Setup OpenVAS on SOC Kali

OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner. Its capabilities include unauthenticated and authenticated testing, various high-level and low-level internet and industrial protocols, performance tuning for large-scale scans, and a powerful internal programming language to implement any type of vulnerability test.

The scanner obtains the tests for detecting vulnerabilities from a feed that has a long history and daily updates.

Step 1

First, update and upgrade the distro packages. This can take some time.

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade or sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

In case, there are issues, run the commands individually

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2

Install the openvas

sudo apt-get install openvas

Step 3

Next, configure

Select "Vulnerability Analysis" from the list of applications and click on

Enter the password for kali

Step 4

Next, start the openvas

Step 5

To change the password

sudo gvmd --user=admin --new-password=your_newpassword_here
OR
sudo -E -u _gvm -g _gvm gvmd --user=admin --new-password=NEW_PASSWD