The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is the most widespread open source solution for vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.
OpenVAS is the scan engine used and supported as part of the Greenbone Security Solutions. The Greenbone development team has contributed significantly to the enhancement of OpenVAS since 2005.
- To install OpenVAS on Kali Linux use the
apt install openvas
command:
root@kali:~# apt-get install openvas
- Then use the
openvas-setup
command to set up OpenVAS, download the latest rules, create an admin user, and start up the various services:
root@kali:~# openvas-setup
- When the setup is finished, the OpenVAS manager, scanner, and GSAD services should be listening. To start OpenVAS, use the
openvas-start
command:
root@kali:~# openvas-start Starting OpenVas Services root@kali:~#
- Before we can use OpenVAS inside
msfconsole,
we need to load the OpenVAS plugin using theload
command:
msf > load openvas [*] Welcome to...