gvm

The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is a modular security auditing tool, used for testing remote systems for vulnerabilities that should be fixed.

This package installs all the required packages. It provides scripts to setup, start and stop the GVM services.

The tool was previously named OpenVAS.

Installed size: 47 KB
How to install: sudo apt install gvm

gvm-check-setup

root@kali:~# gvm-check-setup -h
gvm-check-setup 23.11.0
  Test completeness and readiness of GVM-23.11.0
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS (Scanner)... 
        OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 23.9.0.
        OK: Notus Scanner is present in version 22.6.4.
        ERROR: No CA certificate file for Server found.
        FIX: Run 'sudo runuser -u _gvm -- gvm-manage-certs -a -f'.

 ERROR: Your GVM-23.11.0 installation is not yet complete!

Please follow the instructions marked with FIX above and run this
script again.

gvm-feed-update

root@kali:~# gvm-feed-update -h
[>] This script is now deprecated
[>] Please use 'sudo greenbone-feed-sync' instead

gvm-setup

root@kali:~# gvm-setup -h

[>] Starting PostgreSQL service

gvm-start

root@kali:~# gvm-start -h
[>] Please wait for the GVM services to start.
[>]
[>] You might need to refresh your browser once it opens.
[>]
[>]  Web UI (Greenbone Security Assistant): https://127.0.0.1:9392

gvm-stop

root@kali:~# gvm-stop -h
[>] Stopping GVM services
* gsad.service - Greenbone Security Assistant daemon (gsad)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gsad.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:gsad(8)
             https://www.greenbone.net

* gvmd.service - Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon (gvmd)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gvmd.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:gvmd(8)

Nov 17 14:31:38 kali systemd[1]: Starting gvmd.service - Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon (gvmd)...
Nov 17 14:31:38 kali systemd[1]: gvmd.service: Can't open PID file /run/gvmd/gvmd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Nov 17 14:31:50 kali systemd[1]: gvmd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 17 14:31:50 kali systemd[1]: Stopped gvmd.service - Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon (gvmd).

* ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ospd-openvas.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:ospd-openvas(8)
             man:openvas(8)

Nov 17 14:31:35 kali systemd[1]: Starting ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas)...
Nov 17 14:31:38 kali systemd[1]: Started ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas).
Nov 17 14:31:50 kali systemd[1]: Stopping ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas)...
Nov 17 14:31:51 kali systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 17 14:31:51 kali systemd[1]: Stopped ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas).
Nov 17 14:31:51 kali systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Consumed 2.617s CPU time, 97.3M memory peak.

* notus-scanner.service - Notus Scanner
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/notus-scanner.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: https://github.com/greenbone/notus-scanner

Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]:     raise AdvisoriesLoadingError(
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]: notus.scanner.errors.AdvisoriesLoadingError: Can't load advisories. /var/lib/notus/products is not a directory.
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]: Exception ignored in atexit callback: <function exit_cleanup at 0x7ffff4ecbb00>
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/notus/scanner/utils.py", line 101, in exit_cleanup
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]:     sys.exit()
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali notus-scanner[1437709]: SystemExit:
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali systemd[1]: notus-scanner.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 17 14:31:36 kali systemd[1]: notus-scanner.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 17 14:31:50 kali systemd[1]: Stopped notus-scanner.service - Notus Scanner.