Listing Open Ports in a Host Scan

View details about the open ports that were detected on a specific Compute instance that was scanned.

Ports that are unintentionally left open might be a potential attack vector to your cloud resources,or enable hackers to exploit other vulnerabilities.

  1. On the Scanning reports list page, select the scan that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the scan, see Listing Host Scans.
  2. Select Open ports.
    • The first panel shows the number of open ports that were detected on each virtual network interface card (VNIC) in this Compute instance.

      A VNIC (virtual network interface card)  enables an instance to connect to a specific VCN (virtual cloud network) . To view details about a VNIC, hover your cursor over the chart.

    • The second panel shows the specific port numbers that were detected in this Compute instance.
  3. (Optional) Select one or more VNIC(s) to show only those ports that were detected on the selected VNICs.