Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance Metadata Enumeration (Unix)

info Nessus Plugin ID 90191

Synopsis

The remote host is an AWS EC2 instance for which metadata could be retrieved.

Description

The remote host appears to be an Amazon Machine Image. Nessus was able to use the metadata API to collect information about the system.

See Also

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 90191

File Name: enumerate_aws_ami_nix.nasl

Version: 1.48

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: General

Published: 3/25/2016

Updated: 7/24/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: x-cpe:/o:amazon:ec2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled