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Orca Shift Left Security Action

GitHub Action for Orca Shift Left Security

More info can be found in the official Orca Shift Left Security documentation

Table of Contents

Usage

Workflow

name: Sample Orca IaC 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-iac_scan:
    name: Orca IaC 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@v3

      - name: Run Orca IaC Scan
        uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-iac-action@v1
        with:
          api_token: ${{ secrets.ORCA_SECURITY_API_TOKEN }}
          project_key: ${{ env.PROJECT_KEY }}
          path:
            # scanning directories: ./terraform/ ./sub-dir/ and a file: ./Dockerfile
            "terraform,sub-dir,other-sub-dir/Dockerfile"

Inputs

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
path terraform,sub-dir,other-sub-dir/Dockerfile Paths or directories to scan (comma-separated) String Yes N/A
exclude_paths ./notToBeScanned/,example.tf List of paths to be excluded from scan (comma-separated) String No N/A
format json Format for displaying the results String No cli
output results/ Output directory for scan results String No N/A
platform Terraform,CloudFormation Limit scan to the specified list of platforms (comma-separated) String No All supported platforms
exclude_platform Terraform,CloudFormation Exclude the specified list of platforms from scan (comma-separated) String No N/A
cloud_provider aws,gcp Limit scan to the specified list of cloud providers String No All supported cloud providers
no_color false Disable color output Boolean No false
exit_code 10 Exit code for failed execution due to policy violations Integer No 3
control_timeout 30 Number of seconds the control has to execute before being canceled Integer No 60
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
show_failed_issues_only true Show only failed issues Boolean No false
show_annotations true Show github annotations on pull requests Boolean No true
custom_controls ./custom_control1/,./custom_control2 Paths to custom controls (comma-separated) String No N/A
generate_rego_input ./input.json Generates an internal representation of scanned files, which can be utilized as input for Rego policies String No N/A
include_compressed_files false Include compressed files in scan Boolean No false
max_file_size 3 Maximum file size to be scanned in MB. Bigger files will be skipped Integer No 5
terraform_vars_path /terraform-vars-path/terraform-vars.tfvars Path where terraform variables are present String No N/A
display_name custom-display-name Scan log display name (on Orca platform) String No N/A
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 directory

Annotations

After scanning, the action will add the results as annotations in a pull request:

NOTE: Annotations can be disabled by setting the "show_annotation" input to "false"

Upload SARIF report

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: Scan and upload SARIF

push:
  branches:
    - main

jobs:
  orca-iac_scan:
    name: Orca IaC Scan
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      security-events: write
    env:
      PROJECT_KEY: <project key> # Set the desired project to run the cli scanning with
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Orca IaC Scan
        id: orcasecurity_iac_scan
        uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-iac-action@v1
        with:
          api_token: ${{ secrets.ORCA_SECURITY_API_TOKEN }}
          project_key: ${{ env.PROJECT_KEY }}
          path: <path to scan>
          format: "sarif"
          output:
            "results/"
      - name: Upload SARIF file
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        if: ${{ always() && steps.orcasecurity_iac_scan.outputs.exit_code != 1 }}
        with:
          sarif_file: results/iac.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