Script nessus-brute

Script types: portrule
Categories: intrusive, brute
Download: https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/nessus-brute.nse

Script Summary

Performs brute force password auditing against a Nessus vulnerability scanning daemon using the NTP 1.2 protocol.

Script Arguments

passdb, unpwdb.passlimit, unpwdb.timelimit, unpwdb.userlimit, userdb

See the documentation for the unpwdb library.

creds.[service], creds.global

See the documentation for the creds library.

brute.credfile, brute.delay, brute.emptypass, brute.firstonly, brute.guesses, brute.mode, brute.passonly, brute.retries, brute.start, brute.threads, brute.unique, brute.useraspass

See the documentation for the brute library.

Example Usage

nmap --script nessus-brute -p 1241 <host>

Script Output

PORT     STATE SERVICE
1241/tcp open  nessus
| nessus-brute:
|   Accounts
|     nessus:nessus - Valid credentials
|   Statistics
|_    Performed 35 guesses in 75 seconds, average tps: 0

This script does not appear to perform well when run using multiple threads
Although, it's very slow running under a single thread it does work as intended

Requires

• brute
• creds
• match
• shortport

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Author:

• Patrik Karlsson

License: Same as Nmap--See https://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html