Ruby-Nessus is a ruby interface for the popular Nessus vulnerability scanner. Ruby-Nessus aims to deliver an easy yet powerful interface for interacting and manipulating Nessus scan results and configurations. Ruby-Nessus currently supports both version 1.0 and 2.0 of the .nessus file format. Please remember to submit bugs and request features if needed.
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Documentation: rdoc.info/projects/mephux/ruby-nessus
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More: www.packetport.net
sudo gem install ruby-nessus
The below example illustrates how easy it really is to iterate of result data.
require 'rubygems' require 'ruby-nessus' Nessus::Parse.new("example_v1.nessus", :version => 1) do |scan| # OR: Nessus::Parse.new("example_v2.nessus") do |scan| <-- Ruby-Nessus will figured out the correct Nessus file version. puts scan.title # The Nessus Report Title. puts scan.runtime # The Scan Runtime. #=> 2 hours 23 minutes 12 seconds puts scan.host_count # Host Count. puts scan.unique_ports # All Unique Ports Seen. scan.each_host do |host| next if host.event_count.zero? # Next Host If Event Count Is Zero. puts host.hostname # The HostName For The Current Host. puts host.event_count # The Event Count For The Current Host. host.each_event do |event| next if event.severity.medium? # Next Event Is The Event Severity Is Low. (supports high? medium? low?) puts event.name if event.name # The Event Name If Not Blank. puts event.port # The Event Port. (supports .number, .protocol and .service) puts event.severity.in_words # The Current Event Severity In Words. i.e "High Severity" puts event.plugin_id # The Nessus Plugin ID. puts event.data if event.data # Raw Nessus Plugin Output Data. end end end
You also have the ability to search for particular hostnames. In the near future I plan to add the ability to pass the hosts block a hash of options for more complex searches.
scan.find_by_hostname("127.0.0.1") do |host| puts host.scan_start_time puts host.scan_stop_time puts host.scan_runtime host.high_severity_events do |event| puts event.severity.in_words puts event.port puts event.data if event.data end end
There are a bunch of convenient methods (maybe more then needed) added to make reporting a bit easier to produce quickly from a raw scan file. If you do not pass :version as an option it will default to the 2.0 .nessus schema.
Nessus::Parse.new("example_v2.nessus") do |scan| puts scan.event_percentage_for('low', true) #=> 8% puts scan.high_severity_count # High Severity Event Count puts scan.medium_severity_count # Medium Severity Event Count puts scan.low_severity_count # Low Severity Event Count puts scan.open_ports_count # Open Port Count puts scan.total_event_count #=> 3411 # Total Event Count puts scan.hosts.count #=> 12 scan.hosts.first do |host| puts host.hostname puts host.event_percentage_for('low', true) puts host.tcp_count #=> tcp, icmp, udp supported. host.each_event do |event| next if event.informational? puts event.severity.in_words puts event.synopsis puts event.description puts event.solution puts event.output puts event.risk end end end
Ruby-Nessus also ships with a POC CLI application for the lib called ‘recess’:
Recess 0.1.1 usage: recess FILE [OPTIONS] -f, --file FILE The .nessus file to parse. -h, --help This help summary page. -v, --version Recess Version.
Below is example output generated by recess:
$> recess examples/example_v2.nessus Recess - Ruby-Nessus CLI Version: 0.1.1 -> SCAN Metadata: Scan Title: Ruby-Nessus Policy Title: Ruby-Nessus -> SCAN Statistics: Host Count: 2 Open Port Count: 51 TCP Count: 38 UDP Count: 11 ICMP Count: 1 -> EVENT Statistics: Informational Severity Count: 19 Low Severity Count: 47 Medium Severity Count: 3 High Severity Count: 0 Total Event Count: 50 Low Event Percentage: 94 Medium Event Percentage: 6 High Event Percentage: 0 -> HOSTS: Hostname: snorby.org - IP Address:: 173.45.230.150 - Informational Count: 12 - Low Count: 34 - Medium Count: 1 - High Count: 0 Hostname: scanme.insecure.org - IP Address:: 64.13.134.52 - Informational Count: 7 - Low Count: 13 - Medium Count: 2 - High Count: 0
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Ruby 1.8 or 1.9
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Nokogiri github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri
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Add The Ability to parse the scan configuration and plugin options.
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Building XML (.nessus) files configurations
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Add Support For NBE File Formats.
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2009 Dustin Willis Webber. See LICENSE for details.