2010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
- Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
- Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
- Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
- Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
- Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
- 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
- Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
- Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
- Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
- Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
- Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
- Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
- Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
- Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
- Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
- Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
- Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
- Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
- Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
- Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
- Major bug fix for proxy usage
- Don't report p3p header as unusual
- Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
- Various changes to aid future multi-threading
- Fix for multiple index files
2009-12-21 nikto.pl
- Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
- Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
2009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
- Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
2009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
- Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
2009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
- Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
2009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
- Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
- New plugin added to identify embedded devices
2009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
- New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
- Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
2009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
- Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
- Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
2009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
- Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
- Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
2009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
- Added check for multiple index files for request #16
- Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
2009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
- Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
- Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
- Tickets 80 and 85
2009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
- Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
- Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
2009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
- Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
- Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
- Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
- Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
- New item for ticket #75
2009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
- Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
- couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
2009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
- Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
- Added -mutate-options switch
2009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
- Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
2009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
- Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
- Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
- Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
- Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
2009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
- Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
- Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
- Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
2008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
- Added report phase to plugin runner
2008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
- Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
2008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
- Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
- Now supports NTLM authentication.
2008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
- Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
- Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
- Added tests to identify Ampache.
2008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
- Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
2008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
- Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
2008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
- Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
- Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
2008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
- Fix for ticket #37
- Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
- Better handling of extra headers within fetch
2008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
- Update server messages to dynamic database format
- Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
- Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
- Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
2008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
- Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
- Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
- Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
2008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
- Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
- Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
2008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
- Ticket 53
2008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
- Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
2008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
- New export of the manual from the docbook
- Updated versions in nikto.pl
2008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
- Added various new versions
2008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
- Fix for ticket #45
- Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
2008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
- Changes to look at non-standard headers
- Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
2008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
- Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
2008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- 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
- Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
- 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.
2008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
- Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
2008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
- Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
2008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
- Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
2008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
- Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
2008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
- Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
2008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
- Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
2008-04-14 templates/htm*
- Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
2008-04-11 nikto.pl
- Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
- Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
2008-04-11 db_outdated
- Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
01.06.2008 2.02
- Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
- HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
- Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
- Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
- Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
- Updated documentation
01.02.2008 nikto_core
- Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
12.30.2007 db_servers
- Removed as it is not used
12.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
- Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
12.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
- Added OSVDB ID
12.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
- Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
11.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
- Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
- Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
- Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
- Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
- Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
- Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
- Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
- Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
- Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
11.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
- Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
11.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
- Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
- Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
- Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
- Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
- Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
- Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
- All new HTML report
- Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
- Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
- Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
- Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
- Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
- Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
- Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
- Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
- Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
- Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
- Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
- Removed -generic
- Removed extraneous global vars
- Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
- Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
- Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
- Added -Single single request mode
- Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
- Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
- Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
- Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
- Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
- Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
- Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
- Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
- Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
- Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
- Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
- Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
- Send all errors to STDERR
- Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
- fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
- All other plugins updated for v2 changes
- Added favicon.ico hash checking
- ... gobs more
02.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
- Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
- Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
- Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
- Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
- Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
- Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
12.17.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.20
- Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
10.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
nikto_core.plugin 1.19
- Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
- Removed unecessary counters
- Replaced some slow foreach counters
- Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
- Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
- Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
- 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.
- Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
nikto.pl 1.12
- Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
nikto_headers.plugin 1.08
- Added DAAP header check
10.02.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.18
- Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
10.01.2003
nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
- Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
09.30.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.17
- Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
- Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
nikto_outdated.plugin 1.11
- Stripping () from version strings
09.24.2003 Nikto 1.31 release
nikto_core.plugin 1.16
- Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
- Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
- 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.
- 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.
*ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
- Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
- Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
- Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
- Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
- Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
- Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
- Cleaned up port scan code
- Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
- Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
LW.pm - 1.8
- Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
nikto.pl - 1.10
- Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
- 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.
- Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
08.18.2003
nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
- Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
07.22.2003
nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
- Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.04
- Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it. Added SEARCH message.
nikto_core.plugin 1.14
- Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
- Removed a stray debug print
07.03.2003
- Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
06.29.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.13
- changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level.. thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
- fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
06.29.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.12
- changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
06.29.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.11
- bug fix for scanning through proxies
06.19.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.10
- added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
- minor speedups
06.17.2003
nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin 1.02
- Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
- Major rewrite for speed improvements
nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.01
- Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
- Major rewrite for speed improvements
06.16.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.09
- dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
- dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
- update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
- Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
06.12.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.08
- Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
- Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
05.30.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.07
- Bugfix:
05.30.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.06
- Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
- Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
- Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
05.28.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.05
- Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
05.27.2003
Nikto 1.30 release
General changes
- removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
- major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
- killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
- added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
- added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
- added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
- specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl. best that can be done for now.
- added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
- all new save file routines
- unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
- removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
- added support for NTLM authentication
- added cgiwrap plugin
nikto_core.plugin 1.05
- Many updates to support multiple host scans
- Added UA for update agents
- Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
- Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
- Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
- Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
- Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
- Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
- added
nikto_mutate.plugin 1.05
- change for using %CLI
nikto_passfiles.plugin 1.01
- change for using %CLI
nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin 1.01
- change for using %CLI
- renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
nikto_msgs.plugin 1.03
- minor changes for multi-host support
plugins_order.txt 1.03
- removed nikto_google.plugin
02.23.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.04
- Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
- Added to distro
realms.db 1.00
- Added to distro
plugins_order.txt 1.02
- Added nikto_realms.plugin
01.22.2003
nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03
- standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
01.22.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.03
- fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
01.17.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.02
- fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
01.02.2003
nikto_core.plugin 1.01
- fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
01.01.2003
Nikto 1.23
- added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
- added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
- added -cookies option
- enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
- started using the LW 1.6 libraries
- fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
- removed usage from saved output (too long)
- remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
- moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
- got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
- added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
- made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
- added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
- added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
- many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
- fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
- new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
08.21.2002
Nikto 1.21
- Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
- Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
08.12.2002
Nikto 1.20
- Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
08.11.2002
Nikto 1.20
- Moved all mutate options to plugins
- Added password file mutate plugin
- Added better error messages if problems arise
- Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
- Added -useproxy CLI
- Printing SSL certs the server accepts
- Fixed port sorting if -f is used
- Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
- Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
- Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
05.25.2002
Nikto 1.100
- stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found
- added Apache user enumeration plugin
- added robots.txt plugin
- set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
04.23.2002
Nikto 1.10BETA_3
- fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
- prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
- fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
- updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
- fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
- added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
03.31.2002
Nikto 1.10BETA_2
- fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
- made proxy_check run only once per session
- removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
03.23.2002
Nikto 1.10BETA_1
- renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
- allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
- usage of LW 1.2
- countless "under the hood" type things
- lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
- compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
- created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
- added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
- enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
- change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
- added plugin to check HTTP methods
- created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
- added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
- added PLUGINDIR config variable
- added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
- added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
- added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
- 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.
- implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
01.17.2002
Nikto 1.018
- Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
- Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
01.12.2002
Nikto 1.017
- 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).
01.10.2002
Nikto 1.016
- Add dump_*hash functions
- Added pause (-x) in scan loop
- Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
- Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
- Fixed http vs. https links in output files
01.08.2002
Nikto 1.015
- Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
- Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
01.07.2002
Nikto 1.014
- Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
- Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
01.06.2002
Nikto 1.013
- Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
- Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
01.03.2002
Nikto 1.012
- Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
- Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
- Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
- Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
- in case they are needed in the future.
- Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
- Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
- Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
01.02.2002
Nikto 1.011
- Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
- Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
- Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
- Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
12.31.2001
Nikto 1.01
- Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
- Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
- Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
- Added -timeout option
12.27.2001
Nikto 1.00
- Finalized beta version for release
