kics-code-scanning-playground

👋 🌎 a playground for Code Scanning 🎢

Contents

• About
• How it works
• Getting started
• Additional resources

About

This is a template repo, demonstrating GitHub's Code Scanning capability, using KICS to generate a "code scanning alert" in GitHub's Security tab:

How it works

• The KICS analysis workflow runs on a schedule, and on every push
• The KICS output is formatted as SARIF, using the @fjsnogueira/kics-github-action
• The SARIF report is submitted to GitHub via the github/codeql-action/upload-sarif action

Getting started

1. Register for the code scanning beta here
2. Generate a copy of this repo
3. Push a commit -- it can even be an empty commit (git commit --allow-empty)
4. Observe as a new security alert is generated

Additional resources

• SARIF example output
• SARIF specification
• microsoft/sarif-tutorials: User-friendly documentation for the SARIF file format
• SARIF Validator: View and validate your SARIF files
• Sarif.Multitool: Multi-purpose command line tool for analyzing and manipulating SARIF files
• JSON schema for the SARIF specification
• ajv-validator/ajv-cli: Command line interface for ajv, one of the fastest json schema validators
• SARIF support for code scanning
• Example workflow that runs the ESLint analysis tool
• REST API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/code-scanning
• Demo app for uploading SARIF reports to GitHub via the REST API as a GitHub App: https://github.com/swinton/github-app-upload-sarif