Vulnerability Databases: Classification and Registry

What publicly available Vulnerability Databases do we have? Well, I can only say that there are a lot of them and they are pretty different. Here I make an attempt to classify them. It's quite an ungrateful task. No matter how hard you try, the final result will be rather inaccurate and incomplet...

Microsoft Windows: Do not display last user name

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winildisplaylastuser.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Interactive logon: Do not display last user name Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Windows 10: Impersonate a client after authentication

This policy setting determines which programs are allowed to impersonate a user or another specified account and act on behalf of the user. If this user right is required for this type of impersonation, an unauthorized user cannot cause a client to connect for example, by remote procedure call RP...

Microsoft Office: Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013opt-inwizard.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This progra...

OpenVAS Knowledge Base become smaller

At 23 January Jan Oliver Wagner, leader of OpenVAS project and Greenbone CEO, sent an email with a subject "Attic Cleanup". In this message, he mentioned, that some NASL plugins will be excluded from the public NVT / Greenbone Community Feed GCF soon. On the one hand it seems logical. These old...

Open Source Vulnerability Assessment and Management: Archery

Archery is an opensource vulnerability assessment and management tool which helps developers and pentesters to perform scans and manage vulnerabilities. Archery uses popular opensource tools to perform comprehensive scaning for web application and network. It also performs web application dynamic...

Archery - Open Source Vulnerability Assessment And Management Helps Developers And Pentesters To Perform Scans And Manage Vulnerabilities

Archery is an opensource vulnerability assessment and management tool which helps developers and pentesters to perform scans and manage vulnerabilities. Archery uses popular opensource tools to perform comprehensive scaning for web application and network. It also performs web application dynamic...

Vulnerability Management for Network Perimeter

Network Perimeter is like a door to your organization. It is accessible to everyone and vulnerability exploitation does not require any human interactions, unlike, for example, phishing attacks. Potential attacker can automate most of his actions searching for an easy target. It's important not t...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2017.3 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed After a long hiatus, it's good to be back and posting about the latest Kali Linux 2017.3 release! The last Kali Linux release was made available a couple of months ago. Presumably, this new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release...

Seccubus - Easy Automated Vulnerability Scanning, Reporting And Analysis

Seccubus automates regular vulnerability scans with various tools and aids security people in the fast analysis of its output, both on the first scan and on repeated scans. On repeated scan delta reporting ensures that findings only need to be judged when they first appear in the scan results or...

Vulners NASL Plugin Feeds for OpenVAS 9

As I already wrote earlier, you can easily add third party nasl plugins to OpenVAS. So, my friends from Vulners.com realised generation of NASL plugins for OpenVAS using own security content. I've tested it for scanning CentOS 7 host. And it works = Let's see the whole process. I assume that we...

Scaner-VS: Vulnerability Management solution for Russian Military

Scaner-VS is a Vulnerability Assessment system developed by Moscow-based NPO Echelon. It's pretty popular in Russian government organizations, especially in Russian Army, because it comply all government requirements, has all necessary certificates and is relatively cheap. As for requirements and...

Great OpenVAS news: delay in plugin feed will be dropped, new GVM-Tools for remote management released

Jan Oliver Wagner, CEO of Greenbone and OpenVAS Community leader sent recently several messages to community email list with the great news. First of all, Greenbone decided to drop two weeks delay in a free plugin feed, that was implemented in June 2017 and made some OpenVAS users pretty nervous....

Fedora Update for openvas-scanner FEDORA-2017-3fb16e3a65

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-cli FEDORA-2017-3fb16e3a65

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-libraries FEDORA-2017-3fb16e3a65

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-gsa FEDORA-2017-3fb16e3a65

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-manager FEDORA-2017-3fb16e3a65

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OpenVAS Framework / GVM Components End of Life (EOL) Detection

The version of the OpenVAS framework / Greenbone Vulnerability Management GVM component on the remote host has reached the End of Life EOL and should not be used anymore. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyrig...

Fedora 26 : openvas-cli / openvas-gsa / openvas-libraries / openvas-manager / etc (2017-3fb16e3a65)

Update to openvas-9 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...