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OpenVAS 7 Released – Open Source Vulnerability Scanner

January 17, 2015

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The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. The actual security scanner is accompanied with a daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs), over 35,000 in total (as of April 2014).

The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerability scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager controls the Scanner via OTP (OpenVAS Transfer Protocol) and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP). All intelligence is implemented in the Manager so that it is possible to implement various lean clients that will behave consistently e.g. with regard to filtering or sorting scan results.

OpenVAS 7 Released - Open Source Vulnerability Scanner

The Manager also controls a SQL database (sqlite-based) where all configuration and scan result data is centrally stored. Finally, Manager also handles user management includiung access control with groups and roles.

We haven’t written about OpenVAS for 6 years, when it first forked off from Nessus back in 2008. It sure has come a long way since then, especially with the fully stocked NVT feed – it’s become a pretty powerful tool with a well thought out architecture.

Still today it’s pretty much the only fully fledged Open Source vulnerability scanner out there.

Features

  • OpenVAS Scanner
    • Many target hosts are scanned concurrently
    • OpenVAS Transfer Protocol (OTP)
    • SSL support for OTP (always)
    • WMI support (optional)
  • OpenVAS Manager
    • OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP)
    • SQL Database (sqlite) for configurations and scan results
    • SSL support for OMP (always)
    • Many concurrent scans tasks (many OpenVAS Scanners)
    • Notes management for scan results
    • False Positive management for scan results
    • Scheduled scans
    • Flexible escalators upon status of a scan task
    • Stop, Pause and Resume of scan tasks
    • Master-Slave Mode to control many instances from a central one
    • Reports Format Plugin Framework with various plugins for: XML, HTML, LateX, etc.
    • User Management
    • Feed status view
    • Feed synchronisation
  • Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA)
    • Client for OMP and OAP
    • HTTP and HTTPS
    • Web server on its own (microhttpd), thus no extra web server required
    • Integrated online-help system
    • Multi-language support
  • OpenVAS CLI
    • Client for OMP
    • Runs on Windows, Linux, etc.
    • Plugin for Nagios

The powerful and comprehensive OpenVAS solution is available as Free Software and maintained on a daily basis. This is because of dedicated contributors and sponsors.

A major source of sustainability of OpenVAS comes from the strong commitment of companies that use OpenVAS as a cornerstone of their business:

You can download OpenVAS 7 Virtual Appliance here:

OpenVAS-7-DEMO-2.2.ova

Or read more here.

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Filed Under: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Hacking Tools, Networking Hacking Tools Tagged With: openvas, vulnerability management



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