Hello aspiring hackers. This article is a tutorial about OpenVAS vulnerability scanner. In one of our previous howto’s, we saw how to install OpenVAS in Kali Linux. Today we will see how to perform a vulnerability assessment with OpenVAS. The target on which I have performed this vulnerability assessment is Metasploitable. Start Kali Linux ( The system on which we have installed OpenVAS,,, obviously). Open a terminal and type the following commands as underlined below.
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Then open a browser and direct the browser to port no 9392 as shown below. You should get the following interface.
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We will perform a quick scan. In the blank given, enter the IP address of our target as shown below and click on “Start Scan” as shown below.
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The scan will run as shown below. It will take quite a bit of a long time. So I would suggest you go and eat some pani puri and come back.
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Once you are back, the scan should be finished and will look as shown below. Click on the link shown below.
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You should get a general summary of the scan.
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Now let us see the scan report. Go to “Scan Management” tab and click on Reports as shown below. It will show you a list of scans we performed. In our case, there is only one scan.
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Now click on the scan as shown below.
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This is our entire scan report with all the vulnerabilities existing in our target classified from high to low.
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