How To Install xcat on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xcat on Fedora 36.
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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xcat.
Install xcat on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install xcat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xcat
Install xcat on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 36
To uninstall only the xcat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xcat
xcat Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/xcat
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat-1.0.4-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/algorithms.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/algorithms.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/attack.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/attack.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/display.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/display.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/features.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/features.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/injections.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/injections.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/oob.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/oob.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/shell.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/shell.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/utils.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/__pycache__/utils.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/algorithms.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/attack.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/display.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/features.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/injections.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/oob.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xcat/shell.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
