System Context Reconnaissance
system-context-recon is a info severity check in the
recon category, written in shell.
Its source is templates/recon/system/system-context-recon.sh in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Gathers system context for scan correlation using native UNIX tools
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | system-context-recon |
| Severity | info |
| Language | shell |
| Category | recon |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 90 |
| CVSS | N/A |
| Weakness | N/A |
| Tags | recon, system, context, shell, unix |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
References
Section titled “References”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.
N/A
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info system-context-reconThe 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.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- recon is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.