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Revision 732, 38.9 KB checked in by sullo, 14 months ago (diff)

Fix some cases with root dir not appearing in screen/report output

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12011-12-21 Nikto 2.1.5 release
2        - Ticket 229: Don't repeat XML headers if appending to an existing report file, thanks to digininja for idea
3        - Ticket 228: Add client SSL certificate support. Thanks to monnerat for code submission!
4        - Ticket 226: Add GMT offset to time outputs
5        - Ticket 225: Template variables now have terminating hash to prevent collisions
6        - Ticket 224: Space in robots.txt kills scanner
7        - Ticket 222: Fix problems with banner parsing related to spaces, should result in fewer missed matches which should be hits.
8        - Ticket 220: Certificate wildcard matching incorrect
9        - Ticket 217: Add -IgnoreCode option to allow db_404_strings' @CODE at the command line
10        - Ticket 211: Shuffled some information in HTML report and added more summary data. Added error count and total check count to XML (note: DTD change).
11        - Ticket 202: -maxtime maximum execution time per host (seconds)
12        - Ticket 175: -until run until specified time or duration
13        - Ticket 174: Checked for sites parked at hosting providers or advertising pages
14        - Ticket 91: Identification of WEBrick fails. Updates made to handle banners with multiple items but no spaces
15        - Add nikto_paths.plugin to look for things to add to db_variables values
16        - Items found in robots.txt are now added to values from db_variables
17        - Keep tokens from getting into %db_extensions, thanks to Erik Cabetas
18        - Fix vhost not being set properly, thanks to Brian Poole
19        - Fix crash on invalid regex chars in robots.txt (dis)allow lines
202011-06-14
21        - Fix condition where match_1 or match_1_or are 4xx response code
22        - Fix condition where blank prefix added via change_variables
23        - Fix some cases where root dir not showing up in screen/report output
242011-03-30
25        - Ticket 208: Strengthen IP matching in cookies (nikto_cookies.plugin)
26        - Ticket 207: -findonly emulation now enables reporting plugins and screen output mimics versions < 2.1.4
27        - Ticket 199: Allow user to specify SSL library to be used by LW2
28        - Ticket 198: Add -Userdbs to run only user databases. 'all' loads all user databases and no standard. 'tests' or nothing only loads udb_tests instead of db_tests
29        - Fix date_disp for incorrect mday increment, thanks noop.0352.ja for notification
30        - Print web ports found in gnmap input files, thanks @mubix
312011-02-20 Nikto 2.1.4 release
32        - Tickets 148, 160, 188: XML CHANGES:
33                - Removed 'cyphers' from DTD (was never populated via the code)
34                - The 'niktoscan' element is now included (was in schema, but unused)
35                - 'niktoscan' new variables: scanstart, scanend, scanelapsed
36                - <statistics hoststotal="#TEMPL_NIKTO_HOSTS_TESTED" /> removed from templates (duplicate of hoststest)
37                - <!ATTLIST statistics hoststotal CDATA #IMPLIED> removed from DTD
38                - Removed duplicate <niktoscan> element from xml_summary.tpl
39                - Properly close <niktoscan>
40                - Incremented nxmlversion to 1.1
41        - Tickets 202, 203: Rewrote set_targets to not accidentally collapse targets, which fixed terminate signal issues
42        - Ticket 201: Rewritten & fixed authorization code work better and make fewer requests
43        - Ticket 195: Update interactive status counts if mutate options are used
44        - Ticket 194: Look for internal IPs in cookies
45        - Ticket 192: Relabel IDS evasion as 'encoding techniques'
46        - Ticket 186: Enable sleep for fractions of seconds
47        - Ticket 185: Make multiple index file output links in html reports
48        - Ticket 184: Fix -root option
49        - Ticket 181: Fix COOKIE set via nikto.conf. Also allow multiple cookies.
50        - Ticket 179: Update docs for -useproxy
51        - Ticket 178: Add -Interactive-off to disable interactivity
52        - Ticket 177: Enable http keep-alive
53        - Ticket 173: Skip current host with 'N' in interactive mode
54        - Ticket 169: Allow regular expressions in db_tests
55        - Ticket 155: -findonly is deprecated in favor of -Plugins "@@NONE" (-f will replicate this functionality)
56        - Ticket 82: Auth is now checked per realm, not per resource
57        - Fix parsing of nmap greppable output so that any port descr matching http is checked. Thanks Moses Hernandez & @mubix for
58                reporting & testing.
59        - Fix a potential div by zero error
60        - Fix a potential for false positives or negatives with version matches
61        - Various cleanups in nikto_report_xml.plugin and nikto_report_html.plugin
62        - Not all udb* files were loaded properly
63        - Server name not properly printed in update/submission output
64        - Created $mark->{'components'} to store server build items instead of @BUILDITEMS
65        - Variable consolidation & memory usage cleanup
66        - Move message on -root from notices to target host info (suggestion from YGN)
67        - Automatically escape invalid regexes in databases at run-time, so no dying
68        - Validate regex field syntax on -dbcheck
69        - Move -root option to %mark so it works on a per-host level if passed via URI
70        - Added nikto_ssl.plugin to check cert's CN vs hostname
71        - Add basic retry on error in nfetch()
72        - Change how db_404_strings are used by moving where they are checked--should reduce FP
73        - Fix missing url sent to rm_active_content during error mapping--should prevent many FPs
74        - Actually check for code-based nocache flag in cache_add and cache_fetch
75        - Make nikto_multiple_index.plugin only look at 200 responses
762010-09-06 Nikto 2.1.3 release
77        - Ticket 164: Error when proxy starts to give 502
78        - Ticket 165: Don't show incorrect # of items checked in -findonly
79        - Ticket 166: Allow interactive pause
80        - Ticket 167: Update manual
81        - Ticket 168: Fix scan not working behind proxy when domain can't resolve
82        - Ticket 170: Implemented MSF output
83        - Ticket 171: Allow proxy to be specified on command line
84        - Fix incorrect running of some plugins
85        - Interactive status report gives guess of time remaining
86        - Don't print duplicate findings (such as indexing)
87        - Minor standardization stuff
88        - Documentation updates
89        - Fixed broken cache
90        - Cleaned up status report code
91        - Version output now shows status of SSL and XMLRPC availability
922010-07-07 Nikto 2.1.2 release
93        - Ticket 8: Interactive scan status.
94        - Ticket 122: Cleanup db_404_strings to prevent over-matching.
95        - Ticket 122: Use db_404_strings as a higher priority.
96        - Ticket 125: fetch is dead, long live nfetch!
97        - Ticket 126: subdomain plugin tries to guess domain on unqualified hostname.
98        - Ticket 127: dav methods are treated specially and reported all at once.
99        - Ticket 129: Change references for config.txt to nikto.conf.
100        - Ticket 130: Added -D E to show HTTP errors, otherwise suppress.
101        - Ticket 132: Properly check for HTTP and HTTPS ports in cache.
102        - Ticket 133: Regular expression matching causes errors. Removed char_escape and some other
103                regexs in favor of the faster quotemeta(). Also set many regexs to non-capturing for speed.
104        - Ticket 134: Added documentation of -config to usage_short.
105        - Ticket 136: Moved set_scan_items to only run once, should speed things up with multiple targets.
106        - Ticket 137: Added -ask to override nikto.conf's UPDATES value (same options).
107        - Ticket 139: Partial fix: Moved URI error handling and reporting result to nfetch, rather than being in nikto_tests.
108        - Ticket 141: pre-compile RE in content_search to give some speed-up.
109        - Ticket 142: Enhancement to allow easier addition of hooks.
110        - Ticket 144: Cleaned up map_codes to use general rules, still needs some for redirection.
111        - Ticket 145: Added OSVDB 0 to orphan items in db_tests.
112        - Ticket 146: Paritial fix: with new "start" hook which is run at the start after target enumeration.
113        - Ticket 147: Grab HTTP information on the fly, deprecate get_banner.
114        - Ticket 150: Special characters in XML output.
115        - Ticket 152: HTTP Version set in nikto.conf over-ridden.
116        - Ticket 153: Properly check for HTTP and HTTPS ports in cache.
117        - Ticket 156: Update system couldn't update nikto_core.plugin.
118        - Ticket 163: Scan details not appearing in XML reports.
119        - Allow changing certain config settings during scans.
120        - Optimized rm_active_content() a little by shuffling code and reducing some mem copies/regexs. Needs more work.
121        - Update nikto.conf to switch tests to always have the (report:500) parameter.
122        - Updates to read known headers on the fly, rather than make requests for them.
123        - Fixed a bug with the order of parameters in hooks (broke parameters being passed to some plugins).
124        - Added the parameter "report" to tests plugin to report when completed x number of tests.
125        - Stop LibWhisker producing an error when talking HTTP to HTTPS during port_check.
126        - Merged apacheusers and apache_enum_users.
127        - Add facillity for a plugin to inform which options it can take.
128        - Added nbe output plugin which written by Frank Breedijk of the Seccubus project.
129        - Moved do_auth to a postfetch plugin.
130        - Removed dead code from fetch().
131        - Optimizations in nfetch(), nikto.pl, & elsewhere.
132        - Added support for prefetch and postfetch hooks.
133        - Moved content_search to a plugin.
134        - Some tuning around plugin execution.
135        - Updated user_enum_apache to use Plugins instead of mutate.
136        - Rewrote the macro expanding bit to make it more efficient.
137        - Mutate 1 now wrapped into nikto_tests and doesn't take up anywhere near the amount of memory!
138        - Starting to deprecate mutate by replacing with plugin options. -mutate 2 (passfiles) is now implemented within tests and uses less memory.
139        - Updated -check_updates to use nfetch instead of fetch.
140        - Updated -Plugins support.
141        - Add filename support to rm_active_content.
142        - Added basic support for -D s (scrub, removes some information from the log).
143        - Match plugin names case-insensitive.
144        - Warn if RFIURL is undefined.
1452010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
146        - Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
147        - Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
148        - Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
149        - Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
150        - Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
151        - 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
152        - Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
153        - Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
154        - Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
155        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
156        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
157        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
158        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
159        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
160        - Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
161        - Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
162        - Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
163        - Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
164        - Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
165        - Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
166        - Major bug fix for proxy usage
167        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
168        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
169        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
170        - Fix for multiple index files
1712009-12-21 nikto.pl
172        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
173        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
1742009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
175        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
1762009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
177        - Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
1782009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
179        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
1802009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
181        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
182        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
1832009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
184        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
185        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
1862009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
187        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
188        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
1892009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
190        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
191        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
1922009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
193        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
194        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
1952009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
196        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
197        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
198        - Tickets 80 and 85
1992009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
200        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
201        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
2022009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
203        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
204        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
205        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
206        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
207        - New item for ticket #75
2082009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
209        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
210        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
2112009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
212        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
213        - Added -mutate-options switch
2142009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
215        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
2162009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
217        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
218        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
219        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
220        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
2212009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
222        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
223        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
224        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
225        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
2262008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
227        - Added report phase to plugin runner
2282008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
229        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
2302008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
231        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
232        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
2332008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
234        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
235        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
236        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
2372008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
238        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
2392008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
240        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
2412008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
242        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
243        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
2442008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
245        - Fix for ticket #37
246        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
247        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
2482008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
249        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
250        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
251        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
252        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
2532008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
254        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
255        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
256        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
2572008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
258        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
259        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
2602008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
261        - Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
262        - Ticket 53
2632008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
264        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
2652008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
266        - New export of the manual from the docbook
267        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
2682008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
269        - Added various new versions
2702008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
271        - Fix for ticket #45
272        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
2732008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
274        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
275        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
2762008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
277        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
2782008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
279        - 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
280        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
281        - 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.
2822008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
283        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
284        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
2852008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
286        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
2872008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
288        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
2892008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
290        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
2912008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
292        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
293        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
2942008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
295        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
2962008-04-14 templates/htm*
297        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
2982008-04-11 nikto.pl
299        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
300        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
3012008-04-11 db_outdated
302        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
30301.06.2008 2.02
304        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
305        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
306        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
307        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
308        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
309        - Updated documentation
31001.02.2008 nikto_core
311        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
31212.30.2007 db_servers
313        - Removed as it is not used
31412.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
315        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
31612.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
317        - Added OSVDB ID
31812.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
319        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
32011.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
321        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
322        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
323        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
324        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
325        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
326        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
327        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
328        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
329        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
33011.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
331         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
33211.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
333         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
334         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
335         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
336         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
337         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
338         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
339         - All new HTML report
340         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
341         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
342         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
343         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
344         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
345         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
346         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
347         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
348         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
349         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
350         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
351         - Removed -generic
352         - Removed extraneous global vars
353         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
354         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
355         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
356         - Added -Single single request mode
357         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
358         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
359         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
360         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
361         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
362         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
363         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
364         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
365         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
366         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
367         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
368         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
369         - Send all errors to STDERR
370         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
371         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
372         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
373         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
374         - ... gobs more
37502.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
376        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
377        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
378        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
379        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
380        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
381        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
38212.17.2003
383        nikto_core.plugin 1.20
384         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
38510.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
386        nikto_core.plugin 1.19
387         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
388         - Removed unecessary counters
389         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
390         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
391         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
392         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
393         - 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.
394         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
395        nikto.pl        1.12
396         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
397        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
398         - Added DAAP header check
39910.02.2003
400        nikto_core.plugin 1.18
401         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
40210.01.2003
403        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
404         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
405
40609.30.2003
407        nikto_core.plugin 1.17
408         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
409         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
410        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
411         - Stripping () from version strings
41209.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
413        nikto_core.plugin 1.16
414         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
415         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
416         - 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.
417         - 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.
418           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
419         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
420         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
421         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
422         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
423         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
424         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
425         - Cleaned up port scan code
426         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
427        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
428         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
429    LW.pm - 1.8
430         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
431    nikto.pl - 1.10
432         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
433         - 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.
434         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
43508.18.2003
436        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
437         - Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
43807.22.2003
439        nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
440         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
441        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
442         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
443        nikto_core.plugin 1.14
444         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
445         - Removed a stray debug print
44607.03.2003
447         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
44806.29.2003
449        nikto_core.plugin 1.13
450         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
451        nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
452         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
45306.29.2003
454        nikto_core.plugin 1.12
455         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
45606.29.2003
457        nikto_core.plugin 1.11
458         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
45906.19.2003
460        nikto_core.plugin 1.10
461         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
462         - minor speedups
46306.17.2003
464        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
465         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
466         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
467        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
468         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
469         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
47006.16.2003
471        nikto_core.plugin 1.09
472         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
473         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
474         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
475         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
47606.12.2003
477        nikto_core.plugin 1.08
478         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
479         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
48005.30.2003
481        nikto_core.plugin 1.07
482         - Bugfix:
48305.30.2003
484        nikto_core.plugin 1.06
485         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
486         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
487         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
48805.28.2003
489        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
490         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
49105.27.2003
492        Nikto 1.30 release
493    General changes
494          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
495          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
496          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
497          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
498          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
499            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
500          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
501          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
502          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
503          - all new save file routines
504          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
505          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
506          - added support for NTLM authentication
507          - added cgiwrap plugin
508        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
509        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
510        - Added UA for update agents
511        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
512        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
513        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
514        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
515        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
516        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
517        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
518        - added
519        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
520        - change for using %CLI
521        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
522        - change for using %CLI
523        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
524        - change for using %CLI
525        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
526        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
527        - minor changes for multi-host support
528        plugins_order.txt       1.03
529        - removed nikto_google.plugin
53002.23.2003     
531        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
532        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
533        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
534        - Added to distro
535        realms.db 1.00
536        - Added to distro
537        plugins_order.txt       1.02
538        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
53901.22.2003
540        nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03   
541        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
54201.22.2003
543        nikto_core.plugin 1.03 
544        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
54501.17.2003
546        nikto_core.plugin 1.02 
547        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
54801.02.2003
549        nikto_core.plugin 1.01 
550        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
55101.01.2003
552        Nikto 1.23
553        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
554        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
555        - added -cookies option
556        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
557        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
558        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
559        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
560        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
561        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
562        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
563        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
564        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
565        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
566        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
567        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
568        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
569        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
57008.21.2002
571        Nikto 1.21     
572        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
573        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
57408.12.2002
575        Nikto 1.20
576        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
57708.11.2002
578        Nikto 1.20     
579        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
580        - Added password file mutate plugin
581        - Added better error messages if problems arise
582        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
583        - Added -useproxy CLI
584        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
585        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
586        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
587        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
588        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
58905.25.2002     
590        Nikto 1.100     
591        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
592        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
593        - added robots.txt plugin
594        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
59504.23.2002     
596        Nikto 1.10BETA_3       
597        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
598        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
599        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
600        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
601        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
602        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
60303.31.2002
604        Nikto 1.10BETA_2       
605        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
606        - made proxy_check run only once per session
607        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
60803.23.2002     
609        Nikto 1.10BETA_1
610        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
611        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
612        - usage of LW 1.2
613        - countless "under the hood" type things
614        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
615        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
616        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
617        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
618        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
619        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
620        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
621        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
622        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
623        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
624        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
625        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
626        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
627        - 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.
628        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
62901.17.2002
630        Nikto 1.018
631        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
632        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
63301.12.2002     
634        Nikto 1.017
635        - 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).
63601.10.2002
637        Nikto 1.016
638        - Add dump_*hash functions
639        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
640        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
641        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
642        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
64301.08.2002
644        Nikto 1.015
645        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
646        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
64701.07.2002     
648        Nikto 1.014
649        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
650        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
65101.06.2002
652        Nikto 1.013     
653        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
654        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
65501.03.2002
656        Nikto 1.012
657        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
658        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
659        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
660        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
661        - in case they are needed in the future.
662        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
663        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
664        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
66501.02.2002
666        Nikto 1.011
667        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
668        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
669        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
670        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
67112.31.2001
672        Nikto 1.01
673        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
674        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
675        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
676        - Added -timeout option
67712.27.2001     
678        Nikto 1.00
679        - Finalized beta version for release
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