Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > But what (besides web crawling) is the (legal) purpose of that? And why
> > does it need a word list?
>
> Presumably it is a useful tool as part of a security professional's
> penetration testing toolbox?
Testing for these sorts of issues is almost certainly best done from
the other side by examining configurations of "hidden but not password
protected directories" instead of trying to brute force them with
results limited by your wordlist and patience.
That said, it's not like there's anything in this piece of software
that is more than generating a set of urls and shoving them at HEAD or
curl or similar and trapping the results, so it seems kind of trivial
and ripe for an inclusion in a larger collection of penetration
testing tools unless it has a particular novel method of generating a
wordlist.
It'd also be best if this package didn't refer to invented terminology
like "forced browsing" and instead said what it actually does (return
the subset of HEAD requests that return 200 from a generated
wordlist).
Don Armstrong
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