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ci: add ThreatCrush security scan #1

ci: add ThreatCrush security scan

ci: add ThreatCrush security scan #1

# Managed by sh1pt Actions Fleet
# pack: threatcrush-scan@1.1.0
# install: sh1pt-actions-store
# hash: sha256:8b7430185637af9aea9bef6223b7ed1754a7f1c5e0d78ad058d47832a1ac46d3
name: threatcrush security scan
on:
pull_request:
permissions:
contents: read
pull-requests: write
security-events: write
jobs:
scan:
name: Scan for credentials and vulnerable patterns
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 15
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: "20"
# An unretried `npm i -g` is a network call to a registry that decides
# whether a security gate runs at all. Retry before giving up; a
# transient registry blip is not a security signal and should not read
# like one.
- name: Install ThreatCrush
run: |
for attempt in 1 2 3; do
if npm install -g "@profullstack/threatcrush@latest"; then
exit 0
fi
delay=$((attempt * 10))
echo "::warning::ThreatCrush install attempt ${attempt}/3 failed; retrying in ${delay}s"
sleep "${delay}"
done
echo "::error::ThreatCrush install failed after 3 attempts"
exit 1
# Recorded into every run log so a release that changes the interface
# shows up immediately, rather than silently scoring zero.
- name: Record the CLI interface
run: |
threatcrush --version || true
threatcrush scan --help || true
# Which interface does the installed CLI actually have?
#
# Determined up front rather than inferred from an exit code, because
# exit codes cannot tell the two failures apart. `0.2.2` has no
# `--format`: the scan died with `error: unknown option '--format'` and
# commander exited 1 — the same code the CLI uses for "findings at or
# above --fail-on". Read as a result, that produced a green check and a
# "0 findings" comment on a repository nothing had scanned.
- name: Detect the CLI output interface
id: iface
run: |
if threatcrush scan --help 2>&1 | grep -q -- '--format'; then
echo "native=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Native SARIF output available."
else
echo "native=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::notice::CLI $(threatcrush --version 2>/dev/null || echo unknown) predates --format; converting terminal output instead."
fi
- name: Scan
id: scan
run: |
set -o pipefail
FAIL_ON=""
SCAN_PATH="."
code=0
if [ "${{ steps.iface.outputs.native }}" = "true" ]; then
ARGS=(scan "$SCAN_PATH" --format sarif --output threatcrush.sarif)
if [ -n "$FAIL_ON" ]; then
ARGS+=(--fail-on "$FAIL_ON")
fi
threatcrush "${ARGS[@]}" || code=$?
else
# Compatibility path for CLIs older than native SARIF. The
# converter fails closed: if it cannot recognise the output it
# exits non-zero and writes nothing, so an unparseable scan can
# never arrive downstream looking like a clean one.
threatcrush scan "$SCAN_PATH" 2>&1 | tee threatcrush-output.txt || true
PREFIX=""
if [ "$SCAN_PATH" != "." ]; then
# Paths in terminal output are relative to the scan root. Left
# unprefixed they resolve to nothing in the repository view, and
# every finding reads as out-of-scope.
PREFIX="$SCAN_PATH"
fi
python3 .github/threatcrush-to-sarif.py \
--input threatcrush-output.txt \
--output threatcrush.sarif \
--path-prefix "$PREFIX" \
--tool-version "$(threatcrush --version 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)" \
--fail-on "$FAIL_ON" || code=$?
fi
# The SARIF file is the evidence that a scan happened, and it is the
# only evidence worth trusting. An exit code says what the process
# thought; the file says what it produced. Absent the file there is
# nothing to report, and reporting nothing as "no findings" is the
# failure this whole workflow is arranged to avoid.
if [ ! -s threatcrush.sarif ]; then
echo "status=error" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::error::ThreatCrush produced no SARIF (exit ${code}) — this diff was NOT scanned"
exit 1
fi
case "$code" in
0) echo "status=clean" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ;;
# Exit 1 *with* a SARIF file is the documented "findings at or
# above --fail-on" result. Without one it was caught above. The CLI
# only returns 1 when --fail-on was passed, so propagate it: a gate
# that records the finding and then lets the job pass is not a gate.
1)
echo "status=findings" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
exit 1
;;
*)
echo "status=error" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::error::ThreatCrush scan failed with exit code ${code} — results may be incomplete"
exit "$code"
;;
esac
# Reached only when the scan step already failed the job. The empty run
# exists so the upload does not error on a missing file and bury the real
# cause; it is not a result. The scan step has already set status=error,
# so the report says NOT RUN rather than rendering this as a clean scan.
- name: Ensure SARIF exists
if: always()
run: |
if [ ! -f threatcrush.sarif ]; then
cat > threatcrush.sarif <<'JSON'
{
"version": "2.1.0",
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oasis-tcs/sarif-spec/master/Schemata/sarif-schema-2.1.0.json",
"runs": [{ "tool": { "driver": { "name": "ThreatCrush", "rules": [] } }, "results": [] }]
}
JSON
fi
- name: Upload to the Security tab
if: always() && 'true' == 'true'
continue-on-error: true
uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
with:
sarif_file: threatcrush.sarif
category: threatcrush
- name: Build the report
if: always()
run: |
python3 << 'PYEOF'
import json, os
status = os.environ.get("SCAN_STATUS", "")
try:
with open("threatcrush.sarif") as handle:
results = json.load(handle)["runs"][0]["results"]
except Exception as err:
results = None
print(f"::warning::could not read SARIF: {err}")
lines = ["## ThreatCrush Security Scan", ""]
# Fail closed: render findings only on positive evidence that a scan
# completed. Testing for `status == "error"` was fail-open and got
# caught immediately — when the capability check failed, the scan
# step was *skipped*, so `status` was the empty string rather than
# "error", and the comment cheerfully reported "0 findings" for a
# scan that never started. Any state that is not a known-good
# outcome is NOT RUN.
if status not in ("clean", "findings") or results is None:
# Never render "no issues found" for a scan that did not finish.
# An unexamined diff is not a clean one, and the two are
# indistinguishable to whoever reads the comment.
lines += [
"**NOT RUN** — the scan did not complete, so this diff was not examined.",
"This is not a clean result. See the job log.",
]
else:
counts = {"error": 0, "warning": 0, "note": 0}
for result in results:
level = result.get("level", "warning")
if level in counts:
counts[level] += 1
lines.append(f"**{len(results)}** finding(s)")
lines.append("")
if results:
badges = []
if counts["error"]:
badges.append(f"**HIGH/CRITICAL**: {counts['error']}")
if counts["warning"]:
badges.append(f"**MEDIUM**: {counts['warning']}")
if counts["note"]:
badges.append(f"**LOW**: {counts['note']}")
if badges:
lines += [" | ".join(badges), ""]
lines += ["| Severity | Rule | Location |", "|---|---|---|"]
for result in results[:50]:
location = result["locations"][0]["physicalLocation"]
uri = location["artifactLocation"]["uri"]
line_no = location.get("region", {}).get("startLine", 1)
label = {"error": "HIGH", "warning": "MEDIUM", "note": "LOW"}.get(
result.get("level", "warning"), "INFO"
)
lines.append(f"| {label} | `{result.get('ruleId','?')}` | `{uri}`:{line_no} |")
if len(results) > 50:
# Say so. A silent truncation reads as "that was everything".
lines += ["", f"_…and {len(results) - 50} more. Full results in the Security tab._"]
lines += ["", "Snippets are redacted; ThreatCrush never prints matched credential material."]
else:
lines.append("No findings.")
with open(os.environ["RUNNER_TEMP"] + "/threatcrush-comment.md", "w") as handle:
handle.write("\n".join(lines) + "\n")
PYEOF
env:
SCAN_STATUS: ${{ steps.scan.outputs.status }}
- name: Write report to job summary
if: always()
run: cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/threatcrush-comment.md" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" 2>/dev/null || true
- name: Upload SARIF artifact
if: always()
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: threatcrush-sarif
path: threatcrush.sarif
retention-days: 30
# Best-effort. `pull_request` gives fork PRs a read-only token, so this
# 403s on fork submissions — the report is in the job summary either way,
# and the scan's pass/fail is decided by the scan step, not by whether a
# comment posted. Deliberately NOT switching to pull_request_target to
# get a writable token: that event runs with repository secrets in scope
# against a checkout of untrusted contributor code.
- name: Comment on PR
if: always() && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository && github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]'
continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
script: |
const fs = require('fs');
let body;
try {
body = fs.readFileSync(`${process.env.RUNNER_TEMP}/threatcrush-comment.md`, 'utf8');
} catch {
body = '## ThreatCrush Security Scan\n\nScan completed but the report could not be read.';
}
try {
const { data: comments } = await github.rest.issues.listComments({
issue_number: context.issue.number,
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
});
const existing = comments.find(
(c) => c.user.type === 'Bot' && c.body.includes('ThreatCrush Security Scan'),
);
if (existing) {
await github.rest.issues.updateComment({
comment_id: existing.id,
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
body,
});
} else {
await github.rest.issues.createComment({
issue_number: context.issue.number,
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
body,
});
}
} catch (err) {
core.warning(
`Could not post PR comment (status ${err.status ?? 'unknown'}): ${err.message}. ` +
'Findings are in the job summary.',
);
}