audiness

Helper scripts to interact with Nessus instances. The CLI allows one to perform tasks on a Nessus installation without using the web interface.

Installation

The package is available in the Python Package Index.

$ pip3 install audiness --user

For Nix or NixOS users is a package available. Keep in mind that the lastest releases might only be present in the unstable channel.

$ nix-env -iA nixos.audiness

Setup

You have to generate API keys for your users. Click on username in the right upper corner, then select API keys and press the Generate button.

Note the access key and the secrect key somewhere.

If you don't plan to run audiness on the same host as your Nessus instance is running then it could be required that you use port-forwarding to access the Nessus web interface through a tunnel.

$ ssh -L 8834:localhost:8834 -l your_user_name host.with.nessus

Usage

Use --help to get a general overview or COMMAND --help for the detailed help.

$ audiness --help
                                                                                                                                  
 Usage: audiness [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                  
╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *  --access-key                TEXT  Nessus API access key [env var: ACCESS_KEY] [default: None] [required]                    │
│ *  --secret-key                TEXT  Nessus API secret key [env var: SECRET_KEY] [default: None] [required]                    │
│    --host                      TEXT  URL to Nessus instance [default: https://localhost:8834]                                  │
│    --install-completion              Install completion for the current shell.                                                 │
│    --show-completion                 Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.          │
│    --help                            Show this message and exit.                                                               │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ folders                                                                                                                        │
│ scans                                                                                                                          │
│ server                                                                                                                         │
│ software                                                                                                                       │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

If you don't want to enter the access key and the secrect key then put them in the environment of your shell.

$ export ACCESS_KEY="ae0bf3d57f8f8f6bcd8d01d3aedde60937d08647da4d89a6eb4dba2a9bee5d5d"
$ export SECRET_KEY="5f671a64819221e6b5c2361016af7dcaeb30de359009fee589b3a5d85dea11b4"

License

audiness is licensed under MIT, for more details check the LICENSE file.