Re: Aggregating vulnerability report data?

From: Javier Fernádez-Sanguino Peń (jfernandezat_private)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 09:27:48 PST

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    Mensaje citado por aheckerat_private:
    
    > Folks,
    > 
    > Been googling for an answer to this for a number of weeks now, but have had
    > no success, so I figured I'd toss it out to the forum & see what y'all
    > think.
    
    The nessus (-devel) lists are searchable at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/
    (more specifically http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=nessus-devel&r=1&w=2) you
    might find it useful to go through the database integration development that is
    being implemented for nessus (in the USE_SQL CVS branch).
    
    It currently is possible to take the nessus reports and dump them to a database.
    See more on this below.
    
    > 
    > I've been involved in doing vulnerability assessments (and penetration tests)
    > for some time now; I use *both* nessus and ISS Internet Security Scanner, but
    > have yet found a way to correlate and aggregate their information into one
    > comprehemsive document. The only thing I've seen that even purports to do
    > something like this is the HArris STATAnalyzer, but I can't get any real,
    > solid info on *it*, either.
    
    Since ISS's tool uses an SQL database (MSDE IIRC) to store the results you can
    dump the Nessus results into this same database (using the tools below) and work
    from there. Notice that since both Nessus and Internet Scanner do use a common
    vulnerability representation (i.e. CVE, cve.mitre.org) it is possible to
    generate reports with the information on vulnerabilities found by both scanners
    rather easily.
    
    You just need to understand both Nessus E/R schema (see below) and Internet
    Scanner's (read the documentation) to work useful SQL queries to correlate both
    information.
    
    Of course you can use third party products to correlate this information. But
    Nessus support might be lacking in those. 
    
    > 
    > Anyone have any pointers for me? It'd be much appreciated.
    > 
    
    On the Nessus side:
    - For the database information:
    http://cvs.nessus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/nessus-core/doc/database/?hideattic=0&only_with_tag=NESSUS_SQL#dirlist
    - For the tool to extract the information:
    http://cvs.nessus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/nessus-tools/nessus-extract/?hideattic=0&only_with_tag=NESSUS_SQL
    
    
    
    Oh! And if you manage to do something please contribute it to the list :-)
    
    Regards
    
    Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
    Security Division
    Germinus
     
    
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