OpenVAS 8 Only 25 Results

Vulnerability Tests
1

Hello,
im using GSA v6. The task for checking my system brings only 25 result entries in the report. Is this a correct number of vulnerabilities to check?

2

Hi,

GSA 6 is part of OpenVAS 8 which has reached its end-of-life a few months ago. Please update ASAP to the latest GVM-9 (end-of-life, initial release 2017-03-07) - Greenbone Community Edition - Greenbone Community Forum .

Unfortunately this is a question no one can answer you without having knowledge of / deep insights into your scanned environment. The amount of results for a scan highly depends on various factors like:

  1. exposed and identified services, applications
  2. existing vulnerabilities within this services/applications
  3. coverage of 1. and 2. within the used feed
  4. the chosen port list (e.g. All TCP vs. nmap top 1000) assigned to your task / target
3

Yes, you can’t know my configuration. The thing i’d like to know is, if 25 is a realistic number of checks. I suspected a much higher number.

4

How can I determine a feed compatibility issue?

5

Hi,

please upgrade to OpenVAS / GVM-9 as previously advised and you don’t need to worry about this.

Such an upgrade is strongly advised as e.g. OpenVAS 8 won’t receive (due its end-of-life) a bugfix for issues like discussed in: