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HTTP Service Responding

http-service-responding is a info severity check in the network category, written in yaml. Its source is templates/network/http/http-service-responding.yaml in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects whether an HTTP service responds on the target. Useful to confirm HTTP exposure on a given port.

Field Value
Id http-service-responding
Severity info
Language yaml
Category network
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version not recorded
Confidence not recorded
CVSS not recorded
Weakness not recorded
Tags network, http, recon
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

The file declares http, remediation as well. Those are not tabled above; read the source for what they carry.

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info http-service-responding

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.