Function do_scan

lib/scanner/nmap.py:118–150

perform the nmap scan

(host, nmap_path, ports=None, arguments=None)

def do_scan(host, nmap_path, ports=None, arguments=None):
    """
    perform the nmap scan
    """
    if arguments is None:
        arguments = "-sV"
    launch_arguments = [
        nmap_path, '-oX', '-', host,
        '-p ' + ports if ports is not None else "",
    ] + arguments
    to_launch = []
    for item in launch_arguments:
        if not item == "":
            to_launch.append(item)
    lib.output.info("launching nmap scan against {} ({})".format(host, " ".join(to_launch)))
    process = subprocess.Popen(
        launch_arguments, bufsize=10000, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
    )
    output, error = process.communicate()
    output_data = bytes.decode(output)
    nmap_error = bytes.decode(error)
    nmap_error_tracestack = []
    nmap_warn_tracestack = []
    if len(nmap_error) > 0:
        for line in nmap_error.split(os.linesep):
            if len(line) != 0:
                if lib.settings.NMAP_ERROR_REGEX_WARNING.search(line) is not None:
                    nmap_warn_tracestack.append(line + os.linesep)
                else:
                    nmap_error_tracestack.append(line + os.linesep)
    write_data(host, output_data, is_xml=True)
    return output_data, "".join(nmap_warn_tracestack), "".join(nmap_error_tracestack)


def parse_xml_output(output, warnings, error):