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

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Detecting Cassandra databases with no authentication enabled

By default, Cassandra databases don't have authentication enabled. Apache Cassandra databases are commonly found completely open and accessible remotely because authentication and authorization must be configured manually.

This recipe describes how to use Nmap to detect Apache Cassandra instances with no authentication enabled.

How to do it...

To detect Apache Cassandra databases with no authentication, use the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -p9160 --script cassandra-brute <target>

If authentication is not enabled, the following message will be returned:

PORT STATE SERVICE
9160/tcp  open  apanil
|_cassandra-brute: Any username and password would do, 'default' was used to test

How it works...

The cassandra-brute script was written to perform brute-force password auditing. Because Apache Cassandra does not have authentication enabled by default, it is common to...