greenbone/openvas-scanner
This repository contains the scanner component for Greenbone Community Edition.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 57 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #52 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 30, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a full-featured vulnerability scanner engine for the Greenbone Community Edition and Enterprise appliances.
- Continuously updates and extends its feed of vulnerability tests to ensure comprehensive and current security assessments.
- Use for performing automated vulnerability assessments in enterprise network environments to identify security risks.
- Use for integrating vulnerability scanning capabilities into containerized security workflows using provided Docker images.
- Use for developing or enhancing security tools by leveraging its Rust-based scanner implementation for improved modularity and maintainability.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 2.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
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).
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
8AE4 BE42 9B60 A59B 311C 2E73 9823 FAA6 0ED1 E580.This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:
For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file INSTALL.md. The file also contains instructions for setting up
openvasand 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 https://www.greenbone.net/en/testnow.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
807+16
Open issues
16-10
Compared with peers in Security
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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| cloudflare/security-audit-skill | 61.7K | +8.8K | 17 | — |
| KeygraphHQ/shannon | 51.2K | +1.1K | 32 | 8 days ago |
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| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.3K | +360 | 40 | today |
| caddyserver/caddy | 78.8K | +267 | 60 | 1 day ago |
| greenbone/openvas-scanner | 4.9K | — | 35 | today |
| Category median | 51.2K | +712 | 38 | — |
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