ghaudit

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ghaudit

CLI audit tool for GitHub organization with OPA/Rego.

Features

• Crawls GitHub repository meta data of your organization
• Evaluates the meta data with policy written by Rego or inquiry to OPA server
• Exit with non-zero when detecting violation and notify the violation to Slack

Setup

1) Create a new GitHub App

1. Go to https://github.com/organizations/{your_org_name}/settings/apps and click New GitHub App
2. Input required fields and grant following permissions. Then click Create GitHub App
   • Repository permissions
     • Administration: Read-only
     • Content: Read-only
     • Webhooks: Read-only
3. Create key by clicking Generate a private key and save it.
4. Move Install App page from left side bar and click Install button of the organization you want to install

Please note the following items

• AppID: You can find it in https://github.com/settings/apps/{your_app_name}
• InstallID: You can find it in installation page https://github.com/organizations/{your_org_name}/settings/installations/{Install ID}

2) Creating policy by Rego

Policy rules

• Package name: github.repo
• Input data
  • input.repo: Repository data (a result of https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#get-a-repository)
  • input.branches: A list of branch (a result of https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/branches#list-branches)
  • input.collaborators: A list of collaborator (a result of https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/collaborators#list-repository-collaborators)
  • input.hooks: A list of webhooks (a result of https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/webhooks#list-repository-webhooks)
  • input.teams: A list of team (a result of https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#list-repository-teams)
  • input.timestamp: Unix timestamp of scan
• Result: Put detected violation
  • category: Title to indicate violation category
  • message: Describe violation detail

Policy example

package github.repo

fail[res] {
    user := input.collaborators[_]
    true == [
        user.permissions.maintain,
        user.permissions.admin,
    ][_]

    res = {
        "category": "Collaborator must not have permissions of maintain and admin",
        "message": sprintf("%s has maintain:%v admin:%v", [user.login, user.permissions.maintain, user.permissions.admin]),
    }
}

3) [Optional] Retrieve webhook URL of Slack

ghaudit can notify a detected violation via Slack by incoming webhook. Setup incoming webhook according to https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks if you want.

Run ghaudit

$ export GHAUDIT_APP_ID=000000
$ export GHAUDIT_INSTALL_ID=0000000
$ export GHAUDIT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=xxxxxx.2022-02-18.private-key.pem
$ export GHAUDIT_SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
$ ghaudit -o [your_org_name] -p ./policy

Options

Required

• --app-id (GHAUDIT_APP_ID): GitHub App ID
• --install-id (GHAUDIT_INSTALL_ID): GitHub App install ID
• GitHub App private key: Choose either one of following:
  • --private-key-file (GHAUDIT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE): Key file path
  • --private-key-data (GHAUDIT_PRIVATE_KEY_DATA): Key data
• Audit policy: Choose either one of following:
  • Use local Rego file(s)
    • --policy, -p: Rego policy directory. Scan .rego file recursively
    • --package: Package name of policy. Default is github.repo
  • Use OPA server
    • --server, -s: OPA server URL
    • --header, -H: HTTP header of inquiry request to OPA server
• --dump: Specify directory to dump retrieved data from GitHub
• --load: Specify directory to load retrieved data from GitHub

Optional

• --format, -f: Choose text or json.
• --output, -o: Output file. - means stdout.
• --slack-webhook (GHAUDIT_SLACK_WEBHOOK): Slack incoming webhook URL.
• --fail: Exit with non-zero when detecting violation
• --thread: Specify number of thread to retrieve repository meta data
• --limit: Specify limit number of auditing repository

License

Apache License 2.0