The SensioLabs Security Checker is a command line tool that checks if your application uses dependencies with known security vulnerabilities. It uses the Security Check Web service and the Security Advisories Database.
TIP: As an alternative, you can use the Symfony CLI tool that has the following advantages: it does not depend on PHP, all checks are done locally (no calls to the security.symfony.com API):
$ symfony security:check
Download the security-checker.phar file:
$ php security-checker.phar security:check /path/to/composer.lock
Use the code from the repository directly:
$ composer install
$ php security-checker security:check /path/to/composer.lock
The checker uses the Symfony Console component; so, you can easily integrate the checker into your own project:
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by using the
SecurityCheckerCommand
class into your Symfony Console application; -
by using the
SecurityChecker
class directly into your own code:use SensioLabs\Security\SecurityChecker; $checker = new SecurityChecker(); $result = $checker->check('/path/to/composer.lock', 'json'); $alerts = json_decode((string) $result, true);