navi-pro 6.4.7

A command-line interface to Tenable.io

Navi - The Tenable.io Swiss Army Knife

A command-line tool which leverages the Tenable.io API to automate common tasks in Cyber Exposure or Vulnerability Management.

*** This tool is not an officially supported Tenable project ***

*** Use of this tool is subject to the terms and conditions identified below,
 and is not subject to any license agreement you may have with Tenable ***

Important Notes

Navi is being converted to use pytenable as it's base.  Many of the commands
have already been converted to using pytenable.

Navi will download the entire data-set(90 days) locally after API keys are entered and the update command is used! To download Vulnerability data and Asset data you have to be an Administrator in Tenable.io.

All Vulns and All Assets are downloaded into a SQLLITE database named navi.db in the current directory.

Most of the API calls nessessary to make navi work require access to your all of the available data. Tenable.io has a 5000 record limit so Navi utilizes the Export API.

The data will not be updated until you run the update command. Keep this in mind when adding elements to Tenable.io like Tags.

navi update full

Alternatively you can select which export you want to update:

navi update assets

navi update vulns

Furthermore, you can limit how much data is downloaded by using the --days command

navi update assets --days 2

You can even specify your export id.

navi update vulns --exid 123456-987654-asdfgh-jklopi-ididis

You can also control the amount of threads used for downlaods (1-10) The Default thread value is 10.

navi update vulns --threads 4

Common Issues

My Docker container keeps getting "Killed"

Navi uses threading, to speed up downloads; It pulls 50 asset chunks on 10 threads and since the vulnerabilities per asset fluctuate this can spike the memory above 2G. If this happens increase your memeory to 4G for under 10,000 assets and 8Gb for larger asset counts..

Directions for Mac

Directions for Windows

I keep getting DB locks

I'm still working on a fix for large accounts, those over 100K assets. For now use the thread option to avoid DB locks by reducing it to 1. Increasing your RAM and running Navi on SSDs will speed help avoid DB locks.

navi update full --threads 1

What is my Navi Version

Versions older than 5.1.36 do not have this feature.

navi display -version

Are my Keys inputted correctly?

In different terminals it can be a challenge to copy the keys to navi since you can not be sure it copied correctly.

Use the below commands to check your keys

navi find query "select * from keys;"

Alternatively, you could try entering your keys again using the '-clear' command to see what is being copied to the screen.

navi keys -clear

What is the biggest Tenable.io instance Navi has been tested on?

Navi 6.3.0 was recently tested on a container with 250,000 assets and 41 million vulnerabilties.
It took 30 mins for t.io to prepare the download and 30 mins to download and parse the data into navi.db which ended up being 31GB. Plugin queries took 2secs where looking for text in an output took 2mins.

6.2.3 improves query performance by a factor of 10 with the below changes.

• Three indexes where added to reduce vuln query time
• Exports were reduced to 50 from 500 assets to increase download time
• Synchronous was turned off to speed up downloads
• DB cache was increased to 10000 from 2000 default in SQLite

Download and Configure navi in a Docker Container

docker pull silentninja/navi:latest

docker run -it -p 8000:8000 silentninja/navi:latest /bin/bash 

navi keys

navi update full

Detach from Container

CTR+Q+P - CTR+Q+P

Attach to Contianer

docker attach <container id>

<press enter>

Configure Docker Container For Reporting

Navi has a few reporting capabilities where a CSV is the output. To extract this data from the container you will need to launch the container with port 8000 exposed and use the 'http' command to extract the reports.

docker run -it -p 8000:8000 silentninja/navi:latest /bin/bash

Extract Data from the Docker Container

To extract data from the container you need to run an http server. Use the below built in command.

navi http

• Navigate to the website: http://127.0.0.1:8000
• Simply download the item you want by clicking on it.

Download Navi from PyPI - navi-pro

Prepare your Machine

• Install Python3

Install Navi using pip

pip3 install navi-pro

Uninstall Navi using pip

pip3 uninstall navi-pro

Navi General Usage

Before you begin you need the Keys! The program will continue to error out without valid API keys. Note: The keys will not show up on the screen; similar to a password prompt.

navi keys

Alternatively, to support automation, you can add your keys with a single command

navi keys --a your-access-key  --s your-secret-key

There are 25 core commands:

• add Manually add an asset to Tenable.io
• agroup Create an Access group Based on a Tag or Agent Group
• api Test the API ex: scans
• cs Interact with the Container Security API
• delete Delete objects from Tenable IO
• display Display or Print information found in Tenable.io
• export Export Ienable.io Data
• find Discover what is in Tenable.io
• http Spin up a http server to extract data from the Docker container
• ip Get IP specific information
• keys Enter or Reset your Keys
• listen Open up a Netcat listener to accept files over port 8000
• lumin Adjust ACRs in Lumin by tag
• mac Enter in a Mac Address to find the Manufacturer
• mail Mail yourself a Report
• network Create, Change Networks or Display Assets in a network
• portal A web interface to explore the navi DB [BETA- Doesn't work in...
• scan Create and Control Scans
• smtp Enter or Overwrite your SMTP information
• tag Create a Tag Category/Value Pair
• tgroup Create a Target Group
• update Update local repository
• user Enable, Disable or add users
• usergroup Create a group or Add/remove a user from a group
• was Interact with WAS V2 API
• migrate Migrate AWS tags to T.io tags

Explore the Tenable.io API - 'api'

In many cases, it is useful to see the data behind an api endpoint either to plan for automation and development or for troubleshooting an issue. Using the 'api' command allows you to send a 'GET' request to Tenable.io and return json data using the pprint.

Enter in a API endpoint and get a pretty print json ouput. Try some of the below endpoints: Note: You do not need to include the first slash '/' in your request. so '/scans' becomes 'scans'

• scans
• scanners
• users

api - examples

navi api /scans 

navi api /scanners

navi api /users

navi api /workbenches/assets

IP address queries - 'ip'

The majority of the options in the ip command are using the plugin output. This is the fastest way to get access to the most important data in vulnerability management and/or remediation activities.

When a you're trying to chase down a vulnerability or addressing risk on a certain asset, you have lots of questions about the asset.

• What software is on the asset? navi ip 192.168.1.100 -software
• When was the last reboot(WMI)? navi ip 192.168.1.100 --plugin 56467
• When was the last scan? navi ip 192.168.128.100 --plugin 19506
• Was the last scan authenticated? navi ip 192.168.128.100 --plugin 19506
• What ports are open? navi ip 192.168.128.100 --plugin 11219
• Who owns this asset(using Tags)? navi ip 192.168.128.100 -details

All of these questions are answerable using the 'ip' command to
discover asset related information very quickly.

• --plugin TEXT --> Find Details on a particular plugin ID
• -n --> Netstat Established and Listening and Open Ports(requires verbosity)
• -p --> Patch Information
• -t --> Trace Route
• -o --> Process Information
• -c --> Connection Information
• -s --> Services Running(requires verbosity)
• -r --> Local Firewall Rules(requires verbosity)
• -d --> Scan Detail: 19506 plugin output
• -patches --> Missing Patches
• -software --> Find software installed on Unix of windows hosts
• -outbound --> Display outbound connections found by NNM
• -exploit --> Display exploitable vulnerabilities
• -critical --> Display critical vulnerabilities
• -details --> Details on an Asset: IP, UUID, Vulns, etc
• -vulns --> Display all vulnerabilities and their plugin IDs
• -info --> Display all info plugins and their IDs
• -cves --> Display all cves found on the asset

ip - Examples

navi ip 192.168.1.1 --plugin 19506

navi ip 192.168.1.1 -details -software

navi ip 192.168.1.1 -vulns

Find information - 'find'

While the 'ip' command helps find unknown information on known assets. The 'find' command helps identify the unknown information on unknown assets. For instance, consider the following questions and the time it may take for you to answer them.

• What assets have port 21/ftp open? navi find port 21
• How many assets took longer than 20 mins to scan? navi find scantime 20
• Where are credential failures happening? navi find creds
• What assets are running Docker? navi find docker
• What assets have java vulnerabilities? navi find name java
• What linux assets have splunk package installed? navi find plugin 22869 --output "splunk"

All of these answers are discoverable using the find command. While it is not a panacea at scale, it can help identify if the question at hand is worth your time to investigate. To explain, if you run the navi find port 21 command and find nothing vs finding 1000s, your action may change dramatically.

• creds --> Find Assets with Credential Issues using plugin 104410
• cves --> Find Assets that have a given CVE
• docker --> Find Docker Hosts using plugin 93561
• ghost --> Find Assets that have not been scanned in any Cloud
• name --> Find Assets with a given port open
• plugin --> Find Assets where a plugin fired
• port --> Find Assets with a given port open
• query --> Find Assets with a given port open
• scantime --> Find Assets where a plugin fired
• webapp --> Find Potential Web Apps using plugin 1442 and 22964

Container Security Information - 'cs'

• report TEXT --> Display Vulns of CVSS 7 or above by Container ID.
• comply TEXT --> Check to see if your container complies with your Policy

cs - Examples

navi cs report  48b5124b2768

navi cs comply 48b5124b2768

Display - Common Information - 'display'

All of the display commands send a basic 'GET' request to the applicable API endpoint and present the most useful data in a friendly format. This command is great for confirming a change you made using navi. For instance, if you added a user, is the user enabled?

• scanners --> List all of the Scanners
• users --> List all of the Users
• exclusions --> List all Exclusions
• containers --> List all containers and their Vulnerability Scores
• logs --> List The actor and the action in the log file
• running --> List the running Scans
• scans --> List all Scans
• nnm --> Nessus Network Monitor assets and their vulnerability scores
• assets --> Assets found in the last 30 days
• policies --> Scan Policies
• connectors --> Displays information about the Connectors
• agroup --> Displays information about Access Groups
• status --> Displays Tenable.io License and Site information
• agents --> Displays information on Agents
• webapp --> Displays information on Web app Scans
• tgroup --> Displays information about Target Groups
• licensed --> Displays All of your Licensed assets
• tags --> Displays Tag Categories, Values and Value UUID
• categories --> Displays Tag Categories and the Category UUID
• cloud --> Displays Cloud assets found in the last 30 days
• networks --> Displays Network IDs
• version --> Displays Current Navi Version
• usergroup --> Display current user groups
  • --membership TEXT --> Display user of a certain group using the Group ID

Examples

navi display scanners

navi display running

navi display nnm

navi display usergroup --membership 192939

Add assets manually or via a CSV file - 'add'

To add an asset you need an IP address; Everything else is optional. If you are going to use a CSV file you need to structure it in this order: IP, Mac, Hostname, FQDN. This is the order the information is parsed so getting it incorrect will cause errors.

• --ip TEXT --> IP address(s) of new asset
• --mac TEXT --> Mac Address of new asset
• --netbios TEXT --> NetBios of new asset
• --fqdn TEXT --> FQDN of new asset
• --hostname TEXT --> Hostname of new asset
• --list - TEXT --> Import all assets in the CSV file
• --source - TEXT --> Add the Source

add examples

navi add --ip "192.168.1.1" --mac "01:02:03:04:05:06" --netbios "Netbios Name" --fqdn "[e-mail]" --hostname "myhostname" --source "commandline"

navi add --file my_csv_file.csv --source "My source"

Add, Disable or Enable Users - 'user'

• add --> Add User. Requires:
  • --username, --u TEXT Username Required
  • --password, --p TEXT Users password. Required
  • --permission, --m TEXT Users Permission. Required
  • --name, --n TEXT Users Name. Required
  • --email, --e TEXT Users email. Required
• enable TEXT --> Enable user by User ID
• disable TEXT --> Disable user by User ID

user examples

Notice - The '\' before the '!' is to treat '!' as a string and instead of a special command.
Be careful about certain special characters and their commandline implications.
Don't share the password with the user, force them to reset their password!

navi user add --username "[e-mail]" --password "Dietcoke\!12345" --permission 64 --name "Thor" --email "[e-mail]"

navi user enable 192939

navi user disable 192939

Create a group or Add/Remove a user from a group - 'usergroup'

• create Create a new User Group
  • --name TEXT The Name of the user group. Required
• add Add a user to a user group
  • --name TEXT The Name of the group. Required
  • --user TEXT The User Name to be added. Required
• remove Remove a user from a group. Requires --name and user
  • --name TEXT The Name of the group. Required
  • --user TEXT The User Name to be removed. Required

usergroup examples

navi usergroup create --name Linux

navi usergroup add --user [e-mail] --name Linux

navi usergroup remove --user [e-mail] --name Linux

Tag assets by Plugin Name, or Plugin ID - 'tag'

Tagging is a key component of a Risk Based vulnerability management program. Using navi you can automate tagging based on plugin information or even an existing tag. Furthermore, you can continue to add to tags to create a nested tag structure. This tagging functionality and use cases are beyond the scope of this documentation.

• --c --> Create a Tag with this Category - Required
• --v --> Create a Tag with this Value - Required
• --d --> Create a description for your Tag - Optional (TEXT"
• --plugin --> Define a Tag by a plugin ID - Optional (TEXT)
• --name --> Define a tag by text found in a plugin Name - Optional (TEXT)
• --group --> Define a tag by a Agent Group Name - Optional (TEXT)
• --output TEXT --> Create a Tag based on the text in the output. Requires --plugin
• --port TEXT --> Create a Tag based on Assets that have a port open
• --file TEXT --> Create a Tag based on IPs in a CSV file
• --scantime TEXT --> Create a Tag for assets that took longer than supplied minutes
• --cc TEXT --> Add a Tag to a new parent tag: Child Category
• --cv TEXT --> Add a Tag to a new parent tag: Child Value
• --scanid TEXT --> Create a tag based on a scan ID

tag Examples

navi tag --c "My Category" --v "My Value" --d "My description" --plugin 93561

navi tag --c "Application Vulns" --v "Java vulns" --name java

navi tag --c "Agent Group" --v "Linux Agents" --group "Linux"

navi tag --c "Corp Agents" --v "Agent Groups" --cc "Agent Group" --cv "Linux Agents"

Note on Tagging assets

If you created a new Tag you will need to run an update on the assets to download the new Tag relationships. This is especially important if you want to export using your newly created tag.

navi update assets

Note on Tagging using Agent Groups

The Agent group APIs are currently limited to 500 agents. This is because Agents do not become "assets" until they are scanned in T.io and therefore do not get an asset UUID.
The Asset UUID is used to bulk Tag assets and with it's absence I chose to utilize the only unique identifier given, the Tenable UUID. While I can pull 5000 agents from this endpoint
creating a Tag Rule is limited to 500 rules. Since Taggging Agents by Group requires a Tenable Tag rule, it effectively limits this feature to 500 Agents for each Group.

Tagging Agents Workaround

There is a recently work around created in 6.2.3 to tag all agents in a Agent Group; using the Tag by Scan-ID function. It will require you to retrieve the "Scan ID" for all Agent scans. You can acheive this by using the "navi display scans" command.

Migrate - Migrate AWS tags to Tenable.io

As you know Tags are kind of a thing in the cloud and using them in T.io enriches the VM data and makes managing VM workloads easier. Navi integrates with AWS via the Boto3 python SDK. Currently, you authenticate via the command-line and as such should be used in Container workloads to reduce any security implications. In the near future, an AWS keys table will be crated to hold all of your AWS keys. Using this command takes all of your AWS tags and migrates them to T.io.

• --region --> "Enter your region Ex: us-west-1"
• --a --> "Enter your AWS access Key"
• --s --> "Enter your AWS secret Key"

Migrate Examples:

navi migrate --region "us-west-1" --a <AWS ACCESS KEY> --s <AWS SECRET KEY>

Create Access Groups by Tags or Agent Groups - 'agroup'

Grouping is the theme when trying to influence positive change in a risk based vulnerability management program. Since Tagging is the natural way to group assets, it only makes since to add those to access groups for limiting access or keeping remediatiors in their lane.

• --name TEXT Create an Access group with the following Name
• -tag Create a Access Group by a Tag
• --c TEXT Category name to use: requires --v and Value Name
• --v TEXT Tag Value to use; requires --c and Category Name
• --group TEXT Create a Access Group based on a Agent Group
• --user TEXT User you want to Assign to the Access Group
• --usergroup TEXT User Group you want to assign to the Access Group
• -scan Set Scan ONLY permission
• -view Set View ONLY permission
• -scanview Set Scan AND View permissions

agroup examples

navi agroup --name "My New Group" -tag --c "OS" --v "Linux" --user username@yourdomain -scanview

navi agroup --name "My Other Group" --group "Linux" --usergroup "Linux Admins" -scan

Create Target Groups by Cloud Connector or IPs - 'tgroup'

Target groups are an additional way to scan a group of assets. However, it is challenging to scan assets automatically when they are extremely dynamic or short lived. For instance, what if you wanted to automate a non-credentialed scan on the external interface and an authenticated scan on the internal interface of a cloud asset?

• --name Create Target Group with the following Name
• --ip Create Target Group by Ip(s) or subnet(s) separated by coma
• -aws Turn AWS assets found by the connector into a Target Group
• -gcp Turn GCP assets found by the connector into a Target Group
• -azure Turn Azure assets found by the connector into a Target Group
• --days Set the number of days(30 default) for the IPs found by the connector. Requires: aws, gcp, or azure

Examples

navi tgroup --name "By IP" --ip "192.168.128.0/24, 192.168.56.1"

navi tgroup --name "AWS Assets Found in 7 days" -aws --days 7

navi tgroup --name "AWS Assets Privte IPs" -aws -priv

navi tgroup --name "AWS Assets Public IPs" -aws -pub

Bulk Adjust ACRs based on a Tag - 'lumin'

Adjusting Asset Criticality using context is a key component of a risk based vulnerability management program. Since Tagging is the foundation of grouping assets, it makes since to use these groupings to apply Asset criticality.

• --acr --> The new ACR value (1-10)
• --c --> The Tag Category to use
• --v --> The Tag value to use
• --note --> Justification for ACR change
• -business', '-b' Add Business Critical To ACR Change Reason(s)")
• -compliance', '-c' Add Compliance To ACR Change Reason(s)")
• -mitigation', '-m' Add Mitigation Controls To ACR Change Reason(s)")
• -development', '-d' Add Development To ACR Change Reason(s)")

Note - ACR Exceptions?

Tag your assets with "NO:UPDATE" if you don't want to be affected by bulk ACR changes
Category = NO
Value = UPDATE

ACR examples

navi lumin --acr 10 --c "Applications" --v "Core Business" --note "Main application"

navi lumin --acr 9 --c "Corporate Apps" --v "Jira" -d 

navi lumin --acr 8 --c "Corporate Apps" --v "Confluence" -development -b -c

WAS V2 API - Interact with 2.0 APIs

• scans --> Displays WAS Scans
• start --> Start Scan with Provided Scan ID
• details --> Get Scan Details with Provided Scan ID
• scan --> Create a scan via FQDN or CSV file name; use -file option for bulk scan creation via CSV file
• -file --> File name of the CSV containing Web Apps for bulk scan creation
• configs --> Show config UUIDs to start or stop scans
• stats --> Show scan stats
• summary --> Summary of all of the Web Apps
• export --> Export Web app information into a CSV
  • -d --> Export most plugin information per completed web app scan
  • -s --> Export summary information per complted web app scan

navi was scans

navi was configs

navi was details 123456789-aedd-45dc-9c0d-fc87a9a5a1c9

navi was scan http://myscan.com

navi was scan mycsvfile.csv -file

navi was stats 123456789-aedd-45dc-9c0d-fc87a9a5a1c9  

navi export -d

navi export -s

Export Asset, Agent, Consec, or Webapp Data - 'export'

• assets --> Export Assets data into CSV: IP, Hostname, FQDN, UUID, exposure, etc
• agents --> Export Asset data into CSV: IP, Last Connect, Last scanned, Status
• was --> Export Webapp Scan Summary into a CSV - WAS V2
• consec --> Export Container Security summary info into a CSV.
• licensed --> Export a List of all Licensed Assets into a CSV.
• lumin --> Export all Asset data including ACR and AES into a CSV. This will take some time
• network --> Export all Assets of a given network
• bytag Export all assets by tag; Include ACR and AES into a CSV
  • --c TEXT Export bytag with the following Category name
  • --v TEXT Export bytag with the Tag Value; requires --c and Category Name
  • --ec TEXT Exclude tag from export with Tag Category; requires --ev
  • --ev TEXT Exclude tag from export with Tag Value; requires --ec
• users --> Export User information

export examples

navi export assets

navi export agents 

navi export network 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Export into a CSV, but include the ACR and AES of each asset. This takes a bit of time.

navi export lumin

Export into a CSV via a Tag

navi export bytag --c "OS" --v "Linux"

Export into a CSV via a Tag; but exclude a specific Tag.

navi export bytag --c "OS" --v "Linux" --ec "OS" --ev "AWS"

Delete an Object by an ID

• agroup --> Delete an access group by UUID
• asset --> Delete an Asset by Asset UUID
• bytag --> Delete assets by Tag. Supply Tag-string: Category:value EX: OS:Linux
• category --> Delete Tag Category by Category UUID
• container --> Delete a container by '/repository/image/tag'
• policy --> Delete a Policy by Policy ID
• repository --> Delete repository from Container Security
• scan --> Delete a Scan by Scan ID
• tgroup --> Delete a target-group by target-group ID
• user --> Delete a user by User ID - Not UUID
• usergroup --> Delete a user group by the Group ID
• value --> Delete Tag Value by Value UUID

delete examples

navi delete 1234 -scan

navi delete 4567 -agroup

navi delete 8910 -tgroup

navi delete 12345 -asset

navi delete 6789 -policy

navi delete bytag OS:linux 

Mail a Report

• -latest - Mail a report of the latest scan: Same output as "report -latest"
• -consec - Mail a report of the ConSec Summary: Same output as "list -containers"
• -webapp - Mail a report of the WebApp Summary
• --message - Email a custom message for automation. Concatinate a navi command.
• --to - Email address to send to
• --subject - Subject of the email
• -v - Display a copy of the message on screen

mail examples

navi mail --latest --to "[e-mail]" --subject "This is my subject line" 

Send a Special note to support automation

navi mail --to "[e-mail]" --subject "navi automation note" --message "Download Finished"

Send the output of a Navi command using --message

navi mail --to "[e-mail]" --subject "WAS Report" --message "`navi was --sd 35b54d95-f1b5-40f1-a98e-4f4c82a2a719`"

Scan Commands

• change Change Ownership
• create Quickly Scan a Target
• details Display Scan Details
• hosts Display Hosts found by a scan
• latest Display the Latest scan information
• pause Pause a running Scan
• resume Resume a paused Scan
• start Start a valid Scan
• status Get Scan Status
• stop Stop a Running Scan

Change Scanner Ownership

First See what scans a user owns

navi scan change --who "[e-mail]"

Then tansfer the scans owned by User A to User B

navi scan change --owner "[e-mail]" --new "[e-mail]"

Create a Scan

navi scan create 192.168.128.1

navi scan create 192.168.128.0/24

• Choose your scan type: Basic or Discovery
• Pick your scanner by ID: scanners will be displayed
• Scan will immediately kick off

Control your scans

navi scan pause 13

navi scan resume 13

navi scan stop 13

navi scan start 13

Find Available scanners

navi display -scanners

Find details of a certain scan

navi scan details 13

Create 100s of Webapp Scans from a CSV File

To Receive a file for Navi to use you must push the file to the container.
Netcat is installed on the container to do this, or you can use the 'listen'
command to accomplish this.

navi was scan <your_csv_file.csv> -file

• Choose your Scan type : Webapp Overview/Webapp Scan/SSL Scan/Config Scan
• Choose your scanner: A list will be displayed
• Choose The Owner of your Scan: A list of owners will be displayed
• Scans will be created but not started.

Getting Data into the Docker Container

From the container - Prepare your container to receive a file

navi listen

or

nc -l -p 8000 > yourfilename.csv

From the computer with the file - Send the file

nc containerhostIP 8000 < yourfilename.csv