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GitHub Security Alert Export

v1.1 Latest version

GitHub Security Alert Export

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GitHub Security Alert Export

Exports GitHub code scanning, secret scanning, and dependabot security alerts to JSON

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: GitHub Security Alert Export

              
  uses: austenstone/security-export@v1.1
Learn more about this action in austenstone/security-export

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GitHub Security Export

This project exports GitHub code scanning, secret scanning, and dependabot security alerts to JSON.

Usage

Create a workflow (eg: .github/workflows/security-export.yml). See Creating a Workflow file.

PAT(Personal Access Token)

You will need to create a PAT(Personal Access Token) that has the appropriate scope.

Add this PAT as a secret so we can use it as input github-token, see Creating encrypted secrets for a repository.

Organizations

If your organization has SAML enabled you must authorize the PAT, see Authorizing a personal access token for use with SAML single sign-on.

Basic Usage

You can pass enterprise, organization, or repository to scope the export.

name: Export Security Alerts
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  run:
    name: Export
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: austenstone/security-export@main
        id: export
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          organization: octodemo
      - run: |
          echo "$DEPENDABOT"
          echo "$CODE_SCANNING"
          echo "$SECRET_SCANNING"
        env:
          DEPENDABOT: ${{ steps.export.outputs.dependabot }}
          CODE_SCANNING: ${{ steps.export.outputs.code-scanning }}
          SECRET_SCANNING: ${{ steps.export.outputs.secret-scanning }}

CSV Format Example

You can export to CSV using the austenstone/json-to-csv action.

Note

The output of this action might exceed the maximum size of inputs/outputs. In that case leverage the generated artifact as shown in the example.

name: Export Security Alerts
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  run:
    name: Export
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ./
        id: export
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          repository: octodemo/vulnerable-node
      - uses: austenstone/json-to-csv@main
        with:
          json-artifact-name: ${{ steps.export.outputs.artifact-name }}
          create-artifact: true
          artifact-name: "GitHub Security Alerts CSV"

Query Parameters Example

          code-scanning-query-parameters: '{ "severity": "critical", "state": "open" }'
          secret-scanning-query-parameters: '{ "state": "open" }'
          dependabot-query-parameters: '{ "severity": "critical", "state": "open" }'

Artifact

We create an artifact by default, you can disable this by setting create-artifact to false. Modify the artifact-name to change the name of the artifact.

          create-artifact: true
          artifact-name: "GitHub Security Alerts"

Access the artifact via the output variable ${{ steps[*].export.outputs.artifact-name }}.

➡️ Inputs

Various inputs are defined in action.yml:

Name Description Default
github‑token Token to use to authorize. ${{ github.token }}
enterprise The GitHub Enterprise N/A
organization The GitHub organization N/A
repository The GitHub repository ${{ github.repository }}
code-scanning Whether to export code scanning alerts true
code-scanning-query-parameters Query parameters as JSON Ex: {"state": dismissed} N/A
secret-scanning Whether to export secret scanning alerts true
secret-scanning-query-parameters Query parameters as JSON N/A
dependabot Whether to export dependabot alerts true
dependabot-query-parameters Query parameters as JSON Ex: {"state": dismissed} N/A
create-artifact Whether to create an artifact true

⬅️ Outputs

Name Description
dependabot Dependabot alerts as a JSON string
code-scanning Code scanning alerts as a JSON string
secret-scanning Secret scanning alerts as a JSON string
artifact-name The name of the artifact

Further help

To get more help on the Actions see documentation.