Vulnerability-Scan-Nessus

VirtualBox networking, Nessus Essentials setup, target VM Metasploitable

Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus Essentials

This repository documents Priyadharshini Rengaramanujam's Lab: configuring VirtualBox networking, scanning a vulnerable VM (Metasploitable 2) from an attacker PC with Nessus Essentials, and reporting findings with remediation recommendations.

Contents

• report/Rengaramanujam-Priyadharshini-Lab.pdf — Scan evidence: IPs, screenshots, vulnerability summary by severity, and two critical fix recommendations.
• BLOG.md — Lessons learned from running and interpreting vulnerability scans.

Lab Highlights

• Attacker PC (Windows 10/11) runs Nessus on https://localhost:8834/ and scans target VM over host-only network.
• Target VM: Metasploitable 2, discovered services and known exposures (e.g., UnrealIRCd backdoor, deprecated SSL v2/v3, weak VNC, NFS/rlogin/rsh).

Author

Priyadharshini Rengaramanujam