Objective Changes to the permissions on files could block security settings from being applied. Changes to the permissions on files could leak sensitive information. Changes to the permissions on files could lead to a system compromise. Audit files. Manual audit with powershell View the permission on the application log file with powershell get-acl "C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINEVT\LOGS\application.evtx" | fl […]
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Objective: Resolved the error “PASSWORD_COMPLEXITY_UNSUPPORTED_ON_AGENT” when running a Windows auditfile via a Nessus Agent.
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Nessus Output: Description The remote host is missing one or more of the following Microsoft updates: KB2871997, KB2973351, KB2975625, KB2982378, KB2984972, KB2984976, KB2984981, KB2973501, or KB3126593. These updates are needed to improve the protection against possible credential theft. - For Windows 7 / 2008 R2 : KB2984972, KB2871997, KB2982378, and KB2973351 are required; also, KB2984976 […]
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Objective: Audit “Advanced Audit Policy Configuration Settings” Hardening / Configuring “Advanced Audit Policy Configuration Settings”
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Objective: Audit “User Rights Assignment” Hardening / Configuring “User Rights Assignment”
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Nessus Output: Description The remote service accepts connections encrypted using SSL 2.0 and/or SSL 3.0. These versions of SSL are affected by several cryptographic flaws. An attacker can exploit these flaws to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks or to decrypt communications between the affected service and clients. NIST has determined that SSL 3.0 is no longer acceptable […]
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Nessus Output: Description The remote host supports SSLv2 and therefore may be affected by a vulnerability that allows a cross-protocol Bleichenbacher padding oracle attack known as DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption). This vulnerability exists due to a flaw in the Secure Sockets Layer Version 2 (SSLv2) implementation, and it allows captured TLS […]
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Nessus Output: Description The remote host allows SSL/TLS connections with one or more Diffie-Hellman moduli less than or equal to 1024 bits. Through cryptanalysis, a third party may be able to find the shared secret in a short amount of time (depending on modulus size and attacker resources). This may allow an attacker to recover […]
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Objective: Check your webserver SSL/TLS configuration via online tools.
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Nessus Output Description The remote Windows host supports Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol version 1. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified remote code execution vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note that this vulnerability is one of multiple Equation Group vulnerabilities and exploits disclosed by a group known as […]
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Objective Resolve this finding
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Objective Resolve this finding
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Objective Resolve this finding
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Objective Use only strong SSL Cipher Suites Resolve ‘SSL 64-bit Block Size Cipher Suites Supported (SWEET32)’ Resolve ‘SSL RC4 Cipher Suites Supported (Bar Mitzvah)‘
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Nessus Output Description The remote host supports the use of SSL ciphers that offer medium strength encryption. Nessus regards medium strength as any encryption that uses key lengths at least 56 bits and less than 112 bits, or else that uses the 3DES encryption suite. Note that it is considerably easier to circumvent medium strength […]
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practice for systems running IIS, part of Hardening IIS:
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Best practices and references used for hardening Sitecore.
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Objective Remove the X-AspNetMvc-Version HTTP header
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Objective Remove the X-Powered-By HTTP header
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Objective Remove the X-Aspnet-Version HTTP header
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Nessus Output Synopsis : The remote web server does not take steps to mitigate a class of web application vulnerabilities. Description : The remote web server in some responses sets a permissive Content-Security-Policy (CSP) response header or does not set one at all. The CSP header has been proposed by the W3C Web Application Security […]
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Nessus Output The remote web server reveals the physical path of the webroot when a nonexistent page is requested. While printing errors to the output is useful for debugging applications, this feature should be disabled on production servers.
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Nikto Output OSVDB-630: IIS may reveal its internal or real IP in the Location header via a request to the /images directory. The value is "http://<ipaddress>/images/".
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Often, during a penetration test on web applications, we come up against many error codes generated from applications or web servers. It’s possible to cause these errors to be displayed by using a particular requests, either specially crafted with tools or created manually. These codes are very useful to penetration testers during their activities, because […]
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Nikto Output DEBUG HTTP verb may show server debugging information. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e8z01xdh%28VS.80%29.aspx for details.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment and when performing the Fingerprint Web Server (Passive) and Fingerprint Web Server (Active) Tests.
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Nikto Output The X-Content-Type-Options header is not set. This could allow the user agent to render the content of the site in a different fashion to the MIME type
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Nikto Output The X-XSS-Protection header is not defined. This header can hint to the user agent to protect against some forms of XSS
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Nikto output The site uses SSL and the Strict-Transport-Security HTTP header is not defined
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Nessus Output Description The remote DNS server responds to queries for third-party domains that do not have the recursion bit set. This may allow a remote attacker to determine which domains have recently been resolved via this name server, and therefore which hosts have been recently visited. For instance, if an attacker was interested in […]
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Objective Group Policy Objects contain sensitive configuration information which can be viewed by default by at least all members of the Domain. Misconfigurations of Group Policy settings or its content can have a huge impact on the environment. A periodic audit is advised.
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Account Policies are settings related to The Password Policy The Account Lockout Policy
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Objective Changes to the permissions on group policy registry keys could block security settings from being applied. Audit these registry keys (and subkeys).
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Nessus Output Synopsis : The remote device supports LLMNR. Description : The remote device answered to a Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) request. This protocol provides a name lookup service similar to NetBIOS or DNS. It is enabled by default on modern Windows versions. Reported Risk factor by Nessus: None In my option the severity should […]
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Steps to harden Google Chrome: Updating Google Chrome Review best practices Configure Group Policy settings
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Objective Verify the HTTP Response headers of your Web Site/Apps.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment. But also Netsparker will report this issue during your scanning phase.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment. But also Nessus will report this issue during your scanning phase.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment. But also Nessus will report this issue during your scanning phase.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment. But also Nikto and Nessus will report this issue during your scanning phase.
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You probably gonna find this issue in your manual browsing and spidering phase of your assessment. But also Nikto and Nessus will report this issue during your scanning phase.
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Nessus Output Description Some daemon processes on the remote host are associated with programs that have been installed manually. System administration best practice dictates that an operating system’s native package management tools be used to manage software installation, updates, and removal whenever possible.
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Nessus Output Description The remote SSH server is configured to allow either MD5 or 96-bit MAC algorithms, both of which are considered weak. Note that this plugin only checks for the options of the SSH server, and it does not check for vulnerable software versions.
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Nessus Output Description Nessus has detected that the remote SSH server is configured to use the Arcfour stream cipher or no cipher at all. RFC 4253 advises against using Arcfour due to an issue with weak keys.
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Nessus Output Description The version of Windows running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability in the HTTP protocol stack (HTTP.sys) due to improperly parsing crafted HTTP requests. A remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code with System privileges.
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Tools … that can be used to perform SMB enumeration.
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Resources used for auditing and hardening of Netapp devices:
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Nessus Output Description The remote host supports IPMI v2.0. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to the support of RMCP+ Authenticated Key-Exchange Protocol (RAKP) authentication. A remote attacker can obtain password hash information for valid user accounts via the HMAC from a RAKP message 2 response […]
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Description A virtualization manager is a virtualization environment management application that provides capabilities to create, edit, remove and monitor virtual machines. A virtualization manager provides a complete management solution for many different virtual machines simultaneously through a single application management console. A virtualization manager is also known as a virtual machine manager, a virtual machine […]
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Description VMware vRealize Suite is a software product suite designed to enable IT professionals to create and manage hybrid clouds. The vRealize Suite bundles existing management software, including IT Business Management Suite, vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCenter LogInsight.
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Nessus Output Description Signing is not required on the remote SMB server. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks against the SMB server.
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Nessus You can use Nessus to detect TortoiseSVN: Subversion Client/Server Detection (Windows) (40619) Microsoft Windows Installed Software Enumeration (credentialed check) (20811) SNMP Query Installed Software Disclosure (19763) There are currently no version checking / vulnerability plugins. A manual vulnerability assessment is required.
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Nessus Output KB 3000483 or a related, subsequent update was successfully installed, but the GPO setting "Hardened UNC Paths" has not been enabled.
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Nessus Output On Windows 10 the following output is recorded even if all Windows updates are applied. - C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Deployment.dll has not been patched. Remote version : 2.0.50727.8670 Should be : 2.0.50727.8671
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Nessus Output Nessus determined the workaround is not being used because the following registry value does not exist : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows\Sidebar\TurnOffSidebar
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Nessus Description The registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\CachedLogonsCount is non-null. It means that the remote host locally caches the passwords of the users when they log in, in order to continue to allow the users to log in in the case of the failure of the PDC.
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Nessus Output The workaround to disable SSL 3.0 for all server software installed on the remote host has not been applied. The workaround to disable SSL 3.0 for all client software installed on the remote host has not been applied.
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Nessus Output The following registry values have not been set to 1 : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v2.0.50727\SchUseStrongCrypto HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v2.0.50727\SchUseStrongCrypto
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Nessus Output ASLR hardening settings for Internet Explorer in KB3125869 have not been applied. The following DWORD keys must be created with a value of 1: - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ALLOW_USER32_EXCEPTION_HANDLER_HARDENING\iexplore.exe - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ALLOW_USER32_EXCEPTION_HANDLER_HARDENING\iexplore.exe
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Nessus Plugin Output The remote host contains one or more unsupported versions of the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) or XML Core Services. Downloading and Installing Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 does not fix this issue.
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Nessus Output ntdll.dll has been upgraded by KB2264107 or a related, subsequent update, but the following registry entry has not been set : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\CWDIllegalInDllSearch
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Best practices and references used for hardening MySQL.
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Best practices and references used for hardening JBoss.
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