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Re: Plugin names, numbers and descriptions

from [George A. Theall] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Plugin names, numbers and descriptions
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:10:54 -0400 
On 09/26/07 11:52, Bob Babcock wrote:


It is, at least on the Windows side, awkward to translate from plugin id
number to category and description in the GUI.  Is there any tool available
to read the plugins directory and make a table of script name, id number,
category, description, etc?


One option might be to use a Perl script I wrote a couple of years ago, 
describe-nessus-plugin. It parses the script description in NASL plugins 
and outputs selected fields such as script id, CVE id, risk factor, etc. 
I've only used it on *nix systems, but I don't see why it wouldn't work 
on Windows too as long as you have the requisite modules (in particular, 
Text::Balanced and Text::Wrap). It's available at:

   http://www.tifaware.com/perl/describe-nessus-plugin/

You could then use describe-nessus-plugin in another script that 
iterates over the NASL plugins in a given directory and produces the 
table with the information you're interested in.

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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