Re: Nessus 4.2 Bridge.

[HD Moore <hdm () metasploit com>]

On 9/14/2010 9:31 PM, Zate Berg wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am pretty new to Ruby and this is my first attempt at adding something
> to msf.  I am after feedback on both the coding, and the concept involved.
>
> Concept:  Nessus 4.2 XMLRPC Connection, similar to the NeXpose
> functionality.  Supporting authentication, scan management, policy
> management, reporting and user management.  Right now it just connects,
> auths, lists reports and imports the nessusV2 report.  If I am heading
> in the right direction with this, I'll implement the rest.
>
> It's implemented as a plugin, with it's own stand alone library in
> lib/nessus/nessus-xmlrpc
>
> Uses the Nessus XMLRPC Ruby Library from sourceforge, pretty much
> unmodified.  I added a function to grab a list of the reports.  Again,
> just making sure it's clear, I didn't write the library, but it;s GPL
> and I've left all the credits in it.   I'll fix anything that is wrong
> with it though and send the changes to the author.
>
> I only started looking at Ruby a few ays ago, I usually work in perl or
> PHP, so feel free to point out stupid things I have done.
>
> nessus.rb --> in plugins
> nessus-xmlrpc.rb --> lib/nessus

After Vlatko Kosturjak updated the plugin to be dual-licensed, we were
able to commit both the nessus xmlrpc library as well your plugin.
Thanks for the contribution and feel free to send updates via the
msfdev[at]metasploit.com alias.

-HD
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