OPENVAS SCAN / Greenbone Enterprise Appliance (GEA) / Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) / Greenbone OS (GOS) (SSH Login)
🗓️ 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112136");
script_version("2026-06-23T06:54:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-06-23 06:54:08 +0000 (Tue, 23 Jun 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-11-23 10:47:05 +0100 (Thu, 23 Nov 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N");
script_name("OPENVAS SCAN / Greenbone Enterprise Appliance (GEA) / Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) / Greenbone OS (GOS) (SSH Login)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Product detection");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("greenbone/gos", "greenbone/gos/uname");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"SSH login-based detection of OPENVAS SCAN / Greenbone Enterprise
Appliance (GEA) / Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) / Greenbone OS (GOS).");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
exit(0);
}
include("ssh_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if( ! get_kb_item( "greenbone/gos" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! uname = get_kb_item( "greenbone/gos/uname" ) )
exit( 0 );
port = kb_ssh_transport();
version = "unknown";
type = "unknown";
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gos/detected", value:TRUE );
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gos/ssh-login/detected", value:TRUE );
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gos/ssh-login/port", value:port );
vers = eregmatch( pattern:'Welcome to the Greenbone OS ([^ ]+) ', string:uname, icase:FALSE );
if( ! isnull( vers[1] ) && vers[1] =~ "^([0-9.-]+)$" ) {
version = vers[1];
concluded = '\n ' + vers[0];
} else {
# nb:
# - GOS 4.x+ doesn't report the version in its login banner
# - Welcome to the Greenbone OS -> For version < 25.04.x
# - Welcome to Greenbone OS -> For versions >= 25.04.x
banner = egrep( pattern:"^Welcome to (the )?Greenbone OS.*", string:uname, icase:FALSE );
if( banner ) {
sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection();
# Available since GOS 4+
cmd = "gsmctl info gsm-info.full_version";
gsm_info = ssh_cmd( socket:sock, cmd:cmd, return_errors:FALSE, pty:FALSE );
if( gsm_info && gsm_info =~ "^([0-9.]+)$" ) {
version = gsm_info;
concluded += '\n Command: ' + cmd;
concluded += '\n Response: ' + gsm_info;
}
}
}
_type = eregmatch( pattern:'running on a Greenbone Security Manager ([^ \r\n]+)', string:uname );
if( _type[1] ) {
type = _type[1];
concluded += '\n ' + _type[0];
} else {
# Available since GOS 4+
sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection();
cmd = "gsmctl info gsm-info.type";
gsm_info = ssh_cmd( socket:sock, cmd:cmd, return_errors:FALSE, pty:FALSE );
if( gsm_info && gsm_info =~ "^([a-zA-Z0-9.]+)$" ) {
# nb: This has e.g. "one" in lower case
type = toupper( gsm_info );
concluded += '\n Command: ' + cmd;
concluded += '\n Response: ' + gsm_info;
}
}
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gsm/ssh-login/" + port + "/type", value:type );
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gos/ssh-login/" + port + "/version", value:version );
# nb: Shouldn't happen but still adding it just to be sure...
if( ! concluded )
concluded = '\n ' + uname;
set_kb_item( name:"greenbone/gos/ssh-login/" + port + "/concluded", value:concluded );
exit( 0 );
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