Gitlab CI

Integrate KICS with GitLab CI

You can integrate KICS into your GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

This provides you the ability to run KICS scans in your GitLab repositories and streamline vulnerabilities and misconfiguration checks to your infrastructure as code (IaC).

Including Template

You can integrate KICS into your pipeline by including our versioned template in your gitlabci.yaml:

include:
  - remote: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/checkmarx/kics/master/examples/gitlab/KICS.v1.gitlabci.yaml

Full Example

image: alpine

before_script:
  - apk add --no-cache libc6-compat curl
  - DATETIME="`date '+%H:%M'`"
  - TAG=`curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/Checkmarx/kics/releases/latest" | grep '"tag_name":' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'`
  - echo "${DATETIME} - INF latest tag is $TAG"
  - VERSION=`echo $TAG | sed -r 's/^.{1}//'`
  - echo "${DATETIME} - INF version is $VERSION"
  - echo "${DATETIME} - INF downloading latest kics binaries kics_${VERSION}_linux_x64.tar.gz"
  - wget -q -c "https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/releases/download/${TAG}/kics_${VERSION}_linux_x64.tar.gz" -O - | tar -xz --directory /usr/bin &>/dev/null

stages:
  - kics

kics-scan:
  stage: kics
  script:
    - kics scan --no-progress -q /usr/bin/assets/queries -p ${PWD} -o ${PWD} --report-formats json --output-name kics-results
  artifacts:
    name: kics-results.json
    paths:
      - kics-results.json
    when: always

---

Example Results

When your pipeline executes, it will run this job. If KICS finds any issues, it will fail the build.

Pipeline Failure

Pipeline Success

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Using GitLab SAST Reports

image:
    name: checkmarx/kics:latest
    entrypoint: ['']

stages:
  - kics

kics-scan:
  stage: kics
  script:
    - kics scan -q /app/bin/assets/queries -p ${PWD} --ignore-on-exit all --report-formats glsast -o ${PWD} --output-name kics-results
  artifacts:
    reports:
      sast: gl-sast-kics-results.json
    when: always

Example results

Pipeline SAST report integration