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OpenVAS

Open Source

About OpenVAS

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 programming language to implement vulnerability tests. The scanner obtains tests for detecting vulnerabilities from a feed that has a long history and daily updates. OPENVAS has been developed and driven forward by the company Greenbone since 2006. As part of the commercial vulnerability management product family OPENVAS SCAN, the scanner forms the OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION together with other open-source modules.

Products

OPENVAS: A full-featured vulnerability scanner.
OPENVAS SCAN: A commercial vulnerability management product family that OPENVAS is part of.
OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION: A combination of the scanner together with other open-source modules.

Used for

Performing unauthenticated and authenticated testing.
Testing various high-level and low-level internet and industrial protocols.
Tuning performance for large-scale scans.
Implementing vulnerability tests using an internal programming language.

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How to evaluate Vulnerability Management

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of OpenVAS. It comes from our Vulnerability Management Platforms buyer guide.

25%

Asset Discovery & Coverage

Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning, agent + agentless options, coverage of cloud and ephemeral workloads, containers/Kubernetes, OT/IoT, identity, external attack surface, and unmanaged/shadow assets — plus how it avoids blind spots between scan windows

25%

Prioritization Quality

Beyond CVSS: exploit-prediction scoring (EPSS), known-exploited intelligence (CISA KEV), in-the-wild and ransomware association, exploit maturity, reachability/exploitability, and business asset criticality — the “which findings actually matter” engine and how transparent and tunable its scoring is

20%

Remediation & Workflow

Ticketing and ITSM integration (ServiceNow, Jira), patch-management hooks, remediation grouping by fix, SLA tracking, owner assignment, change-ticket automation, and closed-loop verification that a fix actually landed — not just that a ticket closed

15%

Exposure Context & Validation

Attack-path analysis and choke-point identification, unification of vuln + misconfiguration + identity findings, and validation that an exposure is genuinely reachable (control checks, exploitability confirmation) so the priority list reflects real risk, not theoretical severity

10%

Integration & Data Aggregation

Open API depth, ingestion of third-party scanner and CNAPP findings, de-duplication and normalization across tools, SIEM/SOAR and CMDB connectors, and how cleanly it fits an existing security stack rather than demanding rip-and-replace

Reporting & Program Metrics

Executive and board-ready risk reporting, trend lines on mean-time-to-remediate and risk burndown, SLA and compliance attestation (PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP), and role-based views that hold owners accountable

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