siberaindustries/dotnet-retire

CLI extension to check your project for known vulnerabilities

Build status

Build server	Platform	Status
AppVeyor	Windows
Travis	Linux
Azure DevOps	Linux

Components

• dotnet-retire

• RetireNet.Runtimes.Middleware

• RetireNet.Runtimes.BackgroundServices

dotnet-retire

A dotnet CLI extension to check your project for known vulnerabilities.

Install

$ dotnet tool install -g dotnet-retire

Usage

$ dotnet retire

Additional options:

• [--loglevel] {Trace|Debug|Information|Warning|Error|Critical} (default: Information)
• [--rooturl] <URL_TO_FEED> (default: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetireNet/Packages/master/index.json)
• [--ignore-failures] {true|false} to always return a zero exit code (default: false)
• [-p|--path] <PATH> to .csproj or .sln file (default: current directory)

Sample:

$ dotnet retire --loglevel debug

Sample output:

How does it work?

It fetches the packages listed in the corresponding packages repo in this GitHub organization (link), and checks your projects obj\project.assets.json or project.lock.json file for any match (direct, or transient).

Keeping the list of packages up to date will be done via updating that repo when announcements occur from Microsoft with additional json files with links to announcements from Microsofts security team.

Other projects with similar functionality:

SafeNuGet

Runs as part of the build (MSBuild target). Analyzes packages.config, does not handle transient dependencies.

DevAudit

Standalone .NET console app that analyzes a packages.config. Analyzes packages.config, does not handle transient dependencies.

RetireNet.Runtimes.Middleware

We cannot detect the runtime of the app at build time, so to report use of vulnerable runtimes the app itself, the host itself can provide us reports

Install

$ dotnet add package RetireNet.Runtimes.Middleware

Usage

Add it to your ASP.NET Core pipeline on your preferred path:

app.Map("/report", a => a.UseRuntimeVulnerabilityReport());

What does it do?

It will fetch the releases listed in the official metadata API provided by Microsoft, and check if your app is running on a runtime with known CVEs.

Metadata endpoint used: https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/release-metadata/releases-index.json

Sample output

An app running on the vulnerable 2.1.11 runtime on macOS:

{
    "isVulnerable": true,
    "appRuntimeDetails": {
        "os": "OSX",
        "osPlatform": "Darwin 18.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.6.0: Thu Apr 25 23:16:27 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.261.4~2/RELEASE_X86_64",
        "osArchitecture": "X64",
        "osBits": "64",
        "appTargetFramework": ".NETCoreApp,Version=v2.1",
        "appRuntimeVersion": "2.1.11",
        "appBits": "64"
    },
    "securityRelease": {
        "runtimeVersion": "2.1.13",
        "cvEs": [
            {
                "cve-id": " CVE-2018-8269",
                "cve-url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8269"
            },
            {
                "cve-id": " CVE-2019-1301",
                "cve-url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1301"
            },
            {
                "cve-id": " CVE-2019-1302",
                "cve-url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1302"
            }
        ]
    }
}

RetireNet.Runtimes.BackgroundServices

This is the same report as for the middleware, only logging it using the configured ILogger as a WARN log statment.

Install

$ dotnet add package RetireNet.Runtimes.BackgroundServices

Usage

Register it into the container, and provide it a interval in milliseconds how often you would like the check to execute.

services.AddRetireRuntimeHostedService(c => c.CheckInterval = 60000)

What does it do?

The same as for the middleware endpoint.

Sample output

An app running on the vulnerable 2.1.11 runtime on macOS, using the ConsoleLogger:

warn: RetireNet.Runtimes.BackgroundServices.RetireRuntimeBackgroundService[0]
      Running on vulnerable runtime 2.1.11. Security release 2.1.13