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).

Full Example

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

stages:
    - kics

kics-scan:
    stage: kics
    script:
        - kics scan --no-progress -q /app/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

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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

📝   This feature requires Gitlab Ultimate.