nickrabbott / Nessus-Exporter

Automate the export of Nessus information

Nessus Exporter

Nessus Exporter is an automation tool in Python that automates the export of Nessus Vulnerability Scans to be imported into an Analytics Platform. Currently, this works with Elastic Search and MongoDB Atlas, but I may extend functionality with other NoSQL platforms such as Splunk or DynamoDB.

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install the following packages.

pip install simplejson
pip install pandas

For systemd based systems, clone the repo under /etc

git clone [e-mail]:nickrabbott/Nessus-Exporter.git
or
git clone https://github.com/nickrabbott/Nessus-Exporter.git

Fill in the appropriate values in /config/config.ini. Polling_Interval is in seconds.

[DEFAULT]

[Exporter]
Polling_Interval = 86400

[NESSUS]
Protocol = https
IP = 0.0.0.0
Port = 8834
Secret_Key = nessus_secret_key
Access_Key = nessus_access_key

[ELK]
Protocol = https
IP = 0.0.0.0
Port = 9201
Auth = Basic_Auth

[Mongo]
URL = "mongodb atlas url"

Modify the systemd unit file under /config to store the appropriate values and remove the .sample extension.

[Unit]
Description=Nessus Exporter Service
After=network.target
After=elasticsearch.service
After=kibana.service
After=nessusd.service

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/etc/nessus-exporter/src/
User=nick
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -u /etc/nessus-exporter/src/nessusexporter.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Create a symbolic link to the unit file in /etc/systemd/system

sudo ln -s /etc/systemd/nessus-exporter.service /etc/nessus-exporter/config/nessus-exporter.service

Usage

Make systemd aware of the new unit file

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Start the service

sudo systemctl start nessus-exporter.service

Check the status of the service

sudo systemctl status nessus-exporter.service
● nessus-exporter.service - Nessus Exporter Service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/nessus-exporter/config/nessus-exporter.service; linked; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-03-16 00:41:01 UTC; 39min ago
 Main PID: 21837 (python3)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4656)
   CGroup: /system.slice/nessus-exporter.service
           └─21837 /usr/bin/python3 -u /etc/nessus-exporter/src/nessusexporter.py

View the logs associated with the service

sudo journalctl -u nessus-exporter.service

Contributing

Feel free to fork this repo or submit a pull request

License

MIT