OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner. It is the scanner component of Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM), a software framework of several services and tools offering vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management
OpenVAS’s capabilities include unauthenticated and authenticated testing, various high-level and low-level internet and industrial protocols, performance tuning for large-scale scans and a powerful internal programming language to implement any type of vulnerability test.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Consists of the components ospd-openvas and openvas-scanner. The OpenVAS Scanner is controlled via OSP. The OSP Daemon for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas) communicates with gvmd via OSP: VT data is collected, scans are started and stopped, and scan results are transferred to gvmd via ospd.
- Perform various types of authenticated/unauthenticated tests.
- Supports a variety of high- and low-level Internet and industrial protocols.
- Uses the daily updated and comprehensive feeds: the full-featured, extensive, commercial Greenbone Security Feed (GSF) or the free available Greenbone Community Feed (GCF).
- Has an internal programming language that can be used for implementing custom vulnerability tests.
Website: www.openvas.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Greenbone Networks GmbH
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
OpenVAS is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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