Guillaume,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Guillaume Rousse
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I tried to use w3af on a web application for which I do have admin
> credentials. I didn't found any way to specificy application-managed
> credentials (by opposition to http authentication), so I tried two
> different strategies:
>
> 1) using spiderman to authenticate manually, and let webspider proceed
> thereafter
> 2) using brute force brute force plugin with a credentials file
> containing only one login/password (admin)
>
> But neither did work.
>
> For the the first method, the proxy seems to capture the cookie session,
> but then fails to return the response to the browser correctly:
>
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:16:21 CEST]
> https://adt-lea.inria.fr:443/lea/j_spring_security_check | Method: POST
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:16:21 CEST] The remote web application sent the
> following cookie: "JSESSIONID=9251223F16593FF313B8EBCA357B5A88;
> Path=/lea; Secure".
> w3af will use it during the rest of the process in order to maintain the
> session.
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:16:21 CEST] Traceback for this error: Traceback
> (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/w3af/core/controllers/daemons/proxy.py", line 425,
> in do_CONNECT
>     httpsServer.process_request(conWrap, self.client_address)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 311, in process_request
>     self.shutdown_request(request)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 459, in
> shutdown_request
>     request.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
> TypeError: shutdown() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)
>
> I have to terminate spiderman session, to let webspider plugin continue,
> but this one seems unable to reach any other page beyond this point, and
> only find the links available from the login page.
>
> For the second method, the brute force plugin is activated, but doesn't
> advertise any success:
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:24:23 CEST] Found a form login. The action of the
> form is: "https://adt-lea.inria.fr/lea/j_spring_security_check";.
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:24:23 CEST] The username field to be used is:
> "j_username".
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:24:23 CEST] The password field to be used is:
> "j_password".
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:24:23 CEST] Starting form authentication
> bruteforce on URL: "https://adt-lea.inria.fr/lea/j_spring_security_check";.
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:24:25 CEST] Finished bruteforcing
> "https://adt-lea.inria.fr/lea/j_spring_security_check";.
>
> It's difficult to tell if authentication succeeded from this output:
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:25:07 CEST] The URL:
> "https://adt-lea.inria.fr/lea/j_spring_security_check"; sent these cookies:
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:25:07 CEST] -
> JSESSIONID=172C2BA5B54B223D17F4B4F54F8AA339; Path=/lea; Secure
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:25:07 CEST] The URL: "https://adt-lea.inria.fr/";
> sent these cookies:
> [mar. 23 août 2011 16:25:07 CEST] -
> JSESSIONID=BF66808767EC617C1B33ACBDC9FC8F9A; Path=/lea; Secure
>
> Anyway, the web spider doesn't find any additional URLs.

Try using Python2.6, we do not support 2.7 yet.

> --
> BOFH excuse #197:
>
> I'm sorry a pentium won't do, you need an SGI to connect with us.
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