PyCQA/bandit
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Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
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A security linter from PyCQA
- Free software: Apache license
- Documentation: https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Source: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
- Bugs: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/issues
- Contributing: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Overview
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an AST from it, and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has finished scanning all the files it generates a report.
Bandit was originally developed within the OpenStack Security Project and later rehomed to PyCQA.
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References
Python AST module documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html
Green Tree Snakes - the missing Python AST docs: https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Documentation of the various types of AST nodes that Bandit currently covers or could be extended to cover: https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/nodes.html
Container Images
Bandit is available as a container image, built within the bandit repository using GitHub Actions. The image is available on ghcr.io:
.. code-block:: console
docker pull ghcr.io/pycqa/bandit/bandit
The image is built for the following architectures:
- amd64
- arm64
- armv7
- armv8
To pull a specific architecture, use the following format:
.. code-block:: console
docker pull --platform=<architecture> ghcr.io/pycqa/bandit/bandit:latest
Every image is signed with sigstore cosign and it is possible to verify the source of origin using the following cosign command:
.. code-block:: console
cosign verify ghcr.io/pycqa/bandit/bandit:latest \
--certificate-identity https://github.com/pycqa/bandit/.github/workflows/build-publish-image.yml@refs/tags/<version> \
--certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com
Where <version> is the release version of Bandit.
Sponsors
The development of Bandit is made possible by the following sponsors:
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