calderon]
- [GH#1074] ActiveMQ, Purestorage, and Axis Network Cameras [Rob Fitzpatrick, Paulino Calderon]
o Added a new service detection match for WatchGuard Authentication Gateway.
[Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE][GH#1038][GH#1037] Script qscan was not observing interpacket delays
(parameter qscan.delay). [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#1046] Script http-headers now fails properly if the target does not
return a valid HTTP response. [spacewander]
o [Ncat][Nsock][GH#972] Remove RC4 from the list of TLS ciphers used by
default, in accordance with RFC 7465. [Codarren Velvindron]
o [NSE][GH#1022] Fix a false positive condition in ipmi-cipher-zero caused by
not checking the error code in responses. Implementations which return an
error are not vulnerable. [Juho Jokelainen]
o [NSE][GH#958] Two new libraries for NSE.
- idna - Support for internationalized domain names in applications (IDNA)
- punycode (a transfer encoding syntax used in IDNA)
[Rewanth Cool]
o [NSE] New fingerprints for http-enum:
- [GH#954] Telerik UI CVE-2017-9248 [Harrison Neal]
- [GH#767] Many WordPress version detections [Rewanth Cool]
o [GH#981][GH#984][GH#996][GH#975] Fixed Ncat proxy authentication issues:
- Usernames and/or passwords could not be empty
- Passwords could not contain colons
- SOCKS5 authentication was not properly documented
- SOCKS5 authentication had a memory leak
[nnposter]
o [GH#1009][GH#1013] Fixes to autoconf header files to allow autoreconf to be
run. [Lukas Schwaighofer]
o [GH#977] Improved DNS service version detection coverage and consistency
by using data from a Project Sonar Internet wide survey. Numerouse false
positives were removed and reliable softmatches added. Match lines for
version.bind responses were also conslidated using the technique below.
[Tom Sellers]
o [GH#977] Changed version probe fallbacks so as to work cross protocol
(TCP/UDP). This enables consolidating match lines for services where the
responses on TCP and UDP are similar. [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE][GH#532] Added the zlib library for NSE so scripts can easily
handle compression. This work started during GSOC 2014, so we're
particularly pleased to finally integrate it! [Claudiu Perta, Daniel
Miller]
o [NSE][GH#1004] Fixed handling of brute.retries variable. It was being treated
as the number of tries, not retries, and a value of 0 would result in
infinite retries. Instead, it is now the number of retries, defaulting to 2
(3 total tries), with no option for infinite retries.
o [NSE] http-devframework-fingerprints.lua supports Jenkins server detection
and returns extra information when Jenkins is detected [Vinamra Bhatia]
o [GH#926] The rarity level of MS SQL's service detection probe was decreased.
Now we can find MS SQL in odd ports without increasing version intensity.
[Paulino Calderon]
o [GH#957] Fix reporting of zlib and libssh2 versions in "nmap --version". We
were always reporting the version number of the included source, even when a
different version was actually linked. [Pavel Zhukov]
o Add a new helper function for nmap-service-probes match lines: $I(1,">") will
unpack an unsigned big-endian integer value up to 8 bytes wide from capture
1. The second option can be "<" for little-endian. [Daniel Miller]
Nmap 7.60 [2017-07-31]
o [Windows] Updated the bundled Npcap from 0.91 to 0.93, fixing several issues
with installation and compatibility with the Windows 10 Creators Update.
o [NSE][GH#910] NSE scripts now have complete SSH support via libssh2,
including password brute-forcing and running remote commands, thanks to the
combined efforts of three Summer of Code students: [Devin Bjelland, Sergey
Khegay, Evangelos Deirmentzoglou]
o [NSE] Added 14 NSE scripts from 6 authors, bringing the total up to 579!
They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below:
+ ftp-syst sends SYST and STAT commands to FTP servers to get system version
and connection information. [Daniel Miller]
+ [GH#916] http-vuln-cve2017-8917 checks for an SQL injection vulnerability affecting
Joomla! 3.7.x before 3.7.1. [Wong Wai Tuck]
+ iec-identify probes for the IEC 60870-5-104 SCADA protocol. [Aleksandr
Timorin, Daniel Miller]
+ [GH#915] openwebnet-discovery retrieves device identifying information and
number of connected devices running on openwebnet protocol. [Rewanth Cool]
+ puppet-naivesigning checks for a misconfiguration in the Puppet CA where
naive signing is enabled, allowing for any CSR to be automatically signed.
[Wong Wai Tuck]
+ [GH#943] smb-protocols discovers if a server supports dialects NT LM 0.12
(SMBv1), 2.02, 2.10, 3.00, 3.02 and 3.11. This replaces the old
smbv2-enabled script. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#943] smb2-capabilities lists the supported capabilities of SMB2/SMB3
servers. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#943] smb2-time determines the current date and boot date of SMB2
servers. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#943] smb2-security-mode determines the message signing configuration of
SMB2/SMB3 servers. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#943] smb2-vuln-uptime attempts to discover missing critical patches in
Microsoft Windows systems based on the SMB2 server uptime. [Paulino Calderon]
+ ssh-auth-methods lists the authentication methods offered by an SSH server.
[Devin Bjelland]
+ ssh-brute performs brute-forcing of SSH password credentials. [Devin Bjelland]
+ ssh-publickey-acceptance checks public or private keys to see if they could
be used to log in to a target. A list of known-compromised key pairs is
included and checked by default. [Devin Bjelland]
+ ssh-run uses user-provided credentials to run commands on targets via SSH.
[Devin Bjelland]
o [NSE] Removed smbv2-enabled, which was incompatible with the new SMBv2/3
improvements. It was fully replaced by the smb-protocols script.
o [Ncat][GH#446] Added Datagram TLS (DTLS) support to Ncat in connect (client)
mode with --udp --ssl. Also added Application Layer Protocol Negotiation
(ALPN) support with the --ssl-alpn option. [Denis Andzakovic, Daniel Miller]
o Updated the default ciphers list for Ncat and the secure ciphers list for
Nsock to use "!aNULL:!eNULL" instead of "!ADH". With the addition of ECDH
ciphersuites, anonymous ECDH suites were being allowed. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#930] Fix ndmp-version and ndmp-fs-info when scanning Veritas Backup
Exec Agent 15 or 16. [Andrew Orr]
o [NSE][GH#943] Added new SMB2/3 library and related scripts. [Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE][GH#950] Added wildcard detection to dns-brute. Only hostnames that
resolve to unique addresses will be listed. [Aaron Heesakkers]
o [NSE] FTP scripts like ftp-anon and ftp-brute now correctly handle
TLS-protected FTP services and use STARTTLS when necessary. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#936] Function url.escape no longer encodes so-called "unreserved"
characters, including hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde, as per RFC 3986.
[nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#935] Function http.pipeline_go no longer assumes that persistent
connections are supported on HTTP 1.0 target (unless the target explicitly
declares otherwise), as per RFC 7230. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#934] The HTTP response object has a new member, version, which
contains the HTTP protocol version string returned by the server, e.g. "1.0".
[nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#938] Fix handling of the objectSID Active Directory attribute
by ldap.lua. [Tom Sellers]
o [NSE] Fix line endings in the list of Oracle SIDs used by oracle-sid-brute.
Carriage Return characters were being sent in the connection packets, likely
resulting in failure of the script. [Anant Shrivastava]
o [NSE][GH#141] http-useragent-checker now checks for changes in HTTP status
(usually 403 Forbidden) in addition to redirects to indicate forbidden User
Agents. [Gyanendra Mishra]
Nmap 7.50 [2017-06-13]
o [Windows] Updated the bundled Npcap from 0.78 to 0.91, with several bugfixes
for WiFi connectivity problems and stability issues. [Daniel Miller, Yang Luo]
o Integrated all of your service/version detection fingerprints submitted from
September to March (855 of them). The signature count went up 2.9% to 11,418.
We now detect 1193 protocols from apachemq, bro, and clickhouse to jmon,
slmp, and zookeeper. Highlights: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2017/q2/140
o [NSE] Added 14 NSE scripts from 12 authors, bringing the total up to 566!
They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below:
+ [GH#743] broadcast-ospf2-discover discovers OSPF 2 routers and neighbors.
OSPFv2 authentication is supported. [Emiliano Ticci]
+ [GH#671] cics-info checks IBM TN3270 services for CICS transaction services
and extracts useful information. [Soldier of Fortran]
+ [GH#671] cics-user-brute does brute-force enumeration of CICS usernames on
IBM TN3270 services. [Soldier of Fortran]
+ [GH#669] http-cookie-flags checks HTTP session cookies for HTTPOnly and
Secure flags. [Steve Benson]
+ http-security-headers checks for the HTTP response headers related to
security given in OWASP Secure Headers Project, giving a brief description
of the header and its configuration value. [Vinamra Bhatia, Ícaro Torres]
+ [GH#740][GH#759] http-vuln-cve2017-5638 checks for the RCE bug in Apache
Struts2. [Seth Jackson]
+ [GH#876] http-vuln-cve2017-5689 detects a privilege escalation
vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00075) in Intel Active Management Technology (AMT)
capable systems. [Andrew Orr]
+ http-vuln-cve2017-1001000 detects a privilege escalation vulnerability in
Wordpress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 (CVE-2017-1001000) [Vinamra Bhatia]
+ [GH#713] impress-remote-discover attempts to pair with the LibreOffice
Impress presentation remote service and extract version info. Pairing is
PIN-protected, and the script can optionally brute-force the PIN. New
service probe and match line also added. [Jeremy Hiebert]
+ [GH#854] smb-double-pulsar-backdoor detects the Shadow Brokers-leaked
Double Pulsar backdoor in Windows SMB servers. [Andrew Orr]
+ smb-vuln-cve-2017-7494 detects a remote code execution vulnerability
affecting Samba versions 3.5.0 and greater with writable shares.
[Wong Wai Tuck]
+ smb-vuln-ms17-010 detects a critical remote code execution vulnerability
affecting SMBv1 servers in Microsoft Windows systems (ms17-010). The
script also reports patched systems. [Paulino Calderon]
+ [GH#686] tls-ticketbleed checks for the Ticketbleed vulnerability
(CVE-2016-9244) in F5 BIG-IP appliances. [Mak Kolybabi]
+ vmware-version queries VMWare SOAP API for version and product information.
Submitted in 2011, this was mistakenly turned into a service probe that was
unable to elicit any matches. [Aleksey Tyurin]
o [Ncat] A series of changes and fixes based on feedback from the Red Hat community:
+ [GH#157] Ncat will now continue trying to connect to each resolved address
for a hostname before declaring the connection refused, allowing it to
fallback from IPv6 to IPv4 or to connect to names that use DNS failover.
[Jaromir Koncicky, Michal Hlavinka]
+ The --no-shutdown option now also works in connect mode, not only in listen mode.
+ Made -i/--idle-timeout not cause Ncat in server mode to close while
waiting for an initial connection. This was also causing -i to interfere
with the HTTP proxy server mode. [Carlos Manso, Daniel Miller]
+ [GH#773] Ncat in server mode properly handles TLS renegotiations and other
situations where SSL_read returns a non-fatal error. This was causing
SSL-over-TCP connections to be dropped. [Daniel Miller]
+ Enable --ssl-ciphers to be used with Ncat in client mode, not only in
server (listen) mode. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] New fingerprints for http-enum:
- Endpoints for Spring MVC and Boot Actuator [Paulino Calderon]
- [GH#620][GH#715] 8 fingerprints for Hadoop infrastructure components
[Thomas Debize, Varunram Ganesh]
o [NSE][GH#266][GH#704][GH#238][GH#883] NSE libraries smb and msrpc now use
fully qualified paths. SMB scripts now work against all modern versions
of Microsoft Windows. [Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE] smb library's share_get_list now properly uses anonymous connections
first before falling back authenticating as a known user.
o New service probes and matches for Apache HBase and Hadoop MapReduce.
[Paulino Calderon]
o Extended Memcached service probe and added match for Apache ZooKeeper.
[Paulino Calderon]
o [NSE] New script argument "vulns.short" will reduce vulns library script
output to a single line containing the target name or IP, the vulnerability
state, and the CVE ID or title of the vulnerability. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE][GH#862] SNMP scripts will now take a community string provided like
`--script-args creds.snmp=private`, which previously did not work because it
was interpreted as a username. [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Resolved several issues in the default HTTP redirect rules:
- [GH#826] A redirect is now cancelled if the original URL contains
embedded credentials
- [GH#829] A redirect test is now more careful in determining whether
a redirect destination is related to the original host
- [GH#830] A redirect is now more strict in avoiding possible redirect
loops
[nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#766] The HTTP Host header will now include the port unless it is
the default one for a given scheme. [nnposter]
o [NSE] The HTTP response object has a new member, fragment, which contains
a partially received body (if any) when the overall request fails to
complete. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#866] NSE now allows cookies to have arbitrary attributes, which
are silently ignored (in accordance with RFC 6265). Unrecognized attributes
were previously causing HTTP requests with such cookies to fail. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#844] NSE now correctly parses a Set-Cookie header that has unquoted
whitespace in the cookie value (which is allowed per RFC 6265). [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#731] NSE is now able to process HTTP responses with a Set-Cookie
header that has an extraneous trailing semicolon. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#708] TLS SNI now works correctly for NSE HTTP requests initiated
with option any_af. As an added benefit, option any_af is now available for
all connections via comm.lua, not just HTTP requests. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#781] There is a new common function, url.get_default_port(),
to obtain the default port number for a given scheme. [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#833] Function url.parse() now returns the port part as a number,
not a string. [nnposter]
o No longer allow ICMP Time Exceeded messages to mark a host as down during
host discovery. Running traceroute at the same time as Nmap was causing
interference. [David Fifield]
o [NSE][GH#807] Fixed a JSON library issue that was causing long integers
to be expressed in the scientific/exponent notation. [nnposter]
o [NSE] Fixed several potential hangs in NSE scripts that used
receive_buf(pattern), which will not return if the service continues to send
data that does not match pattern. A new function in match.lua, pattern_limit,
is introduced to limit the number of bytes consumed while searching for the
pattern. [Daniel Miller, Jacek Wielemborek]
o [Nsock] Handle any and all socket connect errors the same: raise as an Nsock
error instead of fatal. This prevents Nmap and Ncat from quitting with
"Strange error from connect:" [Daniel Miller]
o [NSE] Added several commands to redis-info to extract listening addresses,
connected clients, active channels, and cluster nodes. [Vasiliy Kulikov]
o [NSE][GH#679][GH#681] Refreshed script http-robtex-reverse-ip, reflecting
changes at the source site (www.robtex.com). [aDoN]
o [NSE][GH#629] Added two new fingerprints to http-default-accounts
(APC Management Card, older NetScreen ScreenOS) [Steve Benson, nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#716] Fix for oracle-tns-version which was sending an invalid TNS
probe due to a string escaping mixup. [Alexandr Savca]
o [NSE][GH#694] ike-version now outputs information about supported attributes
and unknown vendor ids. Also, a new fingerprint for FortiGate VPNs was
submitted by Alexis La Goutte. [Daniel Miller]
o [GH#700] Enabled support for TLS SNI on the Windows platform. [nnposter]
o [GH#649] New service probe and match lines for the JMON and RSE services of
IBM Explorer for z/OS. [Soldier of Fortran]
o Removed a duplicate service probe for Memcached added in 2011 (the original
probe was added in 2008) and reported as duplicate in 2013 by Pavel Kankovsky.
o New service probe and match line for NoMachine NX Server remote desktop.
[Justin Cacak]
o [Zenmap] Fixed a recurring installation problem on OS X/macOS where Zenmap
was installed to /Applications/Applications/Zenmap.app instead of
/Applications/Zenmap.app.
o [Zenmap][GH#639] Zenmap will no longer crash when no suitable temporary
directory is found. Patches contributed by [Varunram Ganesh] and [Sai Sundhar]
o [Zenmap][GH#626] Zenmap now properly handles the -v0 (no output) option,
which was added in Nmap 7.10. Previously, this was treated the same as not
specifying -v at all. [lymanZerga11]
o [GH#630] Updated or removed some OpenSSL library calls that were deprecated
in OpenSSL 1.1. [eroen]
o [NSE] Script ssh-hostkey now recognizes and reports Ed25519 keys [nnposter]
o [NSE][GH#627] Fixed script hang in several brute scripts due to the "threads"
script-arg not being converted to a number. Error message was
"nselib/brute.lua:1188: attempt to compare number with string" [Arne Beer]
Nmap 7.40 [2016-12-20]
o [Windows] Updated the bundled Npcap from 0.10r9 to 0.78r5, with an
improved installer experience, driver signing updates to work with
Windows 10 build 1607, and bugfixes for WiFi connectivity
problems. [Yang Luo, Daniel Miller]