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rust-audit-check

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rust-audit-check

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rust-audit-check

Run cargo audit and check for security advisories

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: rust-audit-check

uses: actions-rs/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in actions-rs/audit-check

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Rust audit-check Action

MIT licensed Gitter

Security vulnerabilities audit

This GitHub Action is using cargo-audit to perform an audit for crates with security vulnerabilities.

Usage

Audit changes

We can utilize the GitHub Actions ability to execute workflow only if the specific files were changed and execute this Action to check the changed dependencies:

name: Security audit
on:
  push:
    paths: 
      - '**/Cargo.toml'
      - '**/Cargo.lock'
jobs:
  security_audit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: actions-rs/audit-check@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

It is recommended to add the paths: section into the workflow file, as it would effectively speed up the CI pipeline, since the audit process will not be performed if no dependencies were changed.

In case of any security advisories found, status check created by this Action will be marked as "failed".
Note that informational advisories are not affecting the check status.

Check screenshot

Limitations

Due to token permissions, this Action WILL NOT be able to create Checks for Pull Requests from the forked repositories, see actions-rs/clippy-check#2 for details.
As a fallback this Action will output all found advisories to the stdout.
It is expected that this behavior will be fixed later by GitHub.

Scheduled audit

Another option is to use schedule event and execute this Action periodically against the HEAD of repository default branch.

name: Security audit
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
jobs:
  audit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: actions-rs/audit-check@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

With this example Action will be executed periodically at midnight of each day and check if there any new advisories appear for crate dependencies.
For each new advisory (including informal) an issue will be created:

Issue screenshot

Inputs

Name Required Description Type Default
token GitHub token, usually a ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} string