Integrate KICS with Codefresh

Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS Codefresh step by Checkmarx.

You can find the KICS Codefresh step here.

Please, be aware that the KICS Codefresh step can require MEDIUM instances.

ARGUMENTS

Variable	Example Value	Description	Type	Required	Default
PROJECT_PATH	terraform/main.tf,Dockerfile	paths to a file or directories to scan, comma separated list	string	Yes	N/A
IGNORE_ON_EXIT	results	defines which kind of non-zero exits code should be ignored (all, results, errors, none)	string	No	N/A
FAIL_ON	high,medium	which kind of results should return an exit code different from 0	string	No	high,medium,low,info
TIME_OUT	75	number of seconds the query has to execute before being canceled	string	No	60
PROFILING	CPU	enables performance profiler that prints resource consumption metrics in the logs during the execution (CPU, MEM)	string	No	N/A
TYPES	Ansible,Terraform	case insensitive list of platform types to scan (Ansible, AzureResourceManager, CloudFormation, Dockerfile, Docker Compose, GRPC, GoogleDeploymentManager, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, Terraform)	string	No	All
EXCLUDE_PATHS	./shouldNotScan/*,somefile.txt	exclude paths from scan	string	No	N/A
EXCLUDE_QUERIES	e69890e6-fce5-461d-98ad-cb98318dfc96,4728cd65-a20c-49da-8b31-9c08b423e4db	exclude queries by providing the query ID; cannot be provided with query inclusion flags	string	No	N/A
EXCLUDE_CATEGORIES	Access control,Best practices	exclude categories by providing its name; cannot be provided with query inclusion flags	string	No	N/A
EXCLUDE_SEVERETIES	info,low	exclude results by providing the severity of a result	string	No	N/A
EXCLUDE_RESULTS	d4a1fa80-d9d8-450f-87c2-e1f6669c41f8	exclude results by providing the similarity ID of a result	string	No	N/A
INCLUDE_QUERIES	a227ec01-f97a-4084-91a4-47b350c1db54	include queries by providing the query ID; cannot be provided with query exclusion flags	string	No	N/A
OUTPUT_FORMATS	json,sarif	formats in which the results will be exported (all, asff, csv, cyclonedx, glsast, html, json, junit, pdf, sarif, sonarqube)	string	No	json
OUTPUT_PATH	myResults/	directory path to store reports	string	No	N/A
PAYLOAD_PATH	/tmp/mypayload.json	path to store internal representation JSON file	string	No	N/A
QUERIES_PATH	query	"example": "/tmp/mypayload.json"	string	No	./assets/queries downloaded with the binaries
VERBOSE	true	write logs to stdout too (mutually exclusive with silent)	boolean	No	false
BOM	true	include bill of materials (BoM) in results output;	boolean	No	false
DISABLE_FULL_DESCRIPTIONS	true	disable request for full descriptions and use default vulnerability descriptions	boolean	No	false
DISABLE_SECRETS	true	disable secrets scanning	boolean	No	false
SECRETS_REGEXES_PATH	./mydir/secrets-config.json	path to secrets regex rules configuration file	string	No	N/A
LIBRARIES_PATH	./myLibsDir	path to directory with libraries	string	No	N/A

EXAMPLES

RUNNING KICS

steps:
    clone:
      title: Clone a project
      type: git-clone
      repo: 'rafaela-soares/query'
      git: github
    run_kics:
          title: Scanning IaC files
          type: checkmarx/kics
          arguments:
              PROJECT_PATH: ./query

RUNNING KICS AND SAVING KICS REPORTS

🚨 Be aware that you should set IGNORE_ON_EXIT: results to be able to avoid the KICS exit code and run the step that saves the report.

GITHUB REPOSITORY

steps:
    clone:
      title: Clone a project
      type: git-clone
      repo: 'rafaela-soares/query'
      git: github
    run_kics:
          title: Scanning IaC files
          type: checkmarx/kics
          arguments:
              PROJECT_PATH: ./query
              QUERIES_PATH: ./query/alb_listening_on_http
              OUTPUT_PATH: /codefresh/volume/query/reports
              OUTPUT_FORMATS: all
              VERBOSE: true
              EXCLUDE_PATHS: ./query/alb_listening_on_http/test/negative.yaml
              TYPES: Ansible
              LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG
              PAYLOAD_PATH: /codefresh/volume/query/payload.json
              IGNORE_ON_EXIT: results
    save_reports_and_payload:
          title: Saving KICS payload and KICS reports
          type: git-commit
        arguments:
              repo: 'rafaela-soares/query'
              git: github
              working_directory: '/codefresh/volume/query'
              commit_message: saved payload and reports
              git_user_name: git-user-name
              git_user_email: git-user@email.com
              allow_empty: false
              add:
                - payload.json
                - ./reports

S3 BUCKET

steps:
    clone:
      title: Clone a project
      type: git-clone
      repo: 'rafaela-soares/query'
      git: github
    run_kics:
          title: Scanning IaC files
          type: checkmarx/kics
          arguments:
              PROJECT_PATH: ./query
              QUERIES_PATH: ./query/alb_listening_on_http
              OUTPUT_PATH: /codefresh/volume/query/reports
              OUTPUT_FORMATS: all
              VERBOSE: true
              EXCLUDE_PATHS: ./query/alb_listening_on_http/test/negative.yaml
              TYPES: Ansible
              LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG
              IGNORE_ON_EXIT: results
    save_reports_in_s3_bucket:
             title: Saving KICS reports
             image: 'amazon/aws-cli'
             working_directory: '/codefresh/volume/query'
             commands:
                 - mkdir ~/.aws
                 - touch ~/.aws/config
                 - chmod 600 ~/.aws/config
                 - echo "[default]" > ~/.aws/config
                 - echo "aws_access_key_id=${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}" >> ~/.aws/config
                 - echo "aws_secret_access_key=${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}" >> ~/.aws/config
                 - echo "aws_session_token=${AWS_SESSION_TOKEN}" >> ~/.aws/config
                 - echo "region=${AWS_REGION}" >> ~/.aws/config
                 - aws s3 cp ./reports s3://${{BUCKET_NAME}}/ --recursive