Hello everyone,
I hope this is the good place to ask, if not feel free to tell me where I should ask this.
I am running openVAS 9 on a fresh new install on Debian 9, regular scans work but OSP scanners don’t. In the following case this concerns ospd-w3af but ospd-debsecan and ospd-nmap don’t work the same way.
my gsad --version:
Greenbone Security Assistant 7.0.2
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
my pip freeze :
ospd==1.2.0
ospd-debsecan==1.2b1
ospd-nmap==1.0b1
ospd-w3af==1.0.0
my openvas-check-setup :
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS Scanner ...
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 5.1.1.
OK: redis-server is present in version v=3.2.6.
OK: scanner (kb_location setting) is configured properly using the redis-server socket: /tmp/redis.sock
OK: redis-server is running and listening on socket: /tmp/redis.sock.
OK: redis-server configuration is OK and redis-server is running.
OK: NVT collection in /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/plugins contains 47727 NVTs.
WARNING: Signature checking of NVTs is not enabled in OpenVAS Scanner.
SUGGEST: Enable signature checking (see http://www.openvas.org/trusted-nvts.html).
OK: The NVT cache in /usr/local/var/cache/openvas contains 47727 files for 47727 NVTs.
Step 2: Checking OpenVAS Manager ...
OK: OpenVAS Manager is present in version 7.0.2.
OK: OpenVAS Manager database found in /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/mgr/tasks.db.
OK: Access rights for the OpenVAS Manager database are correct.
OK: sqlite3 found, extended checks of the OpenVAS Manager installation enabled.
OK: OpenVAS Manager database is at revision 184.
OK: OpenVAS Manager expects database at revision 184.
OK: Database schema is up to date.
OK: OpenVAS Manager database contains information about 47727 NVTs.
OK: At least one user exists.
OK: OpenVAS SCAP database found in /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/scap-data/scap.db.
OK: OpenVAS CERT database found in /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/cert-data/cert.db.
OK: xsltproc found.
Step 3: Checking user configuration ...
WARNING: Your password policy is empty.
SUGGEST: Edit the /usr/local/etc/openvas/pwpolicy.conf file to set a password policy.
Step 4: Checking Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) ...
OK: Greenbone Security Assistant is present in version 7.0.2.
OK: Your OpenVAS certificate infrastructure passed validation.
Step 5: Checking OpenVAS CLI ...
OK: OpenVAS CLI version 1.4.5.
Step 6: Checking Greenbone Security Desktop (GSD) ...
SKIP: Skipping check for Greenbone Security Desktop.
Step 7: Checking if OpenVAS services are up and running ...
OK: netstat found, extended checks of the OpenVAS services enabled.
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is running and listening on a Unix domain socket.
OK: OpenVAS Manager is running and listening on a Unix domain socket.
OK: Greenbone Security Assistant is listening on port 443, which is the default port.
Step 8: Checking nmap installation ...
WARNING: Your version of nmap is not fully supported: 7.40
SUGGEST: You should install nmap 5.51 if you plan to use the nmap NSE NVTs.
Step 10: Checking presence of optional tools ...
OK: pdflatex found.
WARNING: PDF generation failed, most likely due to missing LaTeX packages. The PDF report format will not work.
SUGGEST: Install required LaTeX packages.
OK: ssh-keygen found, LSC credential generation for GNU/Linux targets is likely to work.
OK: rpm found, LSC credential package generation for RPM based targets is likely to work.
OK: alien found, LSC credential package generation for DEB based targets is likely to work.
OK: nsis found, LSC credential package generation for Microsoft Windows targets is likely to work.
It seems like your OpenVAS-9 installation is OK.
To create the scanner in openvas, I use:
openvasmd --create-scanner="w3af" --scanner-host=127.0.0.1 --scanner-port=1235 --scanner-type="OSP" \
--scanner-ca-pub=/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem \
--scanner-key-pub=/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/clientcert.pem \
--scanner-key-priv=/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/private/CA/clientkey.pem
To run ospd-w3af scanner, I use:
~# ospd-w3af -b 127.0.0.1 -p 1235 -k \
/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/private/CA/clientkey.pem -c \
/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/clientcert.pem --ca-file \
/usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem -L DEBUG
When I verify the scanner with openvasmd --verify-scanner xxxxx I got
Scanner version: 2018.8.22.
note: in the logs of the scanner I got this for every verify I do, I don’t know if it’s related or no and I didn’t find a way to fix this:
2018-10-15 14:27:47,413 ospd.ospd: DEBUG: New connection from 127.0.0.1:60078
2018-10-15 14:27:49,430 ospd.ospd: DEBUG: Error: ('The read operation timed out',)
2018-10-15 14:27:49,433 ospd.ospd: DEBUG: 127.0.0.1:60078: Connection closed
2018-10-15 15:40:10,783 ospd.ospd: DEBUG: New connection from 127.0.0.1:60110
2018-10-15 15:40:12,823 ospd.ospd: DEBUG: Error: ('The read operation timed out',)
2018-10-15 15:40:12,824 ospd.ospd: ERROR: While handling client command:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ospd/ospd.py", line 491, in handle_client_stream
response = self.handle_command(data)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ospd/ospd.py", line 792, in handle_command
return self.handle_get_scanner_details()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ospd/ospd.py", line 739, in handle_get_scanner_details
self.get_scanner_params_xml()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ospd/ospd.py", line 443, in get_scanner_params_xml
('mandatory', param['mandatory'])]:
KeyError: 'mandatory'
So, my verification made, I want to create a task that uses this scanner but I can’t save it due to error “Given scanner_type was invalid” :
I got 0 connection to the chosen scanner at this moment and I can’t find anything in the logs (maybe I can’t search). I suspect the gsad UI being responsible for this but I can’t find it.
If someone more expert than me (not very hard) and has any clue of what’s happening, I’d be very thankful
Thank you for reading
