DevSkim is security linter that highlights common security issues in source code.

The DevSkim GitHub Action outputs a sarif file compatible with GitHub's Security Issues view.

Add DevSkim to your GitHub Actions pipeline like below.

    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - uses: microsoft/DevSkim-Action@v1
    - uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
      with:
        sarif_file: devskim-results.sarif

You can also specify a number of options to the action.

    - uses: microsoft/devskim-action@v1
      with:
        directory-to-scan: path/to/scan
        should-scan-archives: false
        output-filename: devskim-results.sarif
        output-directory: path/to/output (appended to $GITHUB_WORKSPACE)
        ignore-globs: "**/.git/**,*.txt"
        exclude-rules: DS176209,DS148264
        options-json: path/to/options.json

• Built-in ruleset highlighting common security issues in source code
• Support for scanning code contained in archives
• Information and guidance provided for identified security issues
• Broad language support including: C, C++, C#, Cobol, Go, Java, Javascript/Typescript, Python, and more.

The DevSkim engine powering this GitHub Action is also available here as a Cli and as IDE extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.