Frogbot

Table of contents

• Frogbot
  • Table of contents
  • 🤖 What is Frogbot?
  • Scan pull requests when they are opened
    • General
    • 🕵️‍♀️ How does Pull Request scanning work?
    • 👮 Security note for pull requests scanning
    • Scan results
      • 👍 No issues
      • 👎 Issues were found
  • Scanning repositories and fixing issues
  • 🖥️ Installing Frogbot
  • 🔥 Reporting issues
  • 💻 Contributions

🤖 What is Frogbot?

Frogbot is a Git bot that scans your pull requests and repositories for security vulnerabilities. You can scan pull requests when they are opened, and Git repositories following new commits.

Scan pull requests when they are opened

General

Frogbot uses JFrog Xray (version 3.29.0 and above is required) to scan your pull requests. It adds the scan results as a comment on the pull request. If no new vulnerabilities are found, Frogbot will also add a comment, confirming this.

Supported platforms:

• Azure Repos
• Bitbucket Server
• GitHub
• GitLab

Supported package management tools:

• Go
• Gradle
• Maven
• .NET
• npm
• NuGet
• Pip
• Pipenv
• Poetry
• Yarn 2

🕵️‍♀️ How does Pull Request scanning work?

Azure Repos

After you create a new pull request, Frogbot will automatically scan it.

NOTE: The scan output will include only new vulnerabilities added by the pull request. Vulnerabilities that aren't new, and existed in the code before the pull request was created, will not be included in the report. In order to include all the vulnerabilities in the report, including older ones that weren't added by this PR, use the includeAllVulnerabilities parameter in the frogbot-config.yml file.

The Frogbot Azure Repos scan workflow is:

1. The developer opens a pull request.
2. Frogbot scans the pull request and adds a comment with the scan results.
3. Frogbot can be triggered again following new commits, by adding a comment with the rescan text.

Bitbucket Server

After you create a new pull request, Frogbot will automatically scan it.

NOTE: The scan output will include only new vulnerabilities added by the pull request. Vulnerabilities that aren't new, and existed in the code before the pull request was created, will not be included in the report. In order to include all of the vulnerabilities in the report, including older ones that weren't added by this PR, use the includeAllVulnerabilities parameter in the frogbot-config.yml file.

The Frogbot scan on Bitbucket Server workflow:

1. The developer opens a pull request.
2. Frogbot scans the pull request and adds a comment with the scan results.
3. Frogbot can be triggered again following new commits, by adding a comment with the rescan text.

GitHub

After you create a new pull request, the maintainer of the Git repository can trigger Frogbot to scan the pull request from the pull request UI.

NOTE: The scan output will include only new vulnerabilities added by the pull request. Vulnerabilities that aren't new, and existed in the code before the pull request was created, will not be included in the report. In order to include all of the vulnerabilities in the report, including older ones that weren't added by this PR, use the includeAllVulnerabilities parameter in the frogbot-config.yml file.

The Frogbot GitHub scan workflow is:

1. The developer opens a pull request.
2. The Frogbot workflow automatically gets triggered and a GitHub environment named frogbot becomes pending for the maintainer's approval.

3. The maintainer of the repository reviews the pull request and approves the scan:
4. Frogbot can be triggered again following new commits, by repeating steps 2 and 3.

GitLab

After you create a new merge request, the maintainer of the Git repository can trigger Frogbot to scan the merge request from the merge request UI.

NOTE: The scan output will include only new vulnerabilities added by the merge request. Vulnerabilities that aren't new, and existed in the code before the merge request was created, will not be included in the report. In order to include all of the vulnerabilities in the report, including older ones that weren't added by this merge request, use the includeAllVulnerabilities parameter in the frogbot-config.yml file.

The Frogbot GitLab flow is as follows:

1. The developer opens a merge request.
2. The maintainer of the repository reviews the merge request and approves the scan by triggering the manual frogbot-scan job.
3. Frogbot is then triggered by the job, it scans the merge request, and adds a comment with the scan results.
4. Frogbot can be triggered again following new commits, by triggering the frogbot-scan job again. GitLab CI Run Button

👮 Security note for pull requests scanning

When installing Frogbot using JFrog Pipelines, Jenkins and Azure DevOps, Frogbot will not wait for a maintainer's approval before scanning newly opened pull requests. Using Frogbot with these platforms, however, isn't recommended for open-source projects.

When installing Frogbot using GitHub Actions and GitLab however, Frogbot will initiate the scan only after it is approved by a maintainer of the project. The goal of this review is to ensure that external code contributors don't introduce malicious code as part of the pull request. Since this review step is enforced by Frogbot when used with GitHub Actions and GitLab, it is safe to be used for open-source projects.

Scan results

Frogbot adds the scan results to the pull request in the following format:

👍 No issues

If no new vulnerabilities are found, Frogbot automatically adds the following comment to the pull request:

👎 Issues were found

If new vulnerabilities are found, Frogbot adds them as a comment on the pull request. For example:

SEVERITY	IMPACTED PACKAGE	VERSION	FIXED VERSIONS	DIRECT DEPENDENCIES	DIRECT DEPENDENCIES VERSIONS	CVE
High	github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server	v0.21.0	[0.24.1]	github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server	v0.21.0	CVE-2022-24450
High	github.com/mholt/archiver/v3	v3.5.1		github.com/mholt/archiver/v3	v3.5.1
Medium	github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server	v0.21.0	[0.24.3]	github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server	v0.21.0	CVE-2022-26652

Scanning repositories and fixing issues

Frogbot scans your Git repository and automatically opens pull requests for upgrading vulnerable dependencies to a version with a fix.

For GitHub repositories, Frogbot also adds Security Alerts which you can view in the GitHub UI:

Frogbot uses JFrog Xray for the scanning. The scanning is triggered following commits that are pushed to the repository.

Supported package management tools:

• Go
• Maven
• npm
• Pip
• Pipenv
• Poetry
• Yarn 2

🖥️ Installing Frogbot

Step 1 - Optionally set up a FREE JFrog Environment in the Cloud

Frogbot requires a JFrog environment to scan your projects. If you don't have an environment, we can set up a free environment in the cloud for you. Just run one of the following commands in your terminal to set up an environment in less than a minute.

The commands will do the following:

1. Install JFrog CLI on your machine.
2. Create a FREE JFrog environment in the cloud for you.

For macOS and Linux, use curl

curl -fL "https://getcli.jfrog.io?setup" | sh

For Windows, use PowerShell

powershell "Start-Process -Wait -Verb RunAs powershell '-NoProfile iwr https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/jfrog-cli/v2-jf/[RELEASE]/jfrog-cli-windows-amd64/jf.exe -OutFile $env:SYSTEMROOT\system32\jf.exe'" ; jf setup

After the setup is complete, you'll receive an email with your JFrog environment connection details, which can be stored as secrets in Git.

Step 2 - Create the frogbot-config.yml file if needed

• Creating the frogbot-config.yml File

Step 3 - Install Frogbot

• Installing Frogbot on Azure Repos repositories
• Installing Frogbot on Bitbucket Server repositories
• Installing Frogbot on GitHub repositories
• Installing Frogbot on GitLab repositories

🔥 Reporting issues

Please help us improve Frogbot by reporting issues you encounter.

💻 Contributions

We welcome pull requests from the community. To help us improve this project, please read our Contribution guide.