You can run `gosec` as a GitHub action as follows:
```yaml
name: Run Gosec
on:
push:
branches:
- master
pull_request:
branches:
- master
jobs:
tests:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
GO111MODULE: on
steps:
- name: Checkout Source
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run Gosec Security Scanner
uses: securego/gosec@master
with:
args: ./...
```
### Integrating with code scanning
You can [integrate third-party code analysis tools](https://docs.github.com/en/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/integrating-with-code-scanning) with GitHub code scanning by uploading data as SARIF files.
The workflow shows an example of running the `gosec` as a step in a GitHub action workflow which outputs the `results.sarif` file. The workflow then uploads the `results.sarif` file to GitHub using the `upload-sarif` action.
```yaml
name: "Security Scan"
# Run workflow each time code is pushed to your repository and on a schedule.
# The scheduled workflow runs every at 00:00 on Sunday UTC time.
on:
push:
schedule:
- cron: '0 0 * * 0'
jobs:
tests:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
GO111MODULE: on
steps:
- name: Checkout Source
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run Gosec Security Scanner
uses: securego/gosec@master
with:
# we let the report trigger content trigger a failure using the GitHub Security features.
Gosec can be configured to only run a subset of rules, to exclude certain file
paths, and produce reports in different formats. By default all rules will be
run against the supplied input files. To recursively scan from the current
directory you can supply `./...` as the input argument.
### Available rules
- G101: Look for hard coded credentials
- G102: Bind to all interfaces
- G103: Audit the use of unsafe block
- G104: Audit errors not checked
- G106: Audit the use of ssh.InsecureIgnoreHostKey
- G107: Url provided to HTTP request as taint input
- G108: Profiling endpoint automatically exposed on /debug/pprof
- G109: Potential Integer overflow made by strconv.Atoi result conversion to int16/32
- G110: Potential DoS vulnerability via decompression bomb
- G201: SQL query construction using format string
- G202: SQL query construction using string concatenation
- G203: Use of unescaped data in HTML templates
- G204: Audit use of command execution
- G301: Poor file permissions used when creating a directory
- G302: Poor file permissions used with chmod
- G303: Creating tempfile using a predictable path
- G304: File path provided as taint input
- G305: File traversal when extracting zip/tar archive
- G306: Poor file permissions used when writing to a new file
- G307: Deferring a method which returns an error
- G401: Detect the usage of DES, RC4, MD5 or SHA1
- G402: Look for bad TLS connection settings
- G403: Ensure minimum RSA key length of 2048 bits
- G404: Insecure random number source (rand)
- G501: Import blocklist: crypto/md5
- G502: Import blocklist: crypto/des
- G503: Import blocklist: crypto/rc4
- G504: Import blocklist: net/http/cgi
- G505: Import blocklist: crypto/sha1
- G601: Implicit memory aliasing of items from a range statement
### Retired rules
- G105: Audit the use of math/big.Int.Exp - [CVE is fixed](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15184)
### Selecting rules
By default, gosec will run all rules against the supplied file paths. It is however possible to select a subset of rules to run via the `-include=` flag,
or to specify a set of rules to explicitly exclude using the `-exclude=` flag.
```bash
# Run a specific set of rules
$ gosec -include=G101,G203,G401 ./...
# Run everything except for rule G303
$ gosec -exclude=G303 ./...
```
### CWE Mapping
Every issue detected by `gosec` is mapped to a [CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration)](http://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html) which describes in more generic terms the vulnerability. The exact mapping can be found [here](https://github.com/securego/gosec/blob/master/issue.go#L50).
### Configuration
A number of global settings can be provided in a configuration file as follows:
```JSON
{
"global": {
"nosec": "enabled",
"audit": "enabled"
}
}
```
-`nosec`: this setting will overwrite all `#nosec` directives defined throughout the code base
-`audit`: runs in audit mode which enables addition checks that for normal code analysis might be too nosy
```bash
# Run with a global configuration file
$ gosec -conf config.json .
```
Also some rules accept configuration. For instance on rule `G104`, it is possible to define packages along with a list
of functions which will be skipped when auditing the not checked errors:
gosec will fetch automatically the dependencies of the code which is being analyzed when go module is turned on (e.g.`GO111MODULE=on`). If this is not the case,
the dependencies need to be explicitly downloaded by running the `go get -d` command before the scan.
### Excluding test files and folders
gosec will ignore test files across all packages and any dependencies in your vendor directory.
The scanning of test files can be enabled with the following flag:
```bash
gosec -tests ./...
```
Also additional folders can be excluded as follows:
As with all automated detection tools, there will be cases of false positives. In cases where gosec reports a failure that has been manually verified as being safe,
it is possible to annotate the code with a `#nosec` comment.
The annotation causes gosec to stop processing any further nodes within the
AST so can apply to a whole block or more granularly to a single expression.
```go
import "md5" // #nosec
func main(){
/* #nosec */
if x > y {
h := md5.New() // this will also be ignored
}
}
```
When a specific false positive has been identified and verified as safe, you may wish to suppress only that single rule (or a specific set of rules)
within a section of code, while continuing to scan for other problems. To do this, you can list the rule(s) to be suppressed within
the `#nosec` annotation, e.g: `/* #nosec G401 */` or `// #nosec G201 G202 G203`
In some cases you may also want to revisit places where `#nosec` annotations
have been used. To run the scanner and ignore any `#nosec` annotations you
can do the following:
```bash
gosec -nosec=true ./...
```
### Build tags
gosec is able to pass your [Go build tags](https://golang.org/pkg/go/build/) to the analyzer.
They can be provided as a comma separated list as follows:
**Note:** gosec generates the [generic issue import format](https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/analysis/generic-issue/) for SonarQube, and a report has to be imported into SonarQube using `sonar.externalIssuesReportPaths=path/to/gosec-report.json`.
## Development
### Build
You can build the binary with:
```bash
make
```
### Note on Sarif Types Generation
Install the tool with :
```bash
go get -u github.com/a-h/generate/cmd/schema-generate
Most of the MarshallJSON/UnmarshalJSON are removed except the one for PropertyBag which is handy to inline the additionnal properties. The rest can be removed.
The URI,ID, UUID, GUID were renamed so it fits the Golang convention defined [here](https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go#L700)
### Tests
You can run all unit tests using:
```bash
make test
```
### Release
You can create a release by tagging the version as follows:
``` bash
git tag v1.0.0 -m "Release version v1.0.0"
git push origin v1.0.0
```
The GitHub [release workflow](.github/workflows/release.yml) triggers immediately after the tag is pushed upstream. This flow will
release the binaries using the [goreleaser](https://goreleaser.com/actions/) action and then it will build and publish the docker image into Docker Hub.
### Docker image
You can also build locally the docker image by using the command:
```bash
make image
```
You can run the `gosec` tool in a container against your local Go project. You only have to mount the project
into a volume as follows:
```bash
docker run --rm -it -w /<PROJECT>/ -v <YOURPROJECTPATH>/<PROJECT>:/<PROJECT> securego/gosec /<PROJECT>/...
```
**Note:** the current working directory needs to be set with `-w` option in order to get successfully resolved the dependencies from go module file
### Generate TLS rule
The configuration of TLS rule can be generated from [Mozilla's TLS ciphers recommendation](https://statics.tls.security.mozilla.org/server-side-tls-conf.json).
First you need to install the generator tool:
```bash
go get github.com/securego/gosec/v2/cmd/tlsconfig/...
```
You can invoke now the `go generate` in the root of the project:
```bash
go generate ./...
```
This will generate the `rules/tls_config.go` file which will contain the current ciphers recommendation from Mozilla.
## Who is using gosec?
This is a [list](USERS.md) with some of the gosec's users.
