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HMAP

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Fingerprints the web server

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

This script tries to identify the HTTP Server type and version by
sending more or less incorrect requests.

A possible hacker may use this to identify the kind of the remote web server
and gain further knowledge about this host.

Suggestions for defense against fingerprinting are presented in
http://acsac.org/2002/abstracts/96.html

See also : http://ujeni.murkyroc.com/hmap/
http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/papers/hmap-thesis.pdf

Network Security Threat Level: Low

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Michel Arboi - HMAP research by Dustin Lee

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