nmapopenvas

OpenVAS shows $Revision: $ instead of actual Service Version

I'm using OpenVAS-8 with nmap 7. On the reports of OpenVAS you can see a field called "Version used". On mine it just shows Version used: $Revision: 1369 $ or Version used: $Revision: 69 $ but not the version.

I think there is a misinterpretation because of the Dollar-signs. Is it caused by nmap 7? The output of nmap -sV -Pn ... is actually the same like in the versions before so there shouldn't be any parsing errors... Any hints?

Solution

  • OpenVAS is using the SVN-Revision as version for the NVTs.

    http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-56.html
    "Version tag: The SVN "Revision" tag is used for the version. Therefore the script files need to be prepared for this for SVN and the script_version() command in the NVTs must be present and contain the correct "Revision" SVN tag"