OpenVAS

OpenVAS#

Description#

OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner. Its capabilities include unauthenticated and authenticated testing, various high-level and low-level internet and industrial protocols, performance tuning for large-scale scans and a powerful internal programming language to implement any type of vulnerability test.

Home page for this solution: https://www.openvas.org/

Overview#

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Name

openvas-scanner

Description

This repository contains the scanner component for Greenbone Community Edition.

License

GNU General Public License v2.0

Programming Language

Rust

Created

2018-01-22

Last update

2025-03-20

Github Stars

3666

Project Home Page

https://greenbone.github.io/docs/

Code Repository

greenbone/openvas-scanner

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