decibel/openvas-docker repository overview

⁠OpenVAS image for Docker

A Docker container for OpenVAS on Ubuntu. By default, the latest images includes the OpenVAS Base as well as the NVTs and Certs required to run OpenVAS. We made the decision to move to 9 as the default branch since 8 seems to have many issues⁠ in docker. We suggest you use 9 as it is much more stable. Our Openvas9 build was designed to be a smaller image with fewer extras built in. Please note, OpenVAS 8 is no longer being built as OpenVAS 9 is now standard. The image is can still be pulled from the Docker hub, however the source has been removed in this github as is standard with deprecated Docker Images.

We currently package 2 versions:

⁠Usage

Simply run:

# latest (9)
docker run -d -p 443:443 --name openvas mikesplain/openvas
# 9
docker run -d -p 443:443 --name openvas mikesplain/openvas:9

This will grab the container from the docker registry and start it up. Openvas startup can take some time (4-5 minutes while NVT's are scanned and databases rebuilt), so be patient. Once you see a It seems like your OpenVAS-9 installation is OK. process in the logs, the web ui is good to go. Goto https://<machinename>

Username: admin
Password: admin

To check the status of the process, run:

docker top openvas

In the output, look for the process scanning cert data. It contains a percentage.

To run bash inside the container run:

docker exec -it openvas bash

⁠OpenVAS Manager

To use OpenVAS Manager, add port 9390 to you docker run command:

docker run -d -p 443:443 -p 9390:9390 --name openvas mikesplain/openvas

⁠Volume Support

We now support volumes. Simply mount your data directory to /var/lib/openvas/mgr/:

mkdir data
docker run -d -p 443:443 -v $(pwd)/data:/var/lib/openvas/mgr/ --name openvas mikesplain/openvas

Note, your local directory must exist prior to running.

⁠Set Admin Password

The admin password can be changed by specifying a password at runtime using the env variable OV_PASSWORD:

docker run -d -p 443:443 -e OV_PASSWORD=securepassword41 --name openvas mikesplain/openvas

⁠Update NVTs

Occasionally you'll need to update NVTs. We update the container about once a week but you can updater you container by execing into the container and running a few commands:

docker exec -it openvas bash
## inside container
greenbone-nvt-sync
openvasmd --rebuild --progress

⁠Contributing

I'm always happy to accept pull requests⁠ or issues⁠.

⁠Thanks

Thanks to hackertarget for the great tutorial: http://hackertarget.com/install-openvas-7-ubuntu/⁠ Thanks to Serge Katzmann for contributing with some great work on OpenVAS 8: https://github.com/sergekatzmann/openvas8-complete⁠