cswe.org security report

Certificate, security headers, email authentication, DNS, registration, and exposed hosts — from public sources.

59risk

Elevated

Several issues worth triaging this week.

1Critical

0High

1Medium

2Low

2Info

Collected 5 hours ago10.3sfrom cache

Headers—

unavailable

Certificate Transparency22
DNS resolution27
Network ownership0
CDN / WAF detection0
Exposed ports & CVEs67
Registration
DNS posture2
Email authentication2
Certificate
Security headers
Archived URLs
Analysis6

noteFound 22 hostnames; this runtime allows 50 outbound requests per scan, so the 21 most likely to matter were resolved.
noteFound 18 addresses; enriching the first 12.
noteCertificate inspection is unavailable in this runtime.
noteNetwork ownership lookup is unavailable in this runtime; ASN and org are omitted.
noteCDN/WAF detection is unavailable in this runtime.
noteSecurity headers did not complete (Too many subrequests by single Worker invocation. To configure this limit, refer to https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/#limits). Results below are partial.
note5 hosts were identified as CDN/edge infrastructure from ASN ownership rather than a cdncheck fingerprint.

Shodan matched these CVEs against the service banners it saw on 104.21.22.249 (www.cswe.org), which advertise php 5.6.40. These are version-fingerprint matches, not confirmed exploits: a distribution may have back-ported the fix while leaving the banner unchanged. Severity reflects the volume of known issues associated with this host, not a CVSS score. CVE-2024-25117 CVE-2024-3566 CVE-2022-31629 CVE-2022-31628 CVE-2022-4900 CVE-2020-11579 CVE-2019-9641 CVE-2019-9639 CVE-2019-9638 CVE-2019-9637 CVE-2018-19396 CVE-2018-19395 CVE-2017-8923 CVE-2017-7963 CVE-2017-7272 ...and 3 more
What to do
Confirm the running versions on 104.21.22.249 and compare them against the current security release for each package before treating any single CVE as live.
CVE-2024-25117 ↗CVE-2024-3566 ↗CVE-2022-31629 ↗CVE-2022-31628 ↗CVE-2022-4900 ↗
asset: 104.21.22.249
104.21.22.249 (www.cswe.org) reports php 5.6.40. Publishing precise versions lets anyone match the host against a CVE feed without probing it, which is how targets get shortlisted for mass exploitation after a new advisory lands.
What to do
Suppress version tokens in server banners (for example `ServerTokens Prod` in Apache) and keep the packages current.
asset: 104.21.22.249
20.212.64.12 (stagemams.cswe.org) reports nginx 1.28.0. Publishing precise versions lets anyone match the host against a CVE feed without probing it, which is how targets get shortlisted for mass exploitation after a new advisory lands.
What to do
Suppress version tokens in server banners (for example `ServerTokens Prod` in Apache) and keep the packages current.
asset: 20.212.64.12
Answers for this domain are not signed, so a resolver cannot tell a forged response from a real one.
What to do
Enable DNSSEC at your DNS host and publish the DS record at the registrar.
asset: cswe.org
Mail to this domain can be downgraded to plaintext by an on-path attacker, because senders have no way to know TLS is required.
What to do
Publish an MTA-STS policy (a TXT record plus a small HTTPS-hosted file).
asset: cswe.org
Any public certificate authority may issue certificates for this domain. CAA lets you name the ones allowed to.
What to do
Add a CAA record naming your CA, e.g. `0 issue "letsencrypt.org"`.
asset: cswe.org

✓Receives mail via 1 server
cswe-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
!SPFends in ~all
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:manuscriptcentral.com include:conferenceharvester.com include:spf.cadmiumcd.com ~all
✓DMARCp=quarantine
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; pct=20; rua=mailto:v2systems@cswe.org
!MTA-STSinbound mail can be downgraded to plaintext

!DNSSECanswers can be forged
–CAAany CA may issue
✓IPv6 (AAAA)
✓2 nameservers
aria.ns.cloudflare.com ethan.ns.cloudflare.com

✓Registered with Network Solutions, LLC30.1 years old
cswe.org
✓Registration expiry351 days
2027-08-25
✓Transfer lock
client transfer prohibited
✓2 nameservers at registry
aria.ns.cloudflare.com ethan.ns.cloudflare.com

Address	Ports	CVEs	Edge	Network
104.21.22.249 www.cswe.org +2	80443205220532082208320862087+5	18	Cloudflare~	—
172.67.207.229 www.cswe.org +2	80443205220532082208320862087+5	0	Cloudflare~	—
162.159.141.168 careers.cswe.org +2	80443205220532082208320862087+5	0	Cloudflare~	—
172.66.1.164 careers.cswe.org +1	80443205220532082208320862087+5	0	Cloudflare~	—
23.185.0.3 cswe.org +18	80443	0	Fastly~	—
12.53.28.97 remote.cswe.org +8	80443	0	direct	—
34.193.4.92 spark.cswe.org +3	80443	0	direct	—
34.225.242.50 spark.cswe.org +3	80443	0	direct	—
20.48.202.168 testmams.cswe.org +1	80443	0	direct	—
20.212.64.12 stagemams.cswe.org +2	80443	0	direct	—
40.84.48.35 membership.cswe.org +2	80443	0	direct	—
52.98.189.248 autodiscover.cswe.org	80	0	direct	—

Archived URLs

Endpoints the Wayback Machine has kept — config files, backups, scripts. Slow to fetch, so it is here on request.

cswe.org security report

Elevated

Findings

Email authentication

DNS

Registration

Hosts

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