Am 01.10.2014 um 17:21 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> Am 01.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Brandon Perry:
>> I agree that utilities like dirb and nikto are useful as plugins for OpenVAS 
>> since these are generally applicable
>> to any web server.
>>
>> Arachni and wapiti require such application specific configurations that I 
>> wouldn't want to give people using
>> OpenVAS the idea that running arachni through OpenVAS is as good as running 
>> it independently. Both are very
>> powerful (particularly arachni), but I do think they almost serve a 
>> different purpose than OpenVAS in that OpenVAS
>> in my mind is about finding and remediating known vulnerabilities such as 
>> missing patches and a /backup folder on a
>> web server.
>>
>> Finding SQL injections and XSS should be in the development lifecycle, not 
>> the patch management and insecure
>> configuration discovery
> 
> no - finding SQL injections and XSS is *by definition* the purpose of a 
> security scan

but for that OpenVAS would need to learn basics like
send the host-header correct to scan a specific vhost

maybe with v7 that works now, in the past you always
scanned the apache default vhost

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