Script telnet-brute

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

Script Summary

Performs brute-force password auditing against telnet servers.

Script Arguments

telnet-brute.autosize

Whether to automatically reduce the thread count based on the behavior of the target (default: "true")

telnet-brute.timeout

Connection time-out timespec (default: "5s")

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 -p 23 --script telnet-brute --script-args userdb=myusers.lst,passdb=mypwds.lst,telnet-brute.timeout=8s <target>

Script Output

23/tcp open  telnet
| telnet-brute:
|   Accounts
|     wkurtz:colonel
|   Statistics
|_    Performed 15 guesses in 19 seconds, average tps: 0

Requires

• comm
• coroutine
• creds
• match
• nmap
• shortport
• stdnse
• strbuf
• string
• brute

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Author:

• nnposter

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