ZAP Action Full Scan
A GitHub Action for running the OWASP ZAP Full Scan to perform Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).
The ZAP full scan action runs the ZAP spider against the specified target (by default with no time limit) followed by an optional ajax spider scan and then a full active scan before reporting the results. The alerts will be maintained as a GitHub issue in the corresponding repository.
WARNING this action will perform attacks on the target website. You should only scan targets that you have permission to test. You should also check with your hosting company and any other services such as CDNs that may be affected before running this action. ZAP will also submit forms which could result in a large number of messages via, for example, 'Contact us' or 'comment' forms.
Inputs
target
Required The URL of the web application to be scanned. This can be either a publicly available web application or a locally accessible URL.
docker_name
Optional The name of the docker file to be executed. By default the action runs the stable version of ZAP. But you can configure the parameter to use the weekly builds.
rules_file_name
Optional You can also specify a relative path to the rules file to ignore any alerts from the ZAP scan. Make sure to create the rules file inside the relevant repository. The following shows a sample rules file configuration. Make sure to checkout the repository (actions/checkout@v2) to provide the ZAP rules to the scan action.
10011 IGNORE (Cookie Without Secure Flag)
10015 IGNORE (Incomplete or No Cache-control and Pragma HTTP Header Set)
cmd_options
Optional Additional command lines options for the full scan script
allow_issue_writing
Optional By default the action will file the report to the GitHub issue using the issue_title
input.
Set this to false if you don't want the issue to be created or updated.
issue_title
Optional The title for the GitHub issue to be created.
token
Optional ZAP action uses the default action token provided by GitHub to create and update the issue for the full scan.
You do not have to create a dedicated token. Make sure to use the GitHub's default action token when running the action(secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
).
fail_action
Optional By default ZAP Docker container will fail with an exit code,
if it identifies any alerts. Set this option to true
if you want to fail the status of the GitHub Scan if ZAP identifies any alerts during the scan.
Example usage
** Basic **
steps:
- name: ZAP Scan
uses: zaproxy/action-full-scan@v0.4.0
with:
target: 'https://www.zaproxy.org/'
** Advanced **
on: [push]
jobs:
zap_scan:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Scan the webapplication
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
ref: master
- name: ZAP Scan
uses: zaproxy/action-full-scan@v0.4.0
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
docker_name: 'owasp/zap2docker-stable'
target: 'https://www.zaproxy.org/'
rules_file_name: '.zap/rules.tsv'
cmd_options: '-a'
Localised Alert Details
ZAP is internationalised and alert information is available in many languages.
You can change the language used by this action by changing the locale via the cmd_options
e.g.: -z "-config view.locale=fr_FR"
This is currently only available with the owasp/zap2docker-weekly
or owasp/zap2docker-live
Docker images.
See https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/tree/develop/zap/src/main/dist/lang for the full set of locales currently supported.
You can help improve ZAP translations via https://crowdin.com/project/owasp-zap.