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VMWare ESX/ESXi Fingerprint Scanner

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module accesses the web API interfaces for VMware ESX/ESXi servers and attempts to identify version information for that server.

Author(s)

  • theLightCosine <theLightCosine@metasploit.com>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/scanner/vmware/esx_fingerprint
msf auxiliary(esx_fingerprint) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(esx_fingerprint) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(esx_fingerprint) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(esx_fingerprint) > run 

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