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Salus Architecture

Salus is a docker container. Installed into the container are security scanners and a small ruby application that coordinates them.

Salus Architecture Diagram

The source code being scanned is volumed into the container and Salus expects to find this code at the internal path /home/repo. While the Salus application is written in Ruby, other languages are installed in the container as required for each scanners.

Ruby Objects

  • Salus: the primary class of the application.
  • Salus::CLI: command line wrapper to run Salus.
  • Salus::Config: object that maintains Salus' configuration.
  • Salus::Processor: runs each scanners against the repo.
  • Salus::Repo: representation of the repository being scanned.
  • Salus::Report: object that collects data about scans and compiles a report.
  • Salus::Scanners::<name>: scanner objects that can determine if a scanner should run, runs the scanner and collect the results.

Plugins

To simplify extension Salus supports light weight plugin architecture. We use the mediator pattern for filters and the observer pattern for events.

Filters

Filters enable the plugin to modify data. Each filter belongs to a filter group.

Group :salus_config Supported Methods :filter_config

  • filter_config is used to override the loaded configuration after the cascade has been applied

Group :salus_report, Supported Methods :filter_report_hash

  • filter_report_hash allows mutating the report hash values. Use this filter if you want to customize any data being written to a report
# Example

class MyFilter
  def filter_report_hash(report_hash)
  	# Add some hash mutation here
  	return report_hash
  end
end

filter = MyFiler.new
Salus::PluginManager.register_filter(:salus_report, filter)

Events

Events are published, plugins can register listeners for events. Event :cli_startup

  • cli_startup is called when bin/salus calls out the Salus::CLI.start(ARGV) to begin the cli. ARGV is passed as the data to this event

Event :cli_scan Salus::PluginManager.send_event(:cli_scan, options)

  • cli_csan is called once the cli begins the scan, The CLI options are passed as the data to the event

Event :salus_scan

  • salus scan. This event will be called with the Salus scan has begun. The data playload will be the params passed to the Salus.scan method

Event: skip_scanner

  • skip_scanner will be called if the scanner is determined to be non-active or not relevant for the codebase. The data playoad is the scanner name string.

Event: run_scanner

  • run_scanner is called immediately before running the scanner. Only scanners that have been determined relevant for the codebase will trigger this event. The data playoad is the scanner name string.

Event: scanners_ran

  • scanners_ran will be invoked after all scanners have ran. The data playload will be an array of scanners ran and a second parameter for the SalusReport object

Event :run_shell

  • run_shell is called when a scanner executes a shell command to run a native scanner. The data payload will be the array of arguments.

Event :report_warn

  • report_warn will be invoked during scans if a scanner has determined a warning is necessary. The data payload will be the type of warning and corresponding message.