You can use the following netstat command to check if these services are listening:
When the OpenVAS setup process is finished the OpenVAS manager, scanner and services are listening on port 9390, 9391, 9392 and on port 80. This password is used to login to the OpenVAS web interface so you need to save it somewhere and change it after the first login. When the installation process is finished you will be presented a long password on the last line of the console. Depending on your connection speed this might take a while to finish. The last commands is setting up OpenVAS and is synchronizing the NVT feed with the NVT collection on your machine.
Kali linux how to use openvas install#
Let’s start with installing OpenVAS and run the following commands in a terminal session to download and install OpenVAS: After the installation process is finished we will be scanning the Metasploitable 2 vulnerable machine we’ve installed earlier in the Metasploitable 2 installation tutorial for known vulnerabilities. If you haven’t installed Kali Linux yet we recommend you to do that first. The OpenVAS installation process is rather straight forward but might need some explanation along the way. In this tutorial we will be installing OpenVAS on the Virtual Kali Linux machine we’ve installed in an earlier tutorial. The OpenVAS scanner uses more than 47.000 Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) as of June 2016. Using an automated up-to-date vulnerability scanner in penetration test often helps you to find vulnerabilities which can be easily overlooked during a manual assessment.
OpenVAS is an advanced open source vulnerability scanner and manager and can save you a lot of time when performing a vulnerability analysis and assessment. In this tutorial we will be installing OpenVAS on Kali linux.