The Cycode Command Line Interface (CLI) is an application you can install on your local machine which can scan your locally stored repositories for any secrets or infrastructure as code misconfigurations.
This guide will guide you through both installation and usage.
- Prerequisites
- Installation
- Cycode Command
- Running a Scan
- Scan Results
- Ignoring Scan Results
- Syntax Help
- The Cycode CLI application requires Python version 3.7 or later.
- Use the
cycode auth
command to authenticate to Cycode with the CLI- Alternatively, a Cycode Client ID and Client Secret Key can be acquired using the steps from the Service Account Token and Personal Access Token pages for details on obtaining these values.
The following installation steps are applicable on both Windows and UNIX / Linux operating systems.
π Note
The following steps assume the use ofpython3
andpip3
for Python-related commands, but some systems may instead use thepython
andpip
commands, depending on your Python environmentβs configuration.
To install the Cycode CLI application on your local machine, perform the following steps:
-
Open your command line or terminal application.
-
Execute the following command:
pip3 install cycode
-
Navigate to the top directory of the local repository you wish to scan.
-
There are three methods to set the Cycode client ID and client secret:
- cycode auth (Recommended)
- cycode configure
- Add them to your environment variables
π Note
This is the recommended method for setting up your local machine to authenticate with Cycode CLI.
-
Type the following command into your terminal/command line window:
cycode auth
-
A browser window will appear, asking you to log into Cycode (as seen below):
-
Enter you login credentials on this page and log in.
-
You will eventually be taken to this page, where you will be asked to choose the business group you want to authorize Cycode with (if applicable):
π Note
This will be the default method for authenticating with the Cycode CLI.
- Click the Allow button to authorize the Cycode CLI on the chosen business group.
- Once done, you will see the following screen, if it was successfully selected:
- In the terminal/command line screen, you will see the following when exiting the browser window:
Successfully logged into cycode
π Note
If you already setup your Cycode client ID and client secret through the Linux or Windows environment variables, those credentials will take precedent over this method
-
Type the following command into your terminal/command line window:
cycode configure
You will see the following appear:
Update credentials in file (/Users/travislloyd/.cycode/credentials.yaml) cycode client id []:
-
Enter your Cycode client ID value.
cycode client id []: 7fe5346b-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-55157625c72d
-
Enter your Cycode client secret value.
cycode client secret []: c1e24929-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-8b08c1839a2e
-
If the values were entered successfully, you will see the following message:
Successfully configured CLI credentials!
If you go into the .cycode
folder under you user folder, you will find these credentials were created and placed in the credentials.yaml
file in that folder.
export CYCODE_CLIENT_ID={your Cycode ID}
export CYCODE_CLIENT_SECRET={your Cycode Secret Key}
- From the Control Panel, navigate to the System menu:
- Next, click Advanced system settings:
- In the System Properties window that opens, click the Environment Variables button:
- Create
CYCODE_CLIENT_ID
andCYCODE_CLIENT_SECRET
variables with values matching your ID and Secret Key, respectively:
Cycodeβs pre-commit hook can be set up within your local repository so that the Cycode CLI application will automatically identify any issues with your code before you commit it to your codebase.
Perform the following steps to install the pre-commit hook:
-
Install the pre-commit framework:
pip3 install pre-commit
-
Navigate to the top directory of the local repository you wish to scan.
-
Create a new YAML file named
.pre-commit-config.yaml
(include the beginning.
) in the repositoryβs top directory that contains the following:
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/cycodehq-public/cycode-cli
rev: stable
hooks:
- id: cycode
language_version: python3
stages:
- commit
-
Install Cycodeβs hook:
pre-commit install
π Note
Successful hook installation will result in the message:
Pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit
The following are the options and commands available with the Cycode CLI application:
Option | Description |
---|---|
--output [text|json|table] |
Specify the output (text /json /table ). The default is text |
-v , --verbose |
Show detailed logs |
--version |
Show the version and exit. |
--help |
Show options for given command. |
Command | Description |
---|---|
auth | Authenticates your machine to associate CLI with your Cycode account. |
configure | Initial command to authenticate your CLI client with Cycode using client ID and client secret. |
ignore | Ignore a specific value, path or rule ID |
scan | Scan content for secrets/IaC/SCA/SAST violations. You need to specify which scan type: ci /commit_history /path /repository /etc |
The Cycode CLI application offers several types of scans so that you can choose the option that best fits your case. The following are the current options and commands available:
Option | Description |
---|---|
-t, --scan-type [secret|iac|sca|sast] |
Specify the scan you wish to execute (secret /iac /sca /sast ), the default is secret |
--secret TEXT |
Specify a Cycode client secret for this specific scan execution |
--client-id TEXT |
Specify a Cycode client ID for this specific scan execution |
--show-secret BOOLEAN |
Show secrets in plain text. See Show/Hide Secrets section for more details. |
--soft-fail BOOLEAN |
Run scan without failing, always return a non-error status code. See Soft Fail section for more details. |
--severity-threshold [INFO|LOW|MEDIUM|HIGH|CRITICAL] |
Show only violations at the specified level or higher (supported for the SCA scan type only). |
--sca-scan |
Specify the SCA scan you wish to execute (package-vulnerabilities /license-compliance ). The default is both |
--monitor |
When specified, the scan results will be recorded in the knowledge graph. Please note that when working in monitor mode, the knowledge graph will not be updated as a result of SCM events (Push, Repo creation). (Supported for SCA scan type only). |
--report |
When specified, a violations report will be generated. A URL link to the report will be printed as an output to the command execution |
--help |
Show options for given command. |
Command | Description |
---|---|
commit_history | Scan all the commits history in this git repository |
path | Scan the files in the path supplied in the command |
pre_commit | Use this command to scan the content that was not committed yet |
repository | Scan git repository including its history |
A repository scan examines an entire local repository for any exposed secrets or insecure misconfigurations. This more holistic scan type looks at everything: the current state of your repository and its commit history. It will look not only for currently exposed secrets within the repository but previously deleted secrets as well.
To execute a full repository scan, execute the following:
cycode scan repository {{path}}
For example, consider a scenario in which you want to scan your repository stored in ~/home/git/codebase
. You could then execute the following:
cycode scan repository ~/home/git/codebase
The following option is available for use with this command:
Option | Description |
---|---|
-b, --branch TEXT |
Branch to scan, if not set scanning the default branch |
To scan a specific branch of your local repository, add the argument -b
(alternatively, --branch
) followed by the name of the branch you wish to scan.
Consider the previous example. If you wanted to only scan a branch named dev
, you could execute the following:
cycode scan repository ~/home/git/codebase -b dev
or:
cycode scan repository ~/home/git/codebase --branch dev
π Note
This option is only available to SCA scans.
To push scan results tied to the SCA policies found in an SCA type scan to Cycode's knowledge graph, add the argument --monitor
to the scan command.
Consider the following example. The following command will scan the repository for SCA policy violations and push them to Cycode:
cycode scan -t sca --monitor repository ~/home/git/codebase
or:
cycode scan --scan-type sca --monitor repository ~/home/git/codebase
When using this option, the scan results from this scan will appear in the knowledge graph, which can be found here.
β οΈ NOTE
You must be anowner
or anadmin
in Cycode to view the knowledge graph page.
π Note
This option is only available to SCA scans.
To push scan results tied to the SCA policies found in the Repository scan to Cycode, add the argument --report
to the scan command.
cycode scan -t sca --report repository ~/home/git/codebase
or:
cycode scan --scan-type sca --report repository ~/home/git/codebase
When using this option, the scan results from this scan will appear in the On-Demand Scans section of Cycode. To get to this page, click the link that appears after the printed results:
β οΈ NOTE
You must be anowner
or anadmin
in Cycode to view this page.
Scan Results: (scan_id: e04e06e5-6dd8-474f-b409-33bbee67270b)
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'vyper' referenced in project '': Multiple evaluation of contract address in call in vyper (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'vyper' referenced in project '': Integer bounds error in Vyper (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'pyyaml' referenced in project '': Improper Input Validation in PyYAML (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'cleo' referenced in project '': cleo is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
4 |
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'vyper' referenced in project '': Incorrect Comparison in Vyper (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'vyper' referenced in project '': Buffer Overflow in vyper (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: ./requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
Report URL: https://app.cycode.com/on-demand-scans/617ecc3d-9ff2-493e-8be8-2c1fecaf6939
The report page will look something like below:
π Note
This option is only available to SCA scans.
To scan a specific package vulnerability of your local repository, add the argument --sca-scan package-vulnerabilities
following the -t sca
or --scan-type sca
option.
Consider the previous example. If you wanted to only run an SCA scan on package vulnerabilities, you could execute the following:
cycode scan -t sca --sca-scan package-vulnerabilities repository ~/home/git/codebase
or:
cycode scan --scan-type sca --sca-scan package-vulnerabilities repository ~/home/git/codebase
π Note
This option is only available to SCA scans.
To scan a specific branch of your local repository, add the argument --sca-scan license-compliance
followed by the name of the branch you wish to scan.
Consider the previous example. If you wanted to only scan a branch named dev
, you could execute the following:
cycode scan -t sca --sca-scan license-compliance repository ~/home/git/codebase -b dev
or:
cycode scan --scan-type sca --sca-scan license-compliance repository ~/home/git/codebase
π Note
This option is only available to SCA scans.
To limit the results of the sca
scan to a specific severity threshold, add the argument --severity-threshold
to the scan command.
Consider the following example. The following command will scan the repository for SCA policy violations that have a severity of Medium or higher:
cycode scan -t sca --security-threshold MEDIUM repository ~/home/git/codebase
or:
cycode scan --scan-type sca --security-threshold MEDIUM repository ~/home/git/codebase
A path scan examines a specific local directory and all the contents within it, instead of focusing solely on a GIT repository.
To execute a directory scan, execute the following:
cycode scan path {{path}}
For example, consider a scenario in which you want to scan the directory located at ~/home/git/codebase
. You could then execute the following:
cycode scan path ~/home/git/codebase
A commit history scan is limited to a local repositoryβs previous commits, focused on finding any secrets within the commit history, instead of examining the repositoryβs current state.
To execute a commit history scan, execute the following:
cycode scan commit_history {{path}}
For example, consider a scenario in which you want to scan the commit history for a repository stored in ~/home/git/codebase
. You could then execute the following:
cycode scan commit_history ~/home/git/codebase
The following options are available for use with this command:
Option | Description |
---|---|
-r, --commit_range TEXT |
Scan a commit range in this git repository, by default cycode scans all commit history (example: HEAD~1) |
The commit history scan, by default, examines the repositoryβs entire commit history, all the way back to the initial commit. You can instead limit the scan to a specific commit range by adding the argument --commit_range
followed by the name you specify.
Consider the previous example. If you wanted to scan only specific commits on your repository, you could execute the following:
cycode scan commit_history -r {{from-commit-id}}...{{to-commit-id}} ~/home/git/codebase
OR
cycode scan commit_history --commit_range {{from-commit-id}}...{{to-commit-id}} ~/home/git/codebase
A pre-commit scan automatically identifies any issues before you commit changes to your repository. There is no need to manually execute this scan; simply configure the pre-commit hook as detailed under the Installation section of this guide.
After your install the pre-commit hook and, you may, on occasion, wish to skip scanning during a specific commit. Simply add the following to your git
command to skip scanning for a single commit:
SKIP=cycode git commit -m <your commit message>
Each scan will complete with a message stating if any issues were found or not.
If no issues are found, the scan ends with the following success message:
Good job! No issues were found!!! πππ
If an issue is found, a Found issue of type:
message appears upon completion instead:
β Found issue of type: generic-password (rule ID: ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710) in file: config/my_config.py
Secret SHA: a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0 β
0 | @@ -0,0 +1 @@
1 | +my_password = 'h3l***********350'
2 | \ No newline at end of file
In the event an issue is found, review the file in question for the specific line highlighted by the result message. Implement any changes required to resolve the issue, then execute the scan again.
In the above example, a secret was found in the file secret_test
, located in the subfolder cli
. The second part of the message shows the specific line the secret appears in, which in this case is a value assigned to googleApiKey
.
Note how the above example obscures the actual secret value, replacing most of the secret with asterisks. Scans obscure secrets by default, but you may optionally disable this feature in order to view the full secret (assuming the machine you are viewing the scan result on is sufficiently secure from prying eyes).
To disable secret obfuscation, add the --show-secret
argument to any type of scan, then assign it a 1
value to show the full secret in the result message, or 0
to hide the secret (which is done by default).
In the following example, a Path Scan is executed against the cli
subdirectory with the option enabled to display any secrets found in full:
cycode scan --show-secret=1 path ./cli
The result would then not be obfuscated:
β Found issue of type: generic-password (rule ID: ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710) in file: config/my_config.py
Secret SHA: a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0 β
0 | @@ -0,0 +1 @@
1 | +my_password = 'h3110w0r1d!@#$350'
2 | \ No newline at end of file
Utilizing the soft fail feature will not fail the CI/CD step within the pipeline if the Cycode scan finds an issue. Additionally, in case an issue occurs from Cycodeβs side, a soft fail will automatically execute to avoid interference.
Add the --soft-fail
argument to any type of scan to configure this feature, then assign a value of 1
if you want found issues to result in a failure within the CI/CD tool or 0
for scan results to have no impact (result in a success
result).
β Found issue of type: generic-password (rule ID: ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710) in file: config/my_config.py
Secret SHA: a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0 β
0 | @@ -0,0 +1 @@
1 | +my_password = 'h3l***********350'
2 | \ No newline at end of file
β Found issue of type: Resource should use non-default namespace (rule ID: bdaa88e2-5e7c-46ff-ac2a-29721418c59c) in file: ./k8s/k8s.yaml β
7 | name: secrets-file
8 | namespace: default
9 | resourceVersion: "4228"
β Found issue of type: Security vulnerability in package 'pyyaml' referenced in project 'Users/myuser/my-test-repo': Improper Input Validation in PyYAML (rule ID: d003b23a-a2eb-42f3-83c9-7a84505603e5) in file: Users/myuser/my-test-repo/requirements.txt β
1 | PyYAML~=5.3.1
2 | vyper==0.3.1
3 | cleo==1.0.0a5
β Found issue of type: Detected a request using 'http://'. This request will be unencrypted, and attackers could listen into traffic on the network and be able to obtain sensitive information. Use 'https://' instead. (rule ID: 3fbbd34b-b00d-4415-b9d9-f861c076b9f2) in file: ./requests.py β
2 |
3 | res = requests.get('http://example.com', timeout=1)
4 | print(res.content)
Ignore rules can be added to ignore specific secret values, specific SHA512 values, specific paths, and specific Cycode secret and IaC rule IDs. This will cause the scan to not alert these values. The ignore rules are written and saved locally in the ./.cycode/config.yaml
file.
β οΈ Warning
Adding values to be ignored should be done with careful consideration of the values, paths, and policies to ensure that the scans will pick up true positives. The following are the options available for thecycode ignore
command:
Option | Description |
---|---|
--by-value TEXT |
Ignore a specific value while scanning for secrets. See Ignoring a Secret Value for more details. |
--by-sha TEXT |
Ignore a specific SHA512 representation of a string while scanning for secrets. See Ignoring a Secret SHA Value for more details. |
--by-path TEXT |
Avoid scanning a specific path. Need to specify scan type. See Ignoring a Path for more details. |
--by-rule TEXT |
Ignore scanning a specific secret rule ID/IaC rule ID/SCA rule ID. See Ignoring a Secret or Iac Rule for more details. |
--by-package TEXT |
Ignore scanning a specific package version while running an SCA scan. Expected pattern - name@version . See Ignoring a Package for more details. |
-t, --scan-type [secret|iac|sca|sast] |
Specify the scan you wish to execute (secret /iac /sca /sast ), The default value is secret |
-g, --global |
Add an ignore rule and update it in the global .cycode config file |
In the following example, a pre-commit scan runs and finds the following:
β Found issue of type: generic-password (rule ID: ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710) in file: config/my_config.py
Secret SHA: a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0 β
0 | @@ -0,0 +1 @@
1 | +my_password = 'h3l***********350'
2 | \ No newline at end of file
If this is a value that is not a valid secret, then use the the cycode ignore
command to ignore the secret by its value, SHA value, specific path, or rule ID. If this is an IaC scan, then you can ignore that result by its path or rule ID.
To ignore a specific secret value, you will need to use the --by-value
flag. This will ignore the given secret value from all future scans. Use the following command to add a secret value to be ignored:
cycode ignore --by-value {{secret-value}}
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore a specific secret value is as follows:
cycode ignore --by-value h3110w0r1d!@#$350
In the example above, replace the h3110w0r1d!@#$350
value with your non-masked secret value. See the Cycode scan options for details on how to see secret values in the scan results.
To ignore a specific secret SHA value, you will need to use the --by-sha
flag. This will ignore the given secret SHA value from all future scans. Use the following command to add a secret SHA value to be ignored:
cycode ignore --by-sha {{secret-sha-value}}
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore a specific secret SHA value is as follows:
cycode ignore --by-sha a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0
In the example above, replace the a44081db3296c84b82d12a35c446a3cba19411dddfa0380134c75f7b3973bff0
value with your secret SHA value.
To ignore a specific path for either secret, IaC, or SCA scans, you will need to use the --by-path
flag in conjunction with the -t, --scan-type
flag (you must specify the scan type). This will ignore the given path from all future scans for the given scan type. Use the following command to add a path to be ignored:
cycode ignore -t {{scan-type}} --by-path {{path}}
OR
cycode ignore --scan-type {{scan-type}} --by-path {{path}}
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore a specific path for a secret is as follows:
cycode ignore -t secret --by-path ~/home/my-repo/config
In the example above, replace the ~/home/my-repo/config
value with your path value.
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore a specific path from IaC scans is as follows:
cycode ignore -t iac --by-path ~/home/my-repo/config
In the example above, replace the ~/home/my-repo/config
value with your path value.
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore a specific path from SCA scans is as follows:
cycode ignore -t sca --by-path ~/home/my-repo/config
In the example above, replace the ~/home/my-repo/config
value with your path value.
To ignore a specific secret, IaC, SCA, or SAST rule, you will need to use the --by-rule
flag in conjunction with the -t, --scan-type
flag (you must specify the scan type). This will ignore the given rule ID value from all future scans. Use the following command to add a rule ID value to be ignored:
cycode ignore -t {{scan-type}} --by-rule {{rule-ID}}
OR
cycode ignore --scan-type {{scan-type}} --by-rule {{rule-ID}}
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore the specific secret rule ID is as follows:
cycode ignore --scan-type secret --by-rule ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710
In the example above, replace the ce3a4de0-9dfc-448b-a004-c538cf8b4710
value with the rule ID you want to ignore.
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore the specific IaC rule ID is as follows:
cycode ignore --scan-type iac --by-rule bdaa88e2-5e7c-46ff-ac2a-29721418c59c
In the example above, replace the bdaa88e2-5e7c-46ff-ac2a-29721418c59c
value with the rule ID you want to ignore.
In the example at the top of this section, the command to ignore the specific SCA rule ID is as follows:
cycode ignore --scan-type sca --by-rule dc21bc6b-9f4f-46fb-9f92-e4327ea03f6b
In the example above, replace the dc21bc6b-9f4f-46fb-9f92-e4327ea03f6b
value with the rule ID you want to ignore.
π Note
This option is only available to the SCA scans.
To ignore a specific package in the SCA scans, you will need to use the --by-package
flag in conjunction with the -t, --scan-type
flag (you must specify the sca
scan type). This will ignore the given package, using the {{package_name}}@{{package_version}}
formatting, from all future scans. Use the following command to add a package and version to be ignored:
cycode ignore --scan-type sca --by-package {{package_name}}@{{package_version}}
OR
cycode ignore -t sca --by-package {{package_name}}@{{package_version}}
In the example below, the command to ignore a specific SCA package is as follows:
cycode ignore --scan-type sca --by-package [email protected]
In the example above, replace pyyaml
with package name and 5.3.1
with the package version you want to ignore.
You may add the --help
argument to any command at any time to see a help message that will display available options and their syntax.
To see general help, simply enter the command:
cycode --help
To see scan options, enter:
cycode scan --help
To see the options available for a specific type of scan, enter:
cycode scan {{option}} --help
For example, to see options available for a Path Scan, you would simply enter:
cycode scan path --help
To see the options available for the ignore scan function, use this command:
cycode ignore --help