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Running a vulnerabilitty scan with GVM

Running a vulnerabilitty scan with GVM - Purple Tutorial

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Running a vulnerabilitty scan with GVM

Okay. Before we run a scan, let's check our administration feed status and we can see we're all current. Let's now run our first scan against the Metasploitable server. To run a scan, we select "Scans" and we'll use the wizard denoted by the wand, Task Wizard, to do an immediate scan of 192.168.1.113, which is our Metasploitable server. And we'll start the scan. In the status, we can see that the scan has been requested. Okay. The scan has now been queued for action and it's started. We'll let the scan complete and then come back to it. Our scan has finished and the scan screen shows one report. We can click on the report number or date to open it. The Report Screen Information tab shows the task name and the time taken for the scan. We can select the Results tab, and we can see we have a lot of high severity issues. Starting with a possible backdoor, some XSS and command execution vulnerabilities, operating system end of life, multiple distributed Ruby remote code execution…

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