OpenVAS Scanner
This is the OpenVAS Scanner of the Greenbone Community Edition.
It is used for the Greenbone Enterprise appliances and is a full-featured
scan engine that executes a continuously updated and extended feed of
Vulnerability Tests (VTs).
Releases
All release files are signed with
the Greenbone Community Feed integrity key.
This gpg key can be downloaded at https://www.greenbone.net/GBCommunitySigningKey.asc
and the fingerprint is 8AE4 BE42 9B60 A59B 311C 2E73 9823 FAA6 0ED1 E580.
Installation
This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:
cmake .
make install
For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file
INSTALL.md. The file also contains instructions for setting up
openvas and for making the scanner available to other GVM modules.
If you are not familiar or comfortable building from source code, we recommend
that you use the Greenbone Enerprise TRIAL, a prepared virtual
machine with a readily available setup. Information regarding the virtual machine
is available at https://www.greenbone.net/en/testnow.
Docker, Greenbone Community Containers
If you want to use the docker files provided in this repository you can pull them
from here. You can also locally
build them using:
docker build -t <image-name> -f .docker/prod.Dockerfile .
For more information about building docker images, see
official man.
We also provide a fully containerized
solution
for the Greenbone Community Edition.
Please beware: The Greenbone Community Container are currently under development.
Support
For any question on the usage of openvas please use the Greenbone
Community Portal. If you found a problem
with the software, please create an
issue on GitHub. If you
are a Greenbone customer you may alternatively or additionally forward your
issue to the Greenbone Support Portal.
Maintainer
This project is maintained by Greenbone Networks GmbH.
Contributing
Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull
request on GitHub. Bigger
changes need to be discussed with the development team via the issues section
at GitHub first.
License
This module is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0
only. Single files, however, are licensed either the GNU General
Public License v2.0 only or under GNU General Public License v2.0 or later,
please see the COPYING file for details.
