OpenVAS / Greenbone

v22.4.1Greenbone Networks

Authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scanning across an estate, driven by the Greenbone community feed. Produces per-host findings with CVE, CVSS and remediation guidance, plus report export. The range scans the authored estate and reports the vulnerabilities the scenario actually models.

Category: Vulnerability scanning
Package: gvm
Runs on: Linux
Commands: gvm-cli, gvm-script, openvas, greenbone-feed-sync
Console: https://gvm.range.local:9392

Findings come from the scenario's authored vulnerability state. No probe is sent anywhere.

Install it

The scripts below install the real Greenbone Networks package on your own machine — read them first, and run them somewhere you are allowed to change. Inside the range, one press puts the simulated package on your next machine.

Linux installer (shell script)

install-openvas.sh

Windows installer (PowerShell)

Install-openvas.ps1

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

On a range machine

Add it to your kit and every machine you launch comes with it.

On Linux

Debian, Ubuntu, Kali (apt)

Refresh the package lists
```
sudo apt update
```
Install OpenVAS / Greenbone
```
sudo apt install -y gvm
```

RHEL, Fedora (dnf)

Install OpenVAS / Greenbone
```
sudo dnf install -y gvm
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Arch (pacman)

Install OpenVAS / Greenbone
```
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm gvm
```

Alpine (apk)

Install OpenVAS / Greenbone
```
sudo apk add gvm
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Check it worked

Confirm it landed on PATH
```
which gvm-cli
```
Check the version
```
gvm-cli --version
```
The range reports 22.4.1.

Remove it

Take it off again
```
sudo apt remove --purge gvm
```

On Windows

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install a Linux userland on the Windows host
```
wsl --install -d Ubuntu
```
The upstream project has no native Windows build; WSL is the usual way round it.
Install OpenVAS / Greenbone inside it
```
wsl sudo apt install -y gvm
```

Inside the range

Tick it on the launch screen
Under OpenVAS / Greenbone's category on the advanced tool shelf. A lab that depends on it locks the toggle on and says why.
Or install it from a range terminal
```
sudo apt install -y gvm
```
The simulated package manager seeds the same binaries, config and receipt the shelf toggle does.
Everything here is simulated
No software is downloaded and nothing executes — the range answers from authored fixtures.

Labs that use OpenVAS / Greenbone

No lab locks this one on yet — tick it on the launch screen and take it into any scenario.