Erlang Port Mapper Daemon Detection

info Nessus Plugin ID 62351

Synopsis

A port mapping service is listening on the remote host.

Description

The remote host is running Erlang Port Mapper Daemon, which acts as a name server on all hosts involved in distributed Erlang computations.

See Also

http://erlang.org/doc/man/epmd.html

http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_dist_protocol.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 62351

File Name: epmd_detect.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: remote

Published: 9/27/2012

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Asset Inventory: true

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: x-cpe:/a:erlang:epmd