Revision as of 07:14, 28 May 2011

Description

Using OpenVAS to scan a hosts or network for vulnerabilities.

A remote host with various network services (SSH, HTTP, DNS, SMTP ...) is required. For example: a Linux server with OpenSSH, Apache HTTPd, ISC BIND, Postfix or Sendmail.
Ensure that the ports of the scanned services are opened in the remote host firewall.
Ensure the openvas-scanner, openvas-libraries, openvas-client packages are installed.

Start OpenVAS scanner: /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner
Create a new certificate: openvas-mkcert
Add a OpenVAS user: openvas-adduser
Update the NVTs: openvas-nvt-sync
Restart OpenVAS scanner (take a while for the first time): /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner restart
Start OpenVAS client: openvas-client (Or System Tools > OpenVAS Client)
Connect to OpenVAS server with the user created in step 3.
Create a new scan using the client and wait until it finishes.
Export the report to a HTML or PDF.

The scan should finish correctly.
In the report, you should see the network services being scanned and vulnerabilities reported.

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 |setup=
 * A remote host with various network services (SSH, HTTP, DNS, SMTP ...) is required. For example: a Linux server with OpenSSH, Apache HTTPd, ISC BIND, Postfix or Sendmail.
-* Install OpenVAS packages:
+* Ensure that the ports of the scanned services are opened in the remote host firewall.
-<pre>yum install openvas-scanner openvas-libraries openvas-client</pre>
+* Ensure the {{package|openvas-scanner}}, {{package|openvas-libraries}}, {{package|openvas-client}} packages are installed.
-* The ports of the scanned services must be opened in the firewall.
 |actions=
 # Start OpenVAS scanner: '''/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner'''