it just logs server via ssh and runs local commands.

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Eero

2017-03-05 17:06 GMT+02:00 Vito Logrillo <[email protected]>:

> Thanks for your reply,
> but i'm trying to figure out how an authenticated scan works: Should i
> download and install a software? Or a bash script?Or something else?
> Thanks
>
> 2017-03-05 12:42 GMT+01:00 Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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