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RMI Registry Detection

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Detects an RMI registry

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

An RMI registry is listening on the remote host.

Description :

The remote host is running an RMI registry, which acts as a bootstrap
naming service for registering and retrieving remote objects with
simple names in the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) system.

See also :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmiTOC.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmi-protocol3.html

Network Security Threat Level:

None

Networks Security ID:

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