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Polscan

Zero-setup SSH-based scanner with extensive visualizations for Debian server inventory, policy compliance and vulnerabilities

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0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

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polscan

polscan (short for "Policy Scanner")

  • Makes your DevOps server configuration/security/automation policies explicit
  • Easily detects configuration drift (Puppet 2/3/4)
  • Provides details on package updates (Debian, PHP, Gem, CVEs via debsecan)
  • Provides basic security checks (SSH, NFS, sysctl)
  • Explains policies by
    • linking references
    • having reasonable descriptions
    • suggesting quick fixes
    • referencing to security standards
  • Agent less scanner with zero setup, no dependencies: Bash 4.2, SSH
  • Scales up to at least 2000 hosts * 50 scanners ~ 100k findings

Policies are implemented by small shell snippets and thus polscan is easily extensible by your own specific policies. To make it easy to use it comes with host discovery solutions for typical automation setups (Chef, Puppet, MCollective).

Features

Detecting automation issues...

Product | Host Discovery | Resource Coverage ----------- | -------------- | ----------------- kube-bench | y | kube-bench results per host Puppet2/3/4 | y | Mounts, Users, SSH Keys, ulimit, sysctl, sudoers, 3rd party APT repos, Crons Chef | y | % Ansible | y | % SaltStack | y | % Mcollective | y | %

Detecting package issues...

Providers | Detection | Upgrade Check | Error Check | CVE Check --------- | --------- | ------------- | ----------- | --------- Helm2 | yes | no | apt | % | yes | yes dpkg | % | % | yes | yes (debsecan) Gem | yes | yes | PECL | yes | yes | PIP | yes | yes | CPAN | no | NPM | no |

Collects inventories for

  • kubernetes clusters (node count, sizing)
  • NTP / DNS Servers
  • OS Releases, Kernel Version
  • External IPs, IPv6 Adresses
  • 3rd party APT repos used
  • CPU-RAM size, CPU type, Server type
  • RAID Vendor ...

Graphs network topologies

  • TCP Connections
  • Remote FS Mounts
  • Nginx Upstreams / Apache ProxyPass
  • SSH Key Equivalencies
  • Network Routes

Provides vulnerabilities statistics per CVE using debsecan.

Screenshots

Overview Page

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Host Map per Finding Type

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Visualizing Network Connections

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Note: polscan is intentionally limited to Debian and for simplicity tries not to implement any distro-specific dependencies.

Running the Scanner

polscan keeps results on a daily basis so it makes sense to set up a daily cron.

Or just run it from the source directory

./polscan                          # To re-scan all hosts
./polscan -l 'server1 server2'     # To scan specific hosts

./polscan -t systemd-no-failed.sh               # Test scanner on all hosts
./polscan -t systemd-no-failed.sh -l server1    # Test scanner on single host
./polscan -t all -l server1                     # Test results on single host

./polscan -r 2017-10-09		# Recreate result JSON

Running the GUI

Start the GUI server with

 npm start

Related Skills

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GitHub Stars54
CategoryDevelopment
Updated3mo ago
Forks15

Languages

JavaScript

Security Score

82/100

Audited on Dec 9, 2025

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