NOTICE
Ochrona is no longer under active development. The accompanying Python Vulnerability Repository is also no longer receiving regular updates.
- Overview
- Installation
- Configuration
- Policies
- SBOM
- Static Analysis Beta
- Usage Examples
- Output Formats
- Represent!
Ochrona is a free solution for securing the dependencies used in Python projects. Ochrona also includes support for policies which give you additional control over what aspects of your dependency usage you'd like to be alerted on.
The Ochrona maintainers care deeply about Developer Experience (DX), if you have any feedback or run into issues please open an issue here.
Ochrona maintains its own database of vulnerabilities impacting Python packages. You're welcome to check out the database here. This database is updated frequently using data from NVD, Github, and other sources. Ochrona will update its local copy of the database if a new version exists.
*requirements*.txtPipfile.lockpoetry.locksetup.py*constraints*.txtenvironment.ymltox.ini
pip install ochrona
pipenv install --dev ochrona
poetry add -D ochrona
| Arg | Description | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
--dir |
Directory to recursively search for dependencies files to scan [.] | path | /User/me/my_project |
--exclude_dir |
Directory names that should be excluded from recursive search. Comma separated | str | build,dev |
--file |
Single dependency file to scan | file | /User/me/my_project/requirements.txt |
--debug |
Enable debug logging [False] | bool | True |
--silent |
Silent mode [False] | bool | True |
--report_type |
The report type that's desired [BASIC] | str | XML |
--output |
Location for report output | path | /User/me/my_project/logs |
--exit |
Exit with Code 0 regardless of vulnerability findings. [False] | bool | True |
--ignore |
Ignore a CVE or package | str | requests |
--include_dev |
Include develop dependencies from Pipfile.lock [False] | bool | True |
--sbom |
Must be provided, along with --output to generate an SBOM [False] |
bool | True |
--sbom_format |
Whether the generated SBOM should be a JSON or XML file. [JSON] | str | JSON |
--enable_sast |
Whether SAST checks should be run [False] | bool | True |
--sast_id_exclude |
Whether a SAST check should be ignored | str | O001 |
--sast_dir |
Which directory should SAST checks run against | path | /User/me/my_project/src |
| Variable Name | Corresponding Arg |
|---|---|
| OCHRONA_DEBUG_LOGGING | --debug |
| OCHRONA_IGNORED_VULNS | --ignore |
There is an empty .ochrona.yml file included in the repo.
| Key | Description | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
dir |
Directory to recursively search for dependencies files to scan [.] | path | /User/me/my_project |
exclude_dir |
Directory names that should be excluded from recursive search. | array | build |
file |
Single dependency file to scan | file | /User/me/my_project/requirements.txt |
debug |
Enable debug logging [false] | bool | true |
silent |
Silent mode [false] | bool | true |
report_type |
The report type that's desired [BASIC] | str | XML |
report_location |
Location for report output [.] | path | /User/me/my_project/logs |
exit |
Exit with Code 0 regardless of vulnerability findings [false] | bool | true |
ignore |
Ignore a CVE or package name. Supports multiple values. | str | requests |
include_dev |
Include develop dependencies from files that support dev/required dependencies [false] | bool | true |
color_output |
Whether or not std out text should use color. Note: this is enabled by default when running in a non-Windows environment [true] | bool | false |
policies |
Policies are a way of defining additional checks against your dependencies. See here for more details | array | details |
sbom |
SBOM will only be generated if this argument is supplied. report_location also must be specified to generate an SBOM. See here for more details about SBOMs [false] |
bool | false |
sbom_format |
Whether the generated SBOM should be a JSON or XML file. [JSON] | str | JSON |
enable_sast |
Whether SAST checks should be run [False] | bool | true |
sast_id_exclude |
Whether a SAST check should be ignored. See list of SAST IDs here. Supports multiple values. | str | O001 |
sast_dir |
Which directory should SAST checks run against. [.] | path | /User/me/my_project/src |
Example:
# debug: true
# silent: false
# dir: .
# report_type: JSON
# report_location: .
# ignore:
# - requests
# include_dev: false
# color_output: false
# policies:
# - license_type NIN APSL,GPL-PA,JSON
# sbom: true
# sbom_format: JSON
# enable_sast: true
# sast_id_exclude:
# - O001
# sast_dir: ./src
Policies are a way to add additional check to your Python dependency usage. Policies can be defined using conditional and logical syntax. These generic policy definitions allow you to define unique, custom policies to fit your need, and they can be extensible as new fields and capabilities are added.
Policy vioations are not the same as vulnerabilities, however violations will cause Ochrona to emit a failure exit code and the output will include details about the policy violation.
At their most basic, policies are defined using conditional statements and logical operators. A conditional statement is structured as <field><operator><value>, for example, license_type == MIT. Whitespace is always ignored during policy evaluation.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
name |
The name of a package. |
license_type |
An SPDX license type for a package. |
latest_version |
The most recent version of a package. |
latest_update |
The timestamp for when a package was last updated. ISO-8601 Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM-SS.ffffffZ |
release_count |
The number of releases a package has on Pypi. |
| Operator | Description |
|---|---|
== |
An equals operator for comparing exact string matches. |
!= |
A NOT equals operators for non-matching strings. |
< |
Less than, for comparing numerical or string values. |
<= |
Less than or equal to. |
> |
Greater than, for comparing numerical or string values. |
>= |
Greater than or equal to. |
IN |
For checking whether a value exists within a set. Values used with IN should be comma separated. |
NIN |
For checking that a value does not exist within a set. Values used with NIN should be comma separated. |
| Operator | Description |
|---|---|
AND |
For checking that both adjacent conditions are true. |
OR |
For checking that at least one adjacent condition is true. |
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
NOW-N |
Shorthand for an ISO 8601 formatted date in the past. N will be an integer number of days. |
* |
Match ANY value, only works with == operator. |
Policies allow the usage of ( and ) to indicate evaluation precedence and grouping.
Example (license_type==Apache-2.0 OR license_type==MIT) AND latest_update < NOW-30
# Policy to check that a license type is in my aproved list
license_type IN MIT,ISC,Apache-2.0
# Policy to check that all packages have been updated this year
latest_update >= NOW-365
Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) are a list of the components used to build a piece of software. They aim to make the delivery and composition of software components more transparent. These documents can be useful for understanding software supply chains and ensuring license complaince.
Ochrona has opted to support (CycloneDX)[https://cyclonedx.org/] as our SBOM standard of choice. CycloneDX is a lightweight software bill of materials (SBOM) standard designed for use in application security contexts and supply chain component analysis. CycloneDX is developed and support by (OWASP)[https://owasp.org/www-project-cyclonedx/].
To enable sbom generation, the --sbom and --output arguements needs to be provided.
Ochrona has introduced limited Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in version 2.0.0 as a beta feature. These check are run if the --enable_sast argument is provided. It will run recursively against all .py files found in the current working directory.
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
O001 |
Checks for use of "exec" from the Standard Library. |
O002 |
Checks for use of "eval" from the Standard Library. |
O003 |
Checks for use of the "assert" keyword. |
O004 |
Checks for use of "tarfile.extractall" from the Standard Library. |
O005 |
Checks for use of "pickle.loads" from the Standard Library. |
O006 |
Checks for use of "xml.etree.ElementTree.parse" from the Standard Library. |
O101 |
Checks for use of "load" from PyYAML. |
O102 |
Checks for usage of Requests with verify=False. |
O103 |
Checks for usage of Flask with debug=True. |
$ ochrona
This will search for any supported dependency files recursively from the run location. It will output rules in the BASIC
format to stdout. The program will exit with an error exit code if any confirmed vulnerabilities are found.
$ ochrona --exit --report_type XML --output ./output
In this mode ochrona acts as a safe wrapper around standard pip installs to ensure that a package and it's dependencies are safe before installing. This action preemptively checks a package and only imports if no vulnerabilities are found. It can be used with a base package (i.e. requests), or with a package pinned to an exact version (i.e. requests==2.21.0). It also supports importing a requirements.txt style, the pip equivalent of pip install -r <file>.
$ ochrona --install <package_name>|<requirements.txt>
Ochrona supports supplying dependencies via stdin and can accept a PEP-508 complaint (i.e. requirements.txt) formated string, or a single dependency. Single dependencies can be supplied as the first argument or piped.
$ ochrona urllib3==1.26.4
$ echo "urllib3==1.26.4" | ochrona
$ pip freeze | ochrona
$ pipenv lock -r | ochrona
$ cat requirements.txt | ochrona
Ochrona can be run via Docker. This is useful for the paranoid who may worry that an installed module could have modified the Python package namespace and allow malicious packages to bypass Ochrona's security checks. We've added this support in response to CVE-2020-5252 which was disclosed prior to Ochrona and affects several other similar tools.
$ pip freeze | docker run -i --rm ochrona/ochrona ochrona
$ pip freeze | docker run -i -e OCHRONA_IGNORED_VULNS=requests --rm ochrona/ochrona ochrona
Ochrona supports several built in output options include a BASIC and FULL plaintext reports, a Junit style XML report, a JSON style report for incorporating with other tools, and and HTML summarized report.
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