Vulners NASL Plugin Feeds for OpenVAS 9. As I already wrote earlier, you can easily add third party nasl plugins to OpenVAS. So, my friends from Vulners.com realised generation of NASL plugins for OpenVAS using own security content. I’ve tested it for scanning CentOS 7 host. And it works =)

Let’s see the whole process.

I assume that we have installed OpenVAS 9 from sources using openvas-commander script.

I am going to the OpenVAS server and run all commands as root:

ssh vmuser@192.168.56.120
su

Cleaning NVT cache and updating plugins from Greenbone feed

If you already were experimenting  with own NASL scripts, it’s may be a good clear the OpenVAS vulnerability base.

Deleting cache and plugins for 2017:

find /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2017/ | grep "nasl" | xargs -i rm '{}'
find /usr/local/var/cache/openvas/2017/ | grep ".nvti" | xargs -i rm '{}'

Updating Greenbone content:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leonov-av/openvas-commander/master/openvas_commander.sh
chmod +x openvas_commander.sh
./openvas_commander.sh --update-content-nvt
./openvas_commander.sh --kill-all
./openvas_commander.sh --start-all
ps -aux | grep "openvassd" # Wait untill openvassd 100% reloaded

Rebuilding cache:

openvasmd --rebuild --progress

Output:

Rebuilding NVT cache... |
done.

And restart once again:

./openvas_commander.sh --kill-all
./openvas_commander.sh --start-all
ps -aux | grep "openvassd" # Wait untill openvassd 100% reloaded

Checking that there is no third-party plugins in GSM:

Seems good.

Adding Vulners NASL scripts

You can get a link to an archive at https://vulners.com/stats (icon with gear)

curl -k https://vulners.com/api/v3/archive/nasl/?type=centos > vulners_nasl.zip
unzip vulners_nasl.zip -d vulners_nasl
cp vulners_nasl/* /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2017/

Restart OpenVAS:

./openvas_commander.sh --kill-all
./openvas_commander.sh --start-all
ps -aux | grep "openvassd" # Wait untill openvassd 100% reloaded

And rebuild NVT cache:

openvasmd --rebuild --progress

Output:

Rebuilding NVT cache... |
done.

Checking Vulners plugins in GSM:

Both Greenbone and Vulners.com plugins here. Great!

Scanning CentOS host

I created a simple authenticated scanning task and launched it:

Some minutes letter I have the results, that I can easily filter.  For example, show vulnerabilities detected by Vulners nasl plugins:

vulnerability~"VulnersDB"

Plugin data:

…

Plugin text on Vulners.com website: https://vulners.com/api/v3/nasl/id/?id=CESA-2017:1842

###############################################################################
# OpenVAS centos Vulnerability Test
#
# kernel, perf, python security update
#
# Authors:
# Kir Ermakov
# Igor Bulatenko
# Ivan Elkin
# Alex Leonov
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (C) 2017 Vulners.com, https://vulners.com
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
...
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
###############################################################################

if(description)
{

  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.51337.5133700027808229620542704492639841805966348423");
  script_version("$Revision: 1 $");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-08-24T01:38:33 $");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"$Date: 2017-08-24T01:38:33 $");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9604",...,"CVE-2014-7970");
  
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_name("VulnersDB: CESA-2017:1842 kernel, perf, python security update");
  script_tag(name: "summary", value: "**CentOS Errata and Security Advisory** CESA-2017:1842


The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* An use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel which enables a race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges or crash the system. (CVE-2016-10200, Important)

...
**Affected packages:**
kernel
...
python-perf

**Upstream details at:**
");
  script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: "Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check if the version is vulnerable or not.");
  script_tag(name: "affected", value: "
  kernel-tools on CentOS 7 ,
...
  kernel-debug-devel on CentOS 7 ,
  kernel-headers on CentOS 7 ,
  perf on CentOS 7 ,");
  script_tag(name: "solution", value: "Please Install the Updated Packages.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name: "URL" , value: "http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2017-August/004249.html");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Vulners");
  
  script_xref(name: "CESA", value: "CESA-2017:1842");
  script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("HostDetails/OS/cpe:/o:centos:centos", "login/SSH/success", "ssh/login/release");


  exit(0);

}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = get_kb_item("ssh/login/release");

res = "";
if(release == NULL){
  exit(0);
}


if(release == "CentOS7")
{
  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-tools", rpm:"kernel-tools~3.10.0~693.el7", rls:"CentOS7")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }
}

...

if (__pkg_match) exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
  exit(0);

I can also filter vulnerabilities detected only by Greenbone plugins.

vulnerability~"CentOS Update"

As you can see on dashboards the results are not fully the same. Some vulnerabilities both Greenbone and Vulners found.

vulnerability~"CESA-2017:1481"

But, for example, CESA-2017:1842 that I have shown above on a sreenshot was detected only by Vulners plugins.

The plugin says that kernel-tools-3.10.0-514.el7 is vulnerable.

And it is, according to bulletin https://vulners.com/centos/CESA-2017:1842:

CentOS 7 x86_64 kernel-tools < 3.10.0-693.el7 kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.rpm

The answer is that Greenbone feed doesn’t contain this plugin (yet):

# ls /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2017/gb_CESA-2017_1842*
ls: cannot access /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2017/gb_CESA-2017_1842*: No such file or directory