6-Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM)

Source

Today I will show you guys how to install Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) on Kali Linux 2022
I use sources below as reference

Requirement

  • OS: Kali Linux 2022
  • At least 4 GB RAM
  • At least 4 vCPUs
  • More than 8 GB disk space (We used 16 GB in this demo)

Prerequisites

  • Update dependencies
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install GVM

  • Install the latest GVM packages on Kali Linux
sudo apt install gvm -y
  • Set up GVM (This process will take very long time)
sudo gvm-setup
  • Check setup
gvm-check-setup

  • Create new admin user
sudo runuser -u _gvm -- gvmd --create-user=<username> --new-password=<password>

  • Sync DB
sudo runuser -u _gvm – greenbone-nvt-sync

Fixing the “fail to find scan config”

  • Get scanner ID
sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --get-scanners

  • Get user ID
sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --get-users --verbose

  • Replace scanner ID with user ID
sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --modify-scanner <scannerid> --value <userid>

Using GVM

Dashboards Tab

This is where you mangament all of your scan

Scans Tab

This is where your main workflow will be

  • Task : to create scan
  • Reports : to show the report from scan
  • Results: to show the general result from multiple scan
  • Vulnerability: to list our the information about the vul in whole system

Assets

To show the host in the network

Resilence

To configure and remediate ticket from vul

SecInfo

To show the info about vuldb and threat intelligence

Configuration

To modify the options of the scan

  • Target: to set up the target for the scan
  • Port list: to customize the port list for the scan
  • Credentials: to add credentials for the scan
  • Scan Configs: to modify the config of the scan

Administration: to set up account