autheticated scan requires usually supported platform. at this moment only
major linux distributions are supported.

Eero

5.3.2017 1.33 ip. "Reindl Harald" <[email protected]> kirjoitti:

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>
> Am 05.03.2017 um 11:58 schrieb Vito Logrillo:
>
>> Hi All,
>> sorry for my noob question, but i'm trying to understand how security
>> scans work. My target is a custom linux distribution on an IoT system: i
>> can set-up an SSH connection but i can't download any package in a
>> simple way.
>> 1. To perform an authenticated scan, an agent or a software should be
>> downloaded on the target machine? Or a shell script?
>> 2. Which are the benefits? It can check all installed packages? Even if
>> they are not active?
>>
>
> the benefit is that it can also check services where the ports are not
> reachable from the network
>
> depending on what service and the complete setup a vunerability on
> whatever is running can become very quickly a remote exploit - simple
> example: you allow users to upload php-scripts on your webserver - from
> that moment on your services on 127.0.0.1 are no longer isloated until you
> disable a lot of php functionality
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