source: trunk/docs/CHANGES.txt @ 326

Revision 326, 29.9 KB checked in by deity, 3 years ago (diff)

Some removal of the fetch function

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12010-02-10
2        - Updated -check_updates to use nfetch instead of fetch
32010-02-09
4        - Updated -Plugins support
52010-02-08
6        - Add filename support to rm_active_content
7        - Ticket 122: Use db_404_strings as a higher priority
8        - Ticket 122: Cleanup db_404_strings to prevent over-matching
92010-02-05
10        - Added basic support for -D s (scrub, removes some information from the log)
112010-02-04
12        - Match plugin names case-insensitive
13        - Warn if RFIURL is undefined
142010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
15        - Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
16        - Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
17        - Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
18        - Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
19        - Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
20        - Ticket 109: Added an extra optional <ssl /> element to xml output to contain the SSL date. Need to do similar for html, txt and csv
21        - Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
22        - Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
23        - Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
24        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
25        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
26        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
27        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
28        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
29        - Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
30        - Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
31        - Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
32        - Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
33        - Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
34        - Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
35        - Major bug fix for proxy usage
36        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
37        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
38        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
39        - Fix for multiple index files
402009-12-21 nikto.pl
41        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
42        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
432009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
44        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
452009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
46        - Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
472009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
48        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
492009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
50        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
51        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
522009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
53        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
54        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
552009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
56        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
57        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
582009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
59        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
60        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
612009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
62        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
63        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
642009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
65        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
66        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
67        - Tickets 80 and 85
682009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
69        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
70        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
712009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
72        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
73        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
74        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
75        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
76        - New item for ticket #75
772009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
78        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
79        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
802009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
81        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
82        - Added -mutate-options switch
832009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
84        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
852009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
86        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
87        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
88        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
89        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
902009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
91        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
92        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
93        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
94        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
952008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
96        - Added report phase to plugin runner
972008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
98        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
992008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
100        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
101        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
1022008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
103        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
104        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
105        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
1062008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
107        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
1082008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
109        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
1102008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
111        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
112        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
1132008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
114        - Fix for ticket #37
115        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
116        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
1172008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
118        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
119        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
120        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
121        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
1222008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
123        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
124        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
125        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
1262008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
127        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
128        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
1292008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
130        - Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
131        - Ticket 53
1322008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
133        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
1342008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
135        - New export of the manual from the docbook
136        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
1372008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
138        - Added various new versions
1392008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
140        - Fix for ticket #45
141        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
1422008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
143        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
144        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
1452008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
146        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
1472008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
148        - Fix for ticket #11 - change CGIDIRS test so that they're not hardcoded. The reponse codes are now kept in a variable in db_variables
149        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
150        - Fix for ticket #39 - we now check whether getoptions failed, show usage and exit with a code of one. This also means that it will exit gracefully if a parameter is missed out when one is required.
1512008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
152        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
153        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
1542008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
155        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
1562008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
157        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
1582008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
159        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
1602008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
161        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
162        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
1632008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
164        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
1652008-04-14 templates/htm*
166        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
1672008-04-11 nikto.pl
168        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
169        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
1702008-04-11 db_outdated
171        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
17201.06.2008 2.02
173        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
174        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
175        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
176        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
177        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
178        - Updated documentation
17901.02.2008 nikto_core
180        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
18112.30.2007 db_servers
182        - Removed as it is not used
18312.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
184        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
18512.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
186        - Added OSVDB ID
18712.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
188        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
18911.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
190        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
191        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
192        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
193        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
194        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
195        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
196        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
197        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
198        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
19911.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
200         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
20111.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
202         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
203         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
204         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
205         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
206         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
207         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
208         - All new HTML report
209         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
210         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
211         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
212         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
213         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
214         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
215         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
216         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
217         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
218         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
219         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
220         - Removed -generic
221         - Removed extraneous global vars
222         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
223         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
224         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
225         - Added -Single single request mode
226         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
227         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
228         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
229         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
230         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
231         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
232         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
233         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
234         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
235         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
236         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
237         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
238         - Send all errors to STDERR
239         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
240         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
241         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
242         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
243         - ... gobs more
24402.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
245        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
246        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
247        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
248        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
249        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
250        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
25112.17.2003
252        nikto_core.plugin 1.20
253         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
25410.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
255        nikto_core.plugin 1.19
256         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
257         - Removed unecessary counters
258         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
259         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
260         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
261         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
262         - Bugfix: a regex/logic/if error in test_target, thanks Pavel Kankovsky for the bug report. 401/302 messages will now report regardless of test/pass fail.
263         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
264        nikto.pl        1.12
265         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
266        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
267         - Added DAAP header check
26810.02.2003
269        nikto_core.plugin 1.18
270         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
27110.01.2003
272        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
273         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
274
27509.30.2003
276        nikto_core.plugin 1.17
277         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
278         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
279        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
280         - Stripping () from version strings
28109.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
282        nikto_core.plugin 1.16
283         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
284         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
285         - Changed set_targets so that if the -h value exists as a file it reads that instead of resolving it as a name. This eliminates need for .csv or .txt file name endings.
286         - Added auto or semi-auto update of version strings to CIRT.net. This is done through a simple GET request. Controlled via config.txt's UPDATES variable.
287           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
288         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
289         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
290         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
291         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
292         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
293         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
294         - Cleaned up port scan code
295         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
296        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
297         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
298    LW.pm - 1.8
299         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
300    nikto.pl - 1.10
301         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
302         - Put 'require LW.pm' down *after* we know where it is.. duh. Thanks J Barber (ussysadmin.com) for the suggestion. Also changed it 'require' vs 'use' so in the future I can update it, if necessary.
303         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
30408.18.2003
305        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
306         - Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
30707.22.2003
308        nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
309         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
310        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
311         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
312        nikto_core.plugin 1.14
313         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
314         - Removed a stray debug print
31507.03.2003
316         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
31706.29.2003
318        nikto_core.plugin 1.13
319         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
320        nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
321         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
32206.29.2003
323        nikto_core.plugin 1.12
324         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
32506.29.2003
326        nikto_core.plugin 1.11
327         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
32806.19.2003
329        nikto_core.plugin 1.10
330         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
331         - minor speedups
33206.17.2003
333        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
334         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
335         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
336        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
337         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
338         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
33906.16.2003
340        nikto_core.plugin 1.09
341         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
342         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
343         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
344         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
34506.12.2003
346        nikto_core.plugin 1.08
347         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
348         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
34905.30.2003
350        nikto_core.plugin 1.07
351         - Bugfix:
35205.30.2003
353        nikto_core.plugin 1.06
354         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
355         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
356         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
35705.28.2003
358        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
359         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
36005.27.2003
361        Nikto 1.30 release
362    General changes
363          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
364          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
365          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
366          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
367          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
368            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
369          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
370          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
371          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
372          - all new save file routines
373          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
374          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
375          - added support for NTLM authentication
376          - added cgiwrap plugin
377        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
378        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
379        - Added UA for update agents
380        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
381        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
382        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
383        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
384        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
385        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
386        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
387        - added
388        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
389        - change for using %CLI
390        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
391        - change for using %CLI
392        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
393        - change for using %CLI
394        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
395        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
396        - minor changes for multi-host support
397        plugins_order.txt       1.03
398        - removed nikto_google.plugin
39902.23.2003     
400        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
401        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
402        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
403        - Added to distro
404        realms.db 1.00
405        - Added to distro
406        plugins_order.txt       1.02
407        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
40801.22.2003
409        nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03   
410        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
41101.22.2003
412        nikto_core.plugin 1.03 
413        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
41401.17.2003
415        nikto_core.plugin 1.02 
416        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
41701.02.2003
418        nikto_core.plugin 1.01 
419        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
42001.01.2003
421        Nikto 1.23
422        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
423        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
424        - added -cookies option
425        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
426        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
427        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
428        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
429        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
430        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
431        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
432        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
433        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
434        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
435        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
436        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
437        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
438        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
43908.21.2002
440        Nikto 1.21     
441        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
442        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
44308.12.2002
444        Nikto 1.20
445        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
44608.11.2002
447        Nikto 1.20     
448        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
449        - Added password file mutate plugin
450        - Added better error messages if problems arise
451        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
452        - Added -useproxy CLI
453        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
454        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
455        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
456        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
457        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
45805.25.2002     
459        Nikto 1.100     
460        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
461        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
462        - added robots.txt plugin
463        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
46404.23.2002     
465        Nikto 1.10BETA_3       
466        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
467        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
468        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
469        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
470        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
471        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
47203.31.2002
473        Nikto 1.10BETA_2       
474        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
475        - made proxy_check run only once per session
476        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
47703.23.2002     
478        Nikto 1.10BETA_1
479        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
480        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
481        - usage of LW 1.2
482        - countless "under the hood" type things
483        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
484        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
485        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
486        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
487        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
488        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
489        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
490        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
491        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
492        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
493        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
494        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
495        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
496        - added ability to send message via the update script's versions.txt file. I don't know why, but it may  be handy to let folks know if a new beta is out, or something.
497        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
49801.17.2002
499        Nikto 1.018
500        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
501        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
50201.12.2002     
503        Nikto 1.017
504        - Fixed a bug where the data portion of a request did not reset to null after some checks (thanks to Phil Brass for pointing me at it & letting me test against his server).
50501.10.2002
506        Nikto 1.016
507        - Add dump_*hash functions
508        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
509        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
510        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
511        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
51201.08.2002
513        Nikto 1.015
514        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
515        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
51601.07.2002     
517        Nikto 1.014
518        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
519        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
52001.06.2002
521        Nikto 1.013     
522        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
523        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
52401.03.2002
525        Nikto 1.012
526        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
527        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
528        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
529        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
530        - in case they are needed in the future.
531        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
532        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
533        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
53401.02.2002
535        Nikto 1.011
536        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
537        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
538        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
539        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
54012.31.2001
541        Nikto 1.01
542        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
543        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
544        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
545        - Added -timeout option
54612.27.2001     
547        Nikto 1.00
548        - Finalized beta version for release
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