The open vulnerability assessment system is a modular security auditing tool, used for testing remote systems for vulnerabilities that should be fixed.

it is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. the server/daemon, openvasd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, openvas-client, provides an x11/gtk+ user interface.

this package contains the dfsg-free openvas plugins, a set of security tests as well as scripts to build additional plugins.