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Security Scorecards

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Overview

Using Scorecards

Checks

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Overview

What is Scorecards?

We created Scorecards to give consumers of open-source projects an easy way to judge whether their dependencies are safe.

Scorecards is an automated tool that assesses a number of important heuristics ("checks") associated with software security and assigns each check a score of 0-10. You can use these scores to understand specific areas to improve in order to strengthen the security posture of your project. You can also assess the risks that dependencies introduce, and make informed decisions about accepting these risks, evaluating alternative solutions, or working with the maintainers to make improvements.

The inspiration for Scorecards’ logo: "You passed! All D's ... and an A!"

Project Goals

  1. Automate analysis and trust decisions on the security posture of open source projects.

  2. Use this data to proactively improve the security posture of the critical projects the world depends on.

Prominent Scorecards Users

Scorecards has been run on thousands of projects to monitor and track security metrics. Prominent projects that use Scorecards include:

Using Scorecards

Prerequisites

Platforms: Currently, Scorecards supports OSX and Linux platforms. If you are using a Windows OS you may experience issues. Contributions towards supporting Windows are welcome.

Language: You must have GoLang installed to run Scorecards (https://golang.org/doc/install)

Installation

To install Scorecards:

  1. Visit our latest release page and download the correct binary for your operating system
  2. Extract the binary file
  3. Add the binary to your GOPATH/bin directory (use go env GOPATH to identify your directory if necessary)
Authentication

Before running Scorecard, you need to either:

  • create a GitHub access token and set it in an environment variable called GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN, GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_AUTH_TOKEN or GH_TOKEN. This helps to avoid the GitHub's api rate limits with unauthenticated requests.
# For posix platforms, e.g. linux, mac:
export GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your access token>
# Multiple tokens can be provided separated by comma to be utilized
# in a round robin fashion.
export GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your access token1>,<your access token2>

# For windows:
set GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your access token>
set GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=<your access token1>,<your access token2>
  • create a GitHub App Installations for higher rate-limit quotas. If you have an installed GitHub App and key file, you can use the three environment variables below, following the commands shown above for your platform.
GITHUB_APP_KEY_PATH=<path to the key file on disk>
GITHUB_APP_INSTALLATION_ID=<installation id>
GITHUB_APP_ID=<app id>

These variables can be obtained from the GitHub developer settings page.

Basic Usage
Docker

scorecard is available as a Docker container:

The GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN has to be set to a valid token

docker run -e GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=token gcr.io/openssf/scorecard:stable --show-details --repo=https://github.com/ossf/scorecard
Using repository URL

Scorecards can run using just one argument, the URL of the target repo:

$ scorecard --repo=github.com/ossf-tests/scorecard-check-branch-protection-e2e
Starting [CII-Best-Practices]
Starting [Fuzzing]
Starting [Pinned-Dependencies]
Starting [CI-Tests]
Starting [Maintained]
Starting [Packaging]
Starting [SAST]
Starting [Dependency-Update-Tool]
Starting [Token-Permissions]
Starting [Security-Policy]
Starting [Signed-Releases]
Starting [Binary-Artifacts]
Starting [Branch-Protection]
Starting [Code-Review]
Starting [Contributors]
Starting [Vulnerabilities]
Finished [CI-Tests]
Finished [Maintained]
Finished [Packaging]
Finished [SAST]
Finished [Signed-Releases]
Finished [Binary-Artifacts]
Finished [Branch-Protection]
Finished [Code-Review]
Finished [Contributors]
Finished [Dependency-Update-Tool]
Finished [Token-Permissions]
Finished [Security-Policy]
Finished [Vulnerabilities]
Finished [CII-Best-Practices]
Finished [Fuzzing]
Finished [Pinned-Dependencies]

RESULTS
-------
Aggregate score: 7.9 / 10

Check scores:
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  SCORE  |          NAME          |             REASON             |                         DOCUMENTATION/REMEDIATION                         |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 10 / 10 | Binary-Artifacts       | no binaries found in the repo  | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#binary-artifacts       |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9 / 10  | Branch-Protection      | branch protection is not       | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#branch-protection      |
|         |                        | maximal on development and all |                                                                           |
|         |                        | release branches               |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ?       | CI-Tests               | no pull request found          | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#ci-tests               |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | CII-Best-Practices     | no badge found                 | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#cii-best-practices     |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 10 / 10 | Code-Review            | branch protection for default  | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#code-review            |
|         |                        | branch is enabled              |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | Contributors           | 0 different companies found -- | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#contributors           |
|         |                        | score normalized to 0          |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | Dependency-Update-Tool | no update tool detected        | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#dependency-update-tool |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | Fuzzing                | project is not fuzzed in       | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#fuzzing                |
|         |                        | OSS-Fuzz                       |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 / 10  | Maintained             | 2 commit(s) found in the last  | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#maintained             |
|         |                        | 90 days -- score normalized to |                                                                           |
|         |                        | 1                              |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ?       | Packaging              | no published package detected  | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#packaging              |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 8 / 10  | Pinned-Dependencies    | unpinned dependencies detected | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#pinned-dependencies    |
|         |                        | -- score normalized to 8       |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | SAST                   | no SAST tool detected          | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#sast                   |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0 / 10  | Security-Policy        | security policy file not       | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#security-policy        |
|         |                        | detected                       |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ?       | Signed-Releases        | no releases found              | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#signed-releases        |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 10 / 10 | Token-Permissions      | tokens are read-only in GitHub | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#token-permissions      |
|         |                        | workflows                      |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 10 / 10 | Vulnerabilities        | no vulnerabilities detected    | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#vulnerabilities        |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Scoring

Each individual check returns a score of 0 to 10, with 10 representing the best possible score. Scorecards also produces an aggregate score, which is a weight-based average of the individual checks weighted by risk.

  • “Critical” risk checks are weighted at 10
  • “High” risk checks are weighted at 7.5
  • “Medium” risk checks are weighted at 5
  • “Low” risk checks are weighted at 2.5

Note: there are currently no Scorecards checks rated as “Critical” risk.

Tests that are rated as “High” risk are:

  • Maintained
  • Dependency-Update-Tool
  • Binary-Artifacts
  • Branch-Protection
  • Code-Review
  • Signed-Releases
  • Token-Permissions
  • Vulnerabilities

Tests that are rated as “Medium” risk are:

  • Fuzzing
  • Packaging
  • Pinned-Dependencies
  • SAST
  • Security-Policy

Tests that are rated as “Low” risk are:

  • CI-Tests
  • CII-Best-Practices
  • Contributors
Showing Detailed Results

For more details about why a check fails, use the --show-details option:

./scorecard --repo=github.com/ossf-tests/scorecard-check-branch-protection-e2e --checks Branch-Protection --show-details
Starting [Pinned-Dependencies]
Finished [Pinned-Dependencies]

RESULTS
-------
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  SCORE  |          NAME          |             REASON             |            DETAILS             |                         DOCUMENTATION/REMEDIATION                         |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9 / 10  | Branch-Protection      | branch protection is not       | Info: 'force pushes' disabled  | github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#branch-protection      |
|         |                        | maximal on development and all | on branch 'main' Info: 'allow  |                                                                           |
|         |                        | release branches               | deletion' disabled on branch   |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | 'main' Info: linear history    |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | enabled on branch 'main' Info: |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | strict status check enabled    |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | on branch 'main' Warn: status  |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | checks for merging have no     |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | specific status to check on    |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | branch 'main' Info: number     |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | of required reviewers is 2     |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | on branch 'main' Info: Stale   |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | review dismissal enabled on    |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | branch 'main' Info: Owner      |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | review required on branch      |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | 'main' Info: 'admininistrator' |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | PRs need reviews before being  |                                                                           |
|         |                        |                                | merged on branch 'main'        |                                                                           |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Using a Package manager

For projects in the --npm, --pypi, or --rubygems ecosystems, you have the option to run Scorecards using a package manager. Provide the package name to run the checks on the corresponding GitHub source code.

For example, --npm=angular.

Running specific checks

To run only specific check(s), add the --checks argument with a list of check names.

For example, --checks=CI-Tests,Code-Review.

Formatting Results

There are three formats currently: default, json, and csv. Others may be added in the future.

These may be specified with the --format flag. For example, --format=json.

Report Problems

If you have what looks like a bug, please use the Github issue tracking system. Before you file an issue, please search existing issues to see if your issue is already covered.

Public Data

If you're interested in seeing a list of projects with their Scorecard check results, we publish these results in a BigQuery public dataset.

This data is available in the public BigQuery dataset openssf:scorecardcron.scorecard-v2. The latest results are available in the BigQuery view openssf:scorecardcron.scorecard-v2_latest.

You can extract the latest results to Google Cloud storage in JSON format using the bq tool:

# Get the latest PARTITION_ID
bq query --nouse_legacy_sql 'SELECT partition_id FROM
openssf.scorecardcron.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS WHERE table_name="scorecard-v2"
ORDER BY partition_id DESC
LIMIT 1'

# Extract to GCS
bq extract --destination_format=NEWLINE_DELIMITED_JSON
'openssf:scorecardcron.scorecard-v2$<partition_id>' gs://bucket-name/filename.json

The list of projects that are checked is available in the cron/data/projects.csv file in this repository. If you would like us to track more, please feel free to send a Pull Request with others. Currently, this list is derived from projects hosted on GitHub ONLY. We do plan to expand them in near future to account for projects hosted on other source control systems.

NOTE: The public dataset uses a Pass/Fail scoring system with a confidence score between 0 and 10. A confidence of 0 indicates that the check was unable to achieve any real signal, and that the result should be ignored. A confidence of 10 indicates the check was completely sure of the result.

Checks

Scorecard Checks

The following checks are all run against the target project by default:

Name Description
Binary-Artifacts Is the project free of checked-in binaries?
Branch-Protection Does the project use Branch Protection ?
CI-Tests Does the project run tests in CI, e.g. GitHub Actions, Prow?
CII-Best-Practices Does the project have a CII Best Practices Badge?
Code-Review Does the project require code review before code is merged?
Contributors Does the project have contributors from at least two different organizations?
Dependency-Update-Tool Does the project use tools to help update its dependencies?
Fuzzing Does the project use fuzzing tools, e.g. OSS-Fuzz?
Maintained Is the project maintained?
Pinned-Dependencies Does the project declare and pin dependencies?
Packaging Does the project build and publish official packages from CI/CD, e.g. GitHub Publishing ?
SAST Does the project use static code analysis tools, e.g. CodeQL, LGTM, SonarCloud?
Security-Policy Does the project contain a security policy?
Signed-Releases Does the project cryptographically sign releases?
Token-Permissions Does the project declare GitHub workflow tokens as read only?
Vulnerabilities Does the project have unfixed vulnerabilities? Uses the OSV service.
Detailed Checks Documentation

To see detailed information about each check, its scoring criteria, and remediation steps, check out the checks documentation page.

Contribute

Code of Conduct

Before contributing, please follow our Code of Conduct.

Contribute to Scorecards

See the Contributing documentation for guidance on how to contribute to the project.

Adding a Scorecard Check

If you'd like to add a check, please see guidance here.

Connect with the Scorecards Community

If you want to get involved in the Scorecards community or have ideas you'd like to chat about, we discuss this project in the OSSF Best Practices Working Group meetings.

Artifact Link
Scorecard Dev Forum ossf-scorecard-dev@
Scorecard Announcements Forum ossf-scorecard-announce@
Community Meeting VC Link to z o o m meeting
Community Meeting Calendar Biweekly mondays, 3:30pm-4:30pm PST
Calendar
Meeting Notes Notes
Slack Channel #security_scorecards
  Facilitators Company Profile
Azeem Shaik Google azeemshaikh38
Laurent Simon Google laurentsimon
Naveen Srinivasan naveensrinivasan
Chris McGehee Datto chrismcgehee
Report a Security Issue

To report a security issue, please follow instructions here.

Documentation

Overview

Package main of OSSF Scoreard.

Source Files

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Path Synopsis
Package checker includes structs and functions used for running a check.
 Package checker includes structs and functions used for running a check.
Package checks defines all Scorecard checks.
 Package checks defines all Scorecard checks.
evaluation
fileparser
raw
Package clients defines the interface for RepoClient and related structs.
 Package clients defines the interface for RepoClient and related structs.
githubrepo
Package githubrepo implements clients.RepoClient for GitHub.
 Package githubrepo implements clients.RepoClient for GitHub.
githubrepo/roundtripper
Package roundtripper has implementations of http.RoundTripper useful to clients.RepoClient.
 Package roundtripper has implementations of http.RoundTripper useful to clients.RepoClient.
githubrepo/roundtripper/tokens
Package tokens defines interface to access GitHub PATs.
 Package tokens defines interface to access GitHub PATs.
githubrepo/roundtripper/tokens/server
Package main implements the GitHub token server.
 Package main implements the GitHub token server.
githubrepo/stats
localdir
Package localdir implements RepoClient on local source code.
 Package localdir implements RepoClient on local source code.
mockclients
Package mockrepo is a generated GoMock package.
 Package mockrepo is a generated GoMock package.
Package cmd implements Scorecard commandline.
 Package cmd implements Scorecard commandline.
cron
bq
Package main implements the BQ transfer job.
 Package main implements the BQ transfer job.
cii
Package main implements the PubSub controller.
 Package main implements the PubSub controller.
config
Package config defines the configuration values for the cron job.
 Package config defines the configuration values for the cron job.
controller
Package main implements the PubSub controller.
 Package main implements the PubSub controller.
data
Package data contains util fns for reading and writing data handled by the cron job.
 Package data contains util fns for reading and writing data handled by the cron job.
data/add
Package main adds new project repositories to the projects file.
 Package main adds new project repositories to the projects file.
data/update
Package main updates projects repositories with a projects dependencies.
 Package main updates projects repositories with a projects dependencies.
data/validate
Package main validates an input file with a list of projects.
 Package main validates an input file with a list of projects.
format
monitoring
Package monitoring defines exporters to be used by opencensus package in the cron job.
 Package monitoring defines exporters to be used by opencensus package in the cron job.
pubsub
Package pubsub handles interactions with PubSub framework.
 Package pubsub handles interactions with PubSub framework.
shuffle
Package main implements the PubSub controller.
 Package main implements the PubSub controller.
webhook
Package main implements a Webhook which runs a bash script when called.
 Package main implements a Webhook which runs a bash script when called.
worker
Package main implements cron worker job.
 Package main implements cron worker job.
docs
checks
Package checks contains documentation about checks.
 Package checks contains documentation about checks.
checks/internal
Package internal contains internal functions for reading input YAML file.
 Package internal contains internal functions for reading input YAML file.
checks/internal/generate
checks/internal/validate
Package pkg defines fns for running Scorecard checks on a Repo.
 Package pkg defines fns for running Scorecard checks on a Repo.
Package stats defines opencensus monitoring stats exposed by Scorecard.
 Package stats defines opencensus monitoring stats exposed by Scorecard.
Package utests defines util fns for Scorecard unit testing.
 Package utests defines util fns for Scorecard unit testing.

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