URL Vulnerability Checker

This is a simple Python script for checking directory traversal vulnerabilities in URLs. The script attempts to access the "/etc/passwd" file by using a specified number of "../" iterations.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/shopsaver/etc-passwd-finder/

cd etc-passwd-finder

pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 etc-passwd-finder.py -help

1. Checking a single URL:

python3 etc-passwd-finder.py --single http://example.com --iterations 20

2. Checking a urls file :

python3 etc-passwd-finder.py --file urls.txt --iterations 20

Generate URLs using waybackurls and check for etc/passwd file in Urls:

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Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Requests library (pip install requests)
• argparse library (pip install argparse)

Command-line Arguments

• --file: Specifies a file containing multiple URLs to check.
• --single: Specifies a single URL to check.
• --iterations: Number of "../" iterations for the directory traversal payload (default is 5).
• --hide: If provided, it hides non-200 responses.
• --help: If provided, it prints all available options.