AI Atlas

Developer Tools · Security

Nessus MCP Server logo

Nessus MCP Server

Cyreslab-AI/nessus-mcp-server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with the Tenable Nessus vulnerability scanner. This server allows AI assistants to perform vulnerability scanning and analysis through the MCP protocol.

View on GitHub1

Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nessus": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "/path/to/nessus-mcp-server/build/index.js"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NESSUS_URL": "<NESSUS_URL>",
        "NESSUS_ACCESS_KEY": "<NESSUS_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "NESSUS_SECRET_KEY": "<NESSUS_SECRET_KEY>",
        "NESSUS_ALLOW_SELF_SIGNED": "<NESSUS_ALLOW_SELF_SIGNED>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

NESSUS_URLNESSUS_ACCESS_KEYNESSUS_SECRET_KEYNESSUS_ALLOW_SELF_SIGNED
GitHub stars
1
Author
@Cyreslab-AI
Category
Developer Tools, Security
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

About Nessus MCP Server

It talks to a real Nessus instance over its REST API using API-key authentication. If no NESSUS_URL/NESSUS_ACCESS_KEY/NESSUS_SECRET_KEY are set, it falls back to a self-contained mock mode for local development and testing.

Features

  • Vulnerability Scanning: Start and monitor vulnerability scans against specified targets

  • Scan Management: List, track, and retrieve results from vulnerability scans

  • Vulnerability Analysis: Search for and get detailed information about specific vulnerabilities

  • Mock Mode: Fully functional mock mode for testing without a Nessus API key

Tools (7)

  • list_scan_templates

    List available Nessus scan templates

  • start_scan

    Start a new vulnerability scan against a target

  • get_scan_status

    Check the status of a running scan

  • get_scan_results

    Get the results of a completed scan

  • list_scans

    List all scans and their status

  • get_vulnerability_details

    Get detailed information about a specific vulnerability

  • search_vulnerabilities

    Search for vulnerabilities by keyword

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

View all
Claude Desktop logo

Claude Desktop

Desktop · Freemium · Proprietary

Anthropic's official Claude AI desktop application. Supports MCP servers to extend functionality.

WindowsMacOS

Related MCP servers

More servers
Playwright logo

Playwright

microsoft/playwright

72.2k

Playwright is a framework for web automation and testing. It drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API — in your tests, in your scripts, and as a tool for AI agents.

Developer Tools
repomix logo

repomix

yamadashy/repomix

15.2k

Repomix is a tool that packs a codebase into an AI-friendly format, supporting local and remote repository processing and providing code compression, security checks and multiple output formats.

Developer Tools
UI-TARS-desktop logo

UI-TARS-desktop

bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop

12.9k

TARS is ByteDance's multimodal AI agent stack, shipping two projects: Agent TARS (a CLI and Web UI agent built on MCP) and UI-TARS-desktop (a desktop GUI agent).

Developer Tools
blender logo

blender

ahujasid/blender-mcp

10.6k

formerly blender-mcp — the PyPI package is now mcp-for-blender. Existing setups keep working; no config change is required. Read more.

Developer Tools
Playwright Browser Automation logo

Playwright Browser Automation

microsoft/playwright-mcp

9.2k

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides browser automation capabilities using Playwright. This server enables LLMs to interact with web pages through structured accessibility snapshots, bypassing the need for screenshots or visually-tuned models.

Developer Tools
2344 logo

2344

comet-ml/opik

7k

Opik is the open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform for AI agent tracing, LLM evaluation, prompt management, and production monitoring. Built by Comet. Apache-2.0 licensed, free to self-host the full platform, with 20,000+ GitHub stars.

Developer Tools