ZAP Action Full Scan

A GitHub Action for running the 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.

artifact_name

Optional By default the full scan action will attach the report to the build with the name zap_scan. Set this to a different string to name it something else. Consult GitHub's documentation for which artifact names are allowed.

Environment variables

If set, the following ZAP authentication environment variables will be copied into the docker container:

• ZAP_AUTH_HEADER_VALUE
• ZAP_AUTH_HEADER
• ZAP_AUTH_HEADER_SITE

Example usage

** Basic **

steps:
  - name: ZAP Scan
    uses: zaproxy/[email protected]
    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@v4
        with:
          ref: master
      - name: ZAP Scan
        uses: zaproxy/[email protected]
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          docker_name: 'ghcr.io/zaproxy/zaproxy: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"

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/zaproxy.