Not really, any DB you know how to use and maintain will make it.

El jue., 13 de junio de 2019 7:08 p. m., Rafael Barbosa da Silva <
rafae...@gmail.com> escribió:

> Thanks a lot Andres!
>
> Makes a lot of sense.
>
> Is there any DB would you recommend?
>
> Regards.
> Rafael
>
> Em qui, 13 de jun de 2019 às 18:20, Andres Riancho <
> andres.rian...@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Rafael,
>>
>>     Thanks for your interest in w3af and using it to build a SaaS.
>> Answers and comments inline:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:07 PM Rafael Barbosa da Silva
>> <rafae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone, how are you?
>> >
>> > I would like to biuld a service that runs w3af and persists results in
>> a database. The idea is provide a web interface where we can run a scan and
>> also navigate through the results. Have any of you guys done something
>> related and would like to share? And even if you have not done so, would
>> you like to suggest a strategy? What about invoke a scan through the web
>> interface? Is there a way to run multiple instances of w3af scans?
>>
>>     This is how I would do it, and the ways I have heard others have done
>> it:
>>
>>  * The web interface you show to your user needs to know almost
>> nothing about w3af
>>
>>  * When the user clicks on "start scan" a new w3af scan script [0] is
>> created. Your SaaS will most likely have 3 or 4 different scan script
>> templates, for different use-cases your customers might have. The
>> template is filled with the target URL, credentials, etc. all provided
>> by the user, and then sent to a scan queue.
>>
>>  * The scans just sit in the queue until one of the scan workers gets to
>> them
>>
>>  * Scan workers are EC2 instances that read scan scripts from the
>> queue and execute them. If you want to get fancy, you can measure the
>> scan queue size and do +1 or -1 on the number of scan workers
>> depending on load
>>
>>  * The scan script should be configured to use output.xml_file output.
>> This plugin writes data to disk every ~30 seconds or so.
>>
>>  * The scan worker server will run w3af_console -s script AND another
>> process that monitors the XML file. This process will extract
>> vulnerabilities from the file and save them to a vulnerabilities
>> queue. The process that monitors the XML file should only report new
>> vulnerabilities, no duplicated vulns should be sent to the
>> vulnerabilities queue.
>>
>>   * Another process will read vulnerabilities from the queue and store
>> them to the DB. The front-end web application reads vulnerabilities
>> from the DB. Stuff like marking them as a false positive are handled
>> in the DB, w3af knows nothing about that.
>>
>>   * Just like there is a queue for vulnerabilities, you could add a
>> queue for scan progress. The XML file also contains that information.
>>
>>     Makes sense?
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/tree/master/scripts
>>
>> > Sorry about too many questions
>> > Regards.
>> > Rafael
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>>
>> --
>> Andrés Riancho
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