code-vuln-audit

code-vuln-audit

A code security scanning tool with three core scanning capabilities:

1. Dependency Vulnerability Scanning — Automatically detects known vulnerabilities in npm / pip dependencies
2. Secret Leak Detection — Discovers hardcoded secrets, tokens, and passwords via regex matching + Shannon entropy analysis
3. OWASP Pattern Detection — Identifies common security anti-patterns such as SQL injection, XSS, command injection, and insecure deserialization

Quick Start

# Scan the current directory (all checks)
python3 scripts/security_scan.py .

# Scan dependencies only
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode deps .

# Detect secret leaks only
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode secrets /path/to/project

Detect OWASP security patterns only

python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode owasp .

Output report in JSON format

python3 scripts/security_scan.py --format json --output report.json .

Only show findings at high severity and above

python3 scripts/security_scan.py --severity high .

## Scan Module Details

### 1. Dependency Vulnerability Scanning (deps)

Automatically detects the project type and invokes the appropriate tool:

| Project Type | Detection File | Tool Used |
|---|---|---|
| Node.js | `package.json` + `package-lock.json` | `npm audit` |
| Python | `requirements.txt` / `pyproject.toml` / `Pipfile` | `pip-audit` |

If the corresponding audit tool is not installed, a helpful message is displayed instead of an error.

### 2. Secret Leak Detection (secrets)

Detection is performed in two ways:

**Regex Matching**: Covers common secret formats

| Secret Type | Example Pattern |
|---|---|
| AWS Access Key | 20-character string starting with `AKIA` |
| GitHub Token | Starts with `ghp_` or `github_pat_` |
| Slack Token | Starts with `xoxb-` or `xoxp-` |
| Stripe Key | Starts with `sk_live_` or `pk_live_` |
| Private Key File | `-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----` |
| Generic API Key | Format like `api_key = "..."` |
| Credentials in URL | `https://user:pass@host` |
| JWT Token | `eyJ...` format |

**Shannon Entropy Analysis**: Computes information entropy for string constants in code (threshold > 4.5 and length >= 20) to discover secrets in non-standard formats.

### 3. OWASP Pattern Detection (owasp)

Covers statically detectable security patterns from the OWASP Top 10:

| OWASP Category | Detection Patterns |
|---|---|
| A02: Cryptographic Failures | Weak hashes (MD5/SHA1), weak ciphers (DES/RC4) |
| A03: Injection | SQL injection, command injection (os.system / subprocess shell / eval / exec), XSS (innerHTML / document.write / dangerouslySetInnerHTML / v-html) |
| A04: Insecure Design | Path traversal |
| A05: Security Misconfiguration | Debug mode enabled, CORS wildcard, binding to 0.0.0.0 |
| A08: Integrity Failures | Insecure deserialization (pickle / yaml.load / marshal / unserialize) |
| A10: SSRF | User input passed directly to HTTP requests |

Supported languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, PHP, Ruby, Go, and more.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `TARGET` | Directory to scan | Current directory |
| `--mode MODE` | Scan mode: `all`, `deps`, `secrets`, `owasp` | `all` |
| `--format FORMAT` | Output format: `text`, `json` | `text` |
| `--output FILE` | Output file path | stdout |
| `--severity LEVEL` | Minimum reporting level: `low`, `medium`, `high`, `critical` | `low` |
| `--exclude-dir DIR` | Additional directories to exclude (repeatable) | - |
| `--max-file-kb SIZE` | Maximum file size to scan in KB | `512` |
| `-h, --help` | Show help | - |

## Output Format

### Text Output (default)

=== Security Scan Report === Target: /path/to/project Modules: deps, secrets, owasp

[CRITICAL] AWS Access Key ID File: src/config.py:15 Code: AWS_KEY = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"

[HIGH] SQL Injection (f-string) File: src/db.py:42 Code: cursor.execute(f"SELECT * FROM users WHERE id={user_id}")

--- Summary --- Critical: 1 | High: 1 | Medium: 0 | Low: 0 Total findings: 2

### JSON Output

```json
{
  "target": "/path/to/project",
  "scan_time": "2026-04-14T10:30:00",
  "findings": [
    {
      "scanner": "secrets",
      "name": "AWS Access Key ID",
      "severity": "critical",
      "file": "src/config.py",
      "line": 15,
      "snippet": "AWS_KEY = \"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE\"",
      "category": "secret-pattern"
    }
  ],
  "summary": {"critical": 1, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "total": 1}
}

Exit Codes

Exit Code	Meaning
0	No findings
1	Findings present (at least one security issue)
2	Scanner internal error

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+ (uses standard library only)
• Dependency scanning requires the corresponding tools: npm (for Node.js projects), pip-audit (for Python projects)
• If an audit tool is missing, that module will be skipped with a notice — other modules continue to run normally