RE: nessus which plug'in reports which vulnerability?

["Pete Herzog" <pete () isecom org>]

Hi,

try:

grep "zone transfer" /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/*

That's assuming you have the default dir setup.

While you offered a simple example, also searching on the CVE or CAN
would get you the plug-in.  Using an mySQL back-end, I suppose you
could match key-words from the report back to the plug-ins by name.
Even a spreadsheet would be okay for that too if you don't mind a
little copy/paste work.

Sincerely,
-pete.

Pete Herzog, Managing Director, OPST, OPSA
Institute for Security and Open Methodologies
www.isecom.org - www.osstmm.org
www.hackerhighschool.org - www.isestorm.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cissper [mailto:cissper () yahoo com au]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 03:24 AM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: nessus which plug'in reports which vulnerability?
>
>
> Hi all
>
> One of my favourite general purpose scanner is nessus for obvious
> reasons. However, I do struggle with the interpretation and
> evaluation
> of the results:
> After the scan, I use the report function to generate a HTML type
> report. The vulnerabilities listed in that report are not associated
> with the plug-in's that detected them in the first place. How can I
> possible know which plug-in detected which vulnerability? I need to
> validate the identified vulnerabilities in order to eliminate false
> positives, therefore I would like to know which script was used to
> identify a certain vulnerability.
>
> One simple example:
> nessus reports that a DNS zone transfer was possible.
> However, when I
> try to manually perform a zone transfer, I am not able to do so!
> The conclusion would be a false positive - but - maybe the script is
> using a more sophisticated approach and is successful! The next step
> would be to look at the plug' in which detected the
> vulnerability in the
> first place - and I don't know which one it is.
>
> Any ideas guys?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
> cissper
>
>
>
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