OpenVAS Skills Assessment

Accessing OpenVAS

1. First step is to navigate to the hosted OpenVAS server

2. To do this, go in your browser and insert the following: https://ip_address:8080

3. The following will show up

1. Authenticate with htb-student:HTB_@cademy_student!.

2. You will now be logged in

Questions

What type of operating system is the Linux host running? (one word)

1. This one is simple

2. Just go the Linux Basic Scan

3. Open the report

4. Select the OS Tab and you will see that the OS is in fact Ubuntu

What type of FTP vulnerability is on the Linux host? (Case Sensitive, four words)

For this one, stay in the reporting section but go to the Results Tab, the answer will straight away be available, which is

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What is the IP of the Linux host targeted for the scan?

For this one, go to the "Hosts" Tab and you will see the IP that the scan was performed against.

What vulnerability is associated with the HTTP server? (Case-sensitive)

Go back to the results section and you will see the HTTP Vulnerability that was identified