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
  • Inputs
• Annotations
• Upload SARIF report

Usage

Workflow

name: Sample Orca FS 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-fs-scan:
    name: Orca fs 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@v4

      - name: Run Orca FS Scan
        uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-fs-action@v1
        with:
          api_token: ${{ secrets.ORCA_SECURITY_API_TOKEN }}
          project_key: ${{ env.PROJECT_KEY }}
          path:
            # scanning the entire repository
            "."

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	sub-dir	Path to scan	String	Yes	N/A
format	json	Format for displaying the results	String	No	cli
output	results/	Output directory for scan results	String	No	N/A
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_annotations	true	show github annotations on pull requests	Boolean	No	true
disable_secret	true	Disables the secret detection scanning	Boolean	No	false
exceptions_filepath	n/a	exceptions YAML filepath. (File should be mounted)	String	No	false
hide_vulnerabilities	n/a	do not show detailed view of the vulnerabilities findings	Boolean	No	false
custom_secret_controls	custom_rules.yaml	path to custom secret controls file	String	No	N/A
num_cpu	10	Number of logical CPUs to be used for secret scanning (default 10)	Integer	No	10
show_failed_issues_only	n/a	show only failed issues	Boolean	No	false
display_name	custom-display-name	Scan log display name (on Orca platform)	String	No	N/A
hide_skipped_vulnerabilities	false	Filter out skipped vulnerabilities from result	Boolean	No	false
exclude_paths	./notToBeScanned/,example.tf	List of paths to be excluded from scan (comma-separated)	String	No	N/A
max_secret	10	Set the maximum secrets that can be found, when reaching this number secret scan will stop	Integer	No	10000
dependency_tree	false	Show dependency origin tree of vulnerable packages	Boolean	No	false
security_checks	secret	List of security issues to detect (comma-separated)	String	No	vulns,secret
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 dir
disable_active_verification	true	Disable active verification of secrets	Boolean	No	false

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-fs_scan:
    name: Orca FS 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@v4

      - name: Run Orca FS Scan
        id: orcasecurity_fs_scan
        uses: orcasecurity/shiftleft-fs-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@v3
        if: ${{ always() && steps.orcasecurity_fs_scan.outputs.exit_code != 1 }}
        with:
          sarif_file: results/file_system.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