I have received a few requests to do some feature enhancements and update the code for the new Nessus format. I will be making them, but most likely not until the end of the summer. My day job is just really crazy right now. But please keep the feed back coming.
Greetings All,
Here is a maintenance release of the Nessus parser. I would like to make a special shout out to Joe M (joebeast20 – AT – yahoo.com) for finding a bug and contributing the code. The bug Joe found were missing plugin families in the check and reporting functions. I took the opportunity to update the plugin families so all plugin families are now in the tool.
Thanks again Joe.
parse_nessus_xml.v15.pl
Nessus Parser v0.10 – This is a program to parse a series of Nessus XMLv2 files into a XLSX file. The data from the XML file is placed into a series of tabs to for easier review and reporting. New features with this edition are better reporting of policy plugin families, user account reporting, summary graphs, and a home page with summary data. For more information and questions please contact Cody Dumont from the NWN STAR team.
Email – cdumont”AT”nwnit.com and cody”AT”melcara.com
The Nessus parser requires some additional modules, they are:
• XML::TreePP;
• Data::Dumper;
• Math::Round;
• Excel::Writer::XLSX;
• Data::Table;
• Excel::Writer::XLSX::Chart;
To use the Nessus Parser simply install Perl and the modules above. Then change directory to the folder where the Nessus XMLv2 data files are stored. The enter the following command “perl parse_nessus_xml.v10.pl .” The “.” means the current directory. The parser looks in the directory passes as the command line argument and searches for XML files. Then parses through each file. Once the data from each file is collected, the parser will put the data into the XLSX file. Once the parser is finished there will be an XLSX file in the same folder passed earlier. Review the file and find the results of your Nessus scan.
I want to give a special thanks to John McNamara
parse_nessus_xml.v10.pl