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+/* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import {describe, test, expect, testing} from '@gsa/testing';
+
+import {rendererWith, screen, wait} from 'web/utils/testing';
+
+import useLoadCapabilities from '../useLoadCapabilities';
+
+const TestComponent = () => {
+  const capabilities = useLoadCapabilities();
+  return (
+    <>
+      {capabilities &&
+        capabilities.map(capability => {
+          return (
+            <div data-testid="capability" key={capability.name}>
+              {capability.name}
+            </div>
+          );
+        })}
+    </>
+  );
+};
+
+describe('useLoadCapabilities tests', () => {
+  test('should load capabilities', async () => {
+    const capabilities = [{name: 'cap_1'}, {name: 'cap_2'}];
+    const response = {data: capabilities};
+    const gmp = {
+      user: {
+        currentCapabilities: testing.fn(() => Promise.resolve(response)),
+      },
+    };
+    const {render} = rendererWith({gmp});
+
+    render(<TestComponent />);
+
+    await wait();
+
+    expect(gmp.user.currentCapabilities).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(screen.getAllByTestId('capability').length).toEqual(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/web/hooks/useLoadCapabilities.jsx b/src/web/hooks/useLoadCapabilities.jsx
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+/* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import {useEffect, useState} from 'react';
+
+import logger from 'gmp/log';
+import Capabilities from 'gmp/capabilities/capabilities';
+
+import useGmp from '../utils/useGmp';
+
+const log = logger.getLogger('web.useLoadCapabilities');
+
+/**
+ * Hook to load the user's capabilities from the backend
+ */
+const useLoadCapabilities = () => {
+  const gmp = useGmp();
+  const [capabilities, setCapabilities] = useState();
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    gmp.user
+      .currentCapabilities()
+      .then(response => {
+        const loadedCapabilities = response.data;
+        log.debug('User capabilities', loadedCapabilities);
+        setCapabilities(loadedCapabilities);
+      })
+      .catch(rejection => {
+        if (rejection.isError()) {
+          log.error(
+            'An error occurred during fetching capabilities',
+            rejection,
+          );
+        }
+        // use empty capabilities
+        setCapabilities(new Capabilities());
+      });
+  }, [gmp.user]);
+
+  return capabilities;
+};
+
+export default useLoadCapabilities;