juburr / syft-orb

A simple CircleCI orb used to install Syft and produce SBOMs for container images

CircleCI Syft Orb

An orb for simplifying Syft installation and use within CircleCI.

This is an unofficial Syft orb used for installing Syft in your CircleCI pipeline and producing SBOMs for container images. Contributions are welcome!

Features

Secure By Design

• Least Privilege: Installs to a user-owned directory by default, with no sudo usage anywhere in this orb.
• Integrity: Checksum validation of all downloaded binaries using SHA-512.
• Provenance: Installs directly from Syft's official releases page on GitHub. No third-party websites, domains, or proxies are used.
• Confidentiality: All secrets and environment variables are handled in accordance with CircleCI's security recommendations and best practices.
• Privacy: No usage data of any kind is collected or shipped back to the orb developer.

Info for security teams:

• Required external access to allow, if running a locked down, self-hosted CircleCI pipeline on-prem:
  • github.com: For download and installation of the Syft tool.