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Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stack over last 6 months
- meesterdude 7y agoi don't need to provide my (potentially vulnerable) production URL to whoever-you-might-be in order to identify the last 6 months of vulnerabilities - I can just google for that. Submitting your site to this is just asking for trouble.
- bogwog 7y agoThis just seems like a mailing list for CVE alerts for popular software. If you put in HN, it'll say that it failed to detect the stack, and then ask you to choose your software and then enter your email to receive alerts. It's kind of clever marketing, giving people a sense that they're going to get a security audit in exchange for an email address.
- paulfurley 7y agoThe first URL I entered (coop.co.uk) was actually pretty awesome, it detected Varnish and showed a critical CVE from last week. That’s cool. I hope that if you subscribe, the site regularly rescans your stack and realised if it’s changed. Otherwise it’s just a mailing list subscription that becomes out of date and therefore not useful.
- landr0id 7y agoAnyone can (and people are) just scan the internet for hosts on port 80/443 and unless your site uses virtual hosts and has no HTTPS certificates issued to one of your domains, it's going to be discovered and probed exactly like this site does anyways. The difference is real adversaries are doing it without you knowing.
- paulfurley 7y agoI’d suggest that running a vulnerable production service is asking for trouble! My web logs are full of automated scanners. Once when I ran a vulnerable version of Wordpress it got discovered and pwned very quickly. No need to enter the URL in any website ;)
- adtac 7y agoThis is the textbook definition of security by obscurity.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoThen somebody else is going to do it for you.
- mellosouls 7y agoThis is a nice addendum to the "Let Us Identify Your Stack" style web services tho I guess some of them might already provide this. It does have the somewhat negative effect of making potentially vulnerable websites more visible to lower order hackers (I'm assuming more proficient ones have automated discovery tools like this anyway).
- louisstow 7y agoIt's always a possibility but this tool doesn't look for version numbers so it's then more time consuming to narrow down if it's vulnerable to something.
- dahfizz 7y agoThere are browser extensions that do this same thing. It's pretty trivial to do.
- oriettaxx 7y agohttps://www.whatruns.com/ https://www.whatruns.com/ not so precise must say
- GiulioS 7y agoCreator here. We built this using Wappalyzer to detect the software given a URL and match it against our database of CVEs and thought it might be a fun little tool.
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- fnigi 7y agoIs this released open-source ?
- r1ch 7y agoLooks like it's overloaded - HTTP/502 on the API here.
- louisstow 7y agoThanks. Increased the thread size so hopefully that should save it from all these hugs.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoFinally, a place that can gather IP addresses and associate them to specific security products to have them hacked later. Just what I've been waiting for.
- louisstow 7y agoWe don't store anyones IP address and the results are only in memory cached.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoIt's not you, but the implicit idea of trust. How are three people I know nothing about going to give me better results than a known name? Best of luck establishing yourselves though.
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoDon't shoot the messenger.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoOr...interrogate the messenger when he tells you something that not even he is supposed to know.
- jdnenej 7y agoWhy do you think this is any easier than just scraping urls off the internet
- Quekid5 7y agoI'm always surprised by the mindset of the person you're replying to. I learned a few years ago from some DEFCON video[0] that someone had figured out a way to do a (basic) port scan of the whole internet in ~1 day (or something like that). Thing is... it really shouldn't have been that surprising. Although network latency isn't getting that much better year by year (c = c), the amount of data you can process in bulk, correlate, etc. is ever-increasing. [0] At least, I think that was the conference.
- mrlucax 7y agoIs there an open source alternative that could be self-hosted and configured to run automated and periodical checks?
- dahfizz 7y agoMetasploit? You don't even need to host it (why are we so obsessed with making everything a website?)
- kortilla 7y agoThe key part is automation, not a website. Make it part of your ci/cd pipeline.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoMetasploit isn't the best choice for webapps, you probably want nikto or similar. Here's the owasp list: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Vulnerability_Scanning_Tools https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Vulnerability_Scann...
- smcleod 7y agoWhile not a web or automated option - if you want to run a quick crawl and scan on your apps you could try OWASP ZAP, it also has quite a few handy plugins - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Proje...
- swiley 7y agoI pointed it at my lighttpd server and all I got was "cannot detect software" or so.
- rubbingalcohol 7y agoyep that's what I got. Tried on a couple of my web apps.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoIt’s a pretty poor implementation that is basically matching on the lowest common denominator, by platform rather than by library or framework. An ASP.NET website is fully independent of a WCF vulnerability. They can coexist but definitely don’t have to. Additional suggestion: many times the home page is a link to many different technologies. Crawl all first-level directory indices to see different techs. E.g. we have a xenforo-powered forum at /forums, a WordPress blog at /blog, a custom ASP.NET CMS at /store, a .NET Core web app at /foo, etc. The domain index for most companies past a certain age/size not dedicated solely to a single app effectively turns into a static html page.
- wilsonthewhale 7y agoMy static site running on OpenBSD 6.5 httpd gets identified as Apache ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- AndyMcConachie 7y agoSame here. It also thinks I'm running PGP 7.1.31 when in fact I'm running 7.1.32.
- KrishnaAnaril 7y agoMy Angular site is getting detected as Ruby on Rails :)
- jamessteel 7y agoWasn’t able to detect what software my site use, my server name was disabled.
- babuskov 7y agoI tried entering a bunch of major websites. Looks like ibm.com is full of holes that need patching.