Create actionable data from your vulnerability scans
VulnWhisperer is a vulnerability data and report aggregator. VulnWhisperer will pull all the reports and create a file with a unique filename which is then fed into logstash. Logstash extracts data from the filename and tags all of the information inside the report (see logstash_vulnwhisp.conf file). Data is then shipped to elasticsearch to be indexed.
Currently Supports
Vulnerability Frameworks
- Nessus (v6 & v7)
- Qualys Web Applications
- Qualys Vulnerability Management (in progress)
- OpenVAS
- Nexpose
- Insight VM
- NMAP
- More to come
Getting Started
- Follow the install requirements
- Fill out the section you want to process in example.ini file
- Modify the IP settings in the logstash files to accomodate your environment and import them to your logstash conf directory (default is /etc/logstash/conf.d/)
- Import the kibana visualizations
- Run Vulnwhisperer
Requirements
- ElasticStack 5.x
- Python 2.7
- Vulnerability Scanner
- Optional: Message broker such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Install Requirements (may require sudo)
First, install dependant modules
cd deps/qualysapi
python setup.py install
Second, install requirements
pip install -r /path/to/VulnWhisperer/requirements.txt
cd /path/to/VulnWhisperer
python setup.py install
Now you're ready to pull down scans. (see run section)
Configuration
There are a few configuration steps to setting up VulnWhisperer:
- Configure Ini file
- Setup Logstash File
- Import ElasticSearch Templates
- Import Kibana Dashboards
Run
To run, fill out the configuration file with your vulnerability scanner settings. Then you can execute from the command line.
vuln_whisperer -c configs/example.ini -s nessus
or
vuln_whisperer -c configs/example.ini -s qualys
Running Nightly
If you're running linux, be sure to setup a cronjob to remove old files that get stored in the database. Be sure to change .csv if you're using json.
Setup crontab -e with the following config (modify to your environment) - this will run vulnwhisperer each night at 0130:
00 1 * * * /usr/bin/find /opt/vulnwhisp/ -type f -name '*.csv' -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;
30 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/vuln_whisperer -c /opt/vulnwhisp/configs/example.ini
For windows, you may need to type the full path of the binary in vulnWhisperer located in the bin directory.
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Credit
Big thank you to Justin Henderson for his contributions to vulnWhisperer!