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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Listing MySQL variables

MySQL servers have several environment variables that are used in different ways by system administrators and web developers. This recipe shows you how to use Nmap to list environment variables in MySQL servers.

How to do it...

Open your terminal and enter the following command:

$ nmap -p3306 --script mysql-variables --script-args mysqluser=<root>,mysqlpass=<pass> <target>

The MySQL variables will be listed under the script output:

3306/tcp open   mysql
| mysql-variables:
|     auto_increment_increment: 1
|     auto_increment_offset: 1
|     automatic_sp_privileges: ON
|     back_log: 50
|     basedir: /usr/
|     binlog_cache_size: 32768
|     bulk_insert_buffer_size: 8388608
|     character_set_client: latin1
|&...