This repository provides a golang library which can be used to launch and export nessus scans by interacting with the web api directly.
See the relevant godocs for more in-depth usage information.
If you don't want to use the library, and only launch scans, you can install the minimal scan launcher script with go get github.com/Cgboal/nessus/nessuscli.
The following code snippet shows how this library can be used to launch nessus scans.
package main
import (
"github.com/cgboal/nessus"
"os"
"fmt"
"flag"
"log"
)
func main () {
hostname, _ := os.Hostname()
targets := flag.String("t", "", "Comma seperated list of targets to feed to nessus")
name := flag.String("n", "", "Name of the scan which shall be created")
username := flag.String("u", "", "Nessus Username")
password := flag.String("p", "", "Nessus password")
nessus_location := flag.String("host", hostname, "Nessus hostname, defaults to os hostname")
flag.Parse()
url := fmt.Sprintf("https://%s:8834", *nessus_location)
nessus := nessus.NewNessus(url)
if *targets == "" || *name == "" {
flag.Usage()
log.Fatal("Targets or name not specified")
}
if *password == "" || *username == "" {
log.Println("Attempting to use NESSUS_USERNAME and NESSUS_PASSWORD environment variables")
nessus.EnvCredentials()
} else {
nessus.Credentials(*username, *password)
}
nessus.Authenticate()
scanId := nessus.LaunchScan(*name, *targets)
nessus.Wait(scanId)
report, _ := nessus.ExportAsNessus(scanId)
fmt.Println(report)
}