Accessing OpenVAS with Python

We could automate the process of getting the information stored in the OpenVAS server using the python-gmv module. This module provides an interface for interacting with the OpenVAS server's vulnerability scan functionality.

You can get more information about this module at https://pypi.org/project/python-gvm.

The API documentation is available at https://python-gvm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/gmpv7.html.

In the following example, we are going to connect with the OpenVAS server on localhost and get the version. You can find the following code in the openvas_get_version.py file:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import gvm
from gvm.protocols.latest import Gmp
connection = gvm.connections.TLSConnection(hostname='localhost')
with Gmp(connection=connection) as gmp:
    version = gmp.get_version()
    print(version)

In the previous code, we use the TLSConnection class that uses a socket connection...