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Author Nessus Oracle Password scan plugin
jansen.greg@gmail.com

2005-05-27, 11:23 am

I'm running vulnerability scans on Oracle servers using Nessus.
However, there is no plugin to scan for default or easy to guess
passwords. Has anyone seen a Nessus plugin that would allow this, or
have information on writing one that would do the trick?

DA Morgan

2005-05-27, 1:23 pm

jansen.greg@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running vulnerability scans on Oracle servers using Nessus.
> However, there is no plugin to scan for default or easy to guess
> passwords. Has anyone seen a Nessus plugin that would allow this, or
> have information on writing one that would do the trick?


Haven't heard of such a thing but the simple solution is to expire
all passwords after activating a modified version of Oracle's
verify_function in the user profile.

If you modify the function to look at a table containing a dictionary
of common words you can pretty much rest assured the vulnerability
will be dealt with.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan@x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Mark Bole

2005-05-27, 1:23 pm

jansen.greg@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm running vulnerability scans on Oracle servers using Nessus.
> However, there is no plugin to scan for default or easy to guess
> passwords. Has anyone seen a Nessus plugin that would allow this, or
> have information on writing one that would do the trick?
>


Don't know anything about Nessus plugins, but here's a good start on the
general problem:

http://www.petefinnigan.com/default...
cker.htm


-Mark Bole



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