GitHub Action for Orca Shift Left Security
More info can be found in the official Orca Shift Left Security documentation
name: Sample Orca Container Image Scan Workflow
on:
# Scan for each push event on your protected branch. If you have a different branch configured, please adjust the configuration accordingly by replacing 'main'.
push:
branches: [ "main" ]
# NOTE: To enable scanning for pull requests, uncomment the section below.
#pull_request:
#branches: [ "main" ]
# NOTE: To schedule a daily scan at midnight, uncomment the section below.
#schedule:
#- cron: '0 0 * * *'
jobs:
orca-container_scan:
name: Orca Container Image Scan
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
PROJECT_KEY: <project key> # Set the desired project to run the cli scanning with
steps:
# Checkout your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
- name: Checkout Repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Run Orca Container Image Scan
uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-container-image-action@v1
with:
api_token: ${{ secrets.ORCA_SECURITY_API_TOKEN }}
project_key: ${{ env.PROJECT_KEY }}
image: <image to scan>
output:
"results/"
Variable | Example Value | Description | Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
api_token | Orca API Token used for Authentication | String | Yes | N/A | |
project_key | my-project-key | Project Key name | String | Yes | N/A |
image | redis:latest | Image name and tag to scan | String | Yes | N/A |
format | json | Format for displaying the results | String | No | cli |
output | results/ | Output directory for scan results | String | No | N/A |
no_color | false | Disable color output | Boolean | No | false |
exit_code | 10 | Exit code for failed execution due to policy violations | Integer | No | 3 |
silent | false | Disable logs and warnings output | Boolean | No | false |
console_output | json | Prints results to console in the provided format (only when --output is provided) | String | No | cli |
config | config.json | Path to configuration file (json, yaml or toml) | String | No | N/A |
disable_secret | true | Disables the secret detection scanning | Boolean | No | false |
exceptions_filepath | n/a | Exceptions YAML filepath. (File should be mounted) | String | No | false |
hide_vulnerabilities | n/a | Do not show detailed view of the vulnerabilities findings | Boolean | No | false |
num_cpu | 10 | Number of logical CPUs to be used for secret scanning (default 10) | Integer | No | 10 |
show_failed_issues_only | n/a | Show only failed issues | Boolean | No | false |
custom_secret_controls | custom_rules.yaml | Path to custom secret controls file | String | No | N/A |
tar_archive | n/a | Scan a tar archived image. Input should be the path of the image .tar file | Boolean | No | false |
oci | n/a | Scan an OCI image | Boolean | No | false |
skip_remote_lookup | false | Do not perform remote lookups for dependency information during the scan. | Boolean | No | false |
display_name | custom-display-name | Scan log display name (on Orca platform) | String | No | N/A |
hide_skipped_vulnerabilities | false | Filter out skipped vulnerabilities from result | Boolean | No | false |
max_secret | 10 | Set the maximum secrets that can be found, when reaching this number secret scan will stop | Integer | No | 10000 |
exclude_paths | ./notToBeScanned/,example.tf | List of paths to be excluded from scan (comma-separated) | String | No | N/A |
dependency_tree | false | Show dependency origin tree of vulnerable packages | Boolean | No | false |
debug | true | Debug mode | Boolean | No | false |
log_path | results/ | The directory path to specify where the logs should be written to on debug mode. | String | No | working dir |
disable-active-verification | true | Disable active verification of secrets | Boolean | No | false |
By default, the scan output is displayed on the console, but you can choose to save the output to a specific directory as a file. You can specify the output directory using the output
option as desribed in the Inputs section.
The output file name is following the format of image<.output_format_extension>
.
For instance:
Output format | Output directory | Output file path |
---|---|---|
table | results/ | results/image |
json | results/ | results/image.json |
sarif | results/ | results/image.sarif |
If you have GitHub code scanning available you can use Orca Shift Left Security as a scanning tool
NOTE: Code scanning is available for all public repositories. Code scanning is also available in private repositories owned by organizations that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud and have a license for GitHub Advanced Security.
Configuration:
name: Image Build, Scan and Upload Sarif
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
build-cli:
name: build-cli
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
security-events: write
env:
IMAGE_NAME: <image name>
PROJECT_KEY: <project key> # Set the desired project to run the cli scanning with
steps:
# checks-out your repository under $GitHub_WORKSPACE, so your workflow can access it.
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# Build your docker image, that is going to be scanned in the next step
- name: Docker Image Build
run: docker build -t $IMAGE_NAME .
- name: Run Orca Container Image Scan
uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-container-image-action@v1
id: orcasecurity_container_image_scan
with:
api_token: ${{ secrets.ORCA_SECURITY_API_TOKEN }}
project_key: ${{ env.PROJECT_KEY }}
image: <image to scan>
format: "sarif"
output:
"results/"
- name: Upload SARIF file
uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
if: ${{ always() && steps.orcasecurity_container_image_scan.outputs.exit_code != 1 }}
with:
sarif_file: results/image.sarif
The results list can be found on the security tab of your GitHub project and should look like the following image
An entry should describe the error and in which line it occurred