greenbone / openvas-scanner
This repository contains the scanner component for Greenbone Community Edition.
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Crawler viewOpenVAS 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 . 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 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 Enterprise TRIAL, a prepared virtual machine with a readily available setup. Information regarding the virtual machine is available at . Rust Implementation This repository also consists of a rust project aiming to replace the current scanner stack (openvas-scanner, ospd-openvas, notus-scanner). It simplifies the use of the scanner and centralizes everything needed for scanning. Currently it uses the openvas-scanner as scan engine. Docker, Greenbone Community Containers If you want to use the docker files provided in this repository you can pull them from the Greenbone registry. You can also locally build them using: 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 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 AG. Contributing Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull request on GitHub. Remember to commit the contribution agreement as explained in RELICENSING folder with your first PR. Bigger changes should be discussed with the development team via the issues section at GitHub first. License This repository consists of two scanner implementation, one in programming language C and one in programming language Rust. This module except for the Rust-implementation in directory rust/ is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 only. Single files, however, are licensed either under the GNU General Public License v2.0 only or under GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, please see the license-details.md file for details. The Rust-implementation in directory rust/ is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later with OpenSSL exception. Single files, however, are additionally licensed under MIT.