How To Install xcat on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xcat on Fedora 34.
What is xcat
XCat is a command line program that aides in the exploitation of blind XPath injection vulnerabilities. It can be used to retrieve the whole XML document being processed by a vulnerable XPath query, read arbitrary files on the hosts filesystem and utilize out of bound HTTP requests to make the server send data directly to xcat.
We can use yum or dnf to install xcat on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xcat.
Install xcat on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xcat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xcat
Install xcat on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xcat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xcat
How To Uninstall xcat on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xcat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xcat
xcat Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xcat
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/algorithms.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/algorithms.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/attack.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/attack.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/display.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/display.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/features.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/features.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/injections.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/injections.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/oob.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/oob.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/shell.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/shell.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/utils.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/utils.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/algorithms.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/attack.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/display.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/features.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/injections.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/oob.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/shell.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xcat/utils.py
/usr/share/doc/xcat
/usr/share/doc/xcat/README.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xcat on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
