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Web-metadata
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Collection of HTTP and HTML metadata information in order to categorize its relevance as a sign of possible security weakness or signs of hardening in any website. The final goal is to raise web security awareness (assessing favourably the signs of hardening and assessing negatively the signs of weakness) with an overall interpretation of this information from any website.
| Weakness signs | Hardening signs |
|---|---|
| MetaGenerator[Joomla! 1.5 | X-Frame-Options[SAMEORIGIN |
| Microsoft-IIS/6.0 | X-XSS-Protection |
| Apache/2.2.22(Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 | UncommonHeaders[x-varnish |
This information collected plus more input from other OWASP projects as Top 10 2013-Top 10, could serve as the basis for WEB fingerprinting. A proof of concept tool is available in as a web service.
| Server HTTP header | Description | More information |
| Apache/X.X | Web server using Apache technology | Technology lider in Internet |
| Microsoft-IIS/X | Web server using Microsoft IIS technology | How to modify this header |
| PWS | Small Microsoft Web server for old Windows versions | Microsoft Personal Web Server |
| nginx/X.X | Russian web server and reverse proxy | Official site |
| lighttpd/X.X | Web server optimized for speed-critical environments | Official site |
| OpenCms/X.X | Open source content management system written in Java | Official site |
| Netscape-Enterprise/X.X | Web server using old Netscape technology | Current server family |
| Sun-ONE-Web-Server/X | Web server using iPlanet web server technology | Current server family |
| Oracle-Application-Server-Xx | Web server using Oracle applications server | Official site |
| Lotus-Domino | Web server using IBM Lotus Domino technology | Official site |
| Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/X | Web server using Oracle iPlanet technology | Official site |
| Oracle-iPlanet-Web-Server/7.0 | Web server using Oracle iPlanet technology | iPlanet Web server |
| IBM_HTTP_Server/X.X | Web server using IBM technology (Apache based) | How to hide version |
| LiteSpeed/X.X | Web server using LiteSpeed technology (Apache based) | How to hide version |
| Alterian-CME/X.X | Web server using SDL ACM | SDL acquires Alterian |
| Tengine | Web server using Tengine technology (nginx based) | Need more information |
| eZ Publish | Web server using EZ technology | Open Source CMS |
| GSE | Web server using Google infrastructure (blogger) | Need more information |
| gws | Web server using Google infrastructure (search pages) | Need more information |
| sffe | Web server using Google infrastructure (static files) | Need more information |
| tfe | Web server using Twitter infrastructure | Need more information |
| YTS | Web server using Yahoo! infrastructure | Need more information |
| cloudflare-nginx | Web server using CloudFlare infrastructure | Need more information |
| Powered-by HTTP header | Description | More information |
| PHP/x.x | Web server using PHP technology | How to remove header |
| ASP.NET | Web server using Microsoft ASP technology | Custom headers |
| Servlet/X.X JSP/X.X | Web server using Tomcat application server | Header implementation |
| Plesklin | Web server using Parallels technology | How to disable header |
| (mod_rails/mod_rack) | Web server using Ruby on Rails technology | Phusion Passenger |
| ARR/X.X | Web server using IIS with request routing technology | More header information |
| JSF/2.0 | Web server using JavaServer Faces technology | Need more info |
| HTML metadata | Description | More information |
| moodle | Web server using Moodle technology | Vulnerabilities stats |
| x-cache-hits,x-timer,x-served-by, x-varnish, x-varnish-cache | Web server using Varnish cache technology | How to modify this header |
| MetaGenerator[Sitefinity | Web server using SiteFinity technology | Security based on ASP.NET model |
| HTTPServer[BigIP / Cookies[BIGip | Web server using F5 technology | Need more info |
| x-drupal-cache | Web server using Drupal technology | Vulnerabilities stats |
| Cookies[PHPSESSID | Web server using PHP technology | Session cookie |
| Cookies[JSESSIONID | Web server using JSP technology | Session cookie |
| Cookies[ASPSESSION | Web server using ASP technology | See ASP.NET in the Powered-by HTTP header section |
| Cookies[fe_typo_user | Web server using TYPO3 technology | Ref |
| x-server-name | Web server using Websphere technology | node HTTP headers |
| access-control-allow-origin, access-control-allow-headers | Web server using HTTP access control (CORS) | Need more info |
| MetaGenerator[Square One, Meta-Author[Jeremy | Web server using Square One CMS (light version of Joomla) | Looks like is discontinued |
| MetaGenerator[LFC | Web server using LFS technology | CMS based on Python, Django and jQuery |
