Even though it seems a stupid thing there have been times when I have to upload Nessus reports to an excel spreadsheet to play with the data and report a executive summary of all the vulns. I putting this post as a personal reference with the hope that sometimes it will help someone.
1. Export the Nessus report to a .nesssus (v1) file
2. Convert the nessus report to a nbe file with the following command
/opt/nessus/bin/nessus --dot-nessus NESSUS_REPORT.nessus -i "REPORT_NAME" -o REPORT_Converted.nbe
3. Download the python script developed by tssci-security. You can find it
4. Run the script using the following commmand
./tissynbe.py -f REPORTNAME-Converted.nbe -o REPORTNAME.csv
Note: An update on this shit. I no longer use that terrible script to import nessus results to an excel file. I use the clean import excel provided by a nice guy on the Tenable blog. Here is the link to the discussion board: https://discussions.nessus.org/thread/1900 (Nessus 4.2 Import Clean.xlsx)
Here is the link to the file: https://discussions.nessus.org/servlet/JiveServlet/download/4424-1182/Nessus%204.2%20Import%20Clean.xlsx
