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code-vuln-audit

Scan code for security issues: dependency vulnerabilities (npm/pip audit), secret leaks (regex and entropy analysis), and OWASP anti-patterns like SQL injection, XSS, or command injection. Use when the user mentions security scans, vulnerability detection, secret leaks, API keys, OWASP, npm audit, pip-audit, hardcoded passwords, or code security checks.

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code-vuln-audit

A code security scanning tool with three core scanning capabilities:

  1. Dependency Vulnerability Scanning — Automatically detects known vulnerabilities in npm / pip dependencies
  2. Secret Leak Detection — Discovers hardcoded secrets, tokens, and passwords via regex matching + Shannon entropy analysis
  3. OWASP Pattern Detection — Identifies common security anti-patterns such as SQL injection, XSS, command injection, and insecure deserialization

Quick Start

# Scan the current directory (all checks)
python3 scripts/security_scan.py .

# Scan dependencies only
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode deps .

# Detect secret leaks only
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode secrets /path/to/project

# Detect OWASP security patterns only
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --mode owasp .

# Output report in JSON format
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --format json --output report.json .

# Only show findings at high severity and above
python3 scripts/security_scan.py --severity high .

Scan Module Details

1. Dependency Vulnerability Scanning (deps)

Automatically detects the project type and invokes the appropriate tool:

Project TypeDetection FileTool Used
Node.jspackage.json + package-lock.jsonnpm audit
Pythonrequirements.txt / pyproject.toml / Pipfilepip-audit

If the corresponding audit tool is not installed, a helpful message is displayed instead of an error.

2. Secret Leak Detection (secrets)

Detection is performed in two ways:

Regex Matching: Covers common secret formats

Secret TypeExample Pattern
AWS Access Key20-character string starting with AKIA
GitHub TokenStarts with ghp_ or github_pat_
Slack TokenStarts with xoxb- or xoxp-
Stripe KeyStarts with sk_live_ or pk_live_
Private Key File-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
Generic API KeyFormat like api_key = "..."
Credentials in URLhttps://user:pass@host
JWT TokeneyJ... format

Shannon Entropy Analysis: Computes information entropy for string constants in code (threshold > 4.5 and length >= 20) to discover secrets in non-standard formats.

3. OWASP Pattern Detection (owasp)

Covers statically detectable security patterns from the OWASP Top 10:

OWASP CategoryDetection Patterns
A02: Cryptographic FailuresWeak hashes (MD5/SHA1), weak ciphers (DES/RC4)
A03: InjectionSQL injection, command injection (os.system / subprocess shell / eval / exec), XSS (innerHTML / document.write / dangerouslySetInnerHTML / v-html)
A04: Insecure DesignPath traversal
A05: Security MisconfigurationDebug mode enabled, CORS wildcard, binding to 0.0.0.0
A08: Integrity FailuresInsecure deserialization (pickle / yaml.load / marshal / unserialize)
A10: SSRFUser input passed directly to HTTP requests

Supported languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, PHP, Ruby, Go, and more.

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefault
TARGETDirectory to scanCurrent directory
--mode MODEScan mode: all, deps, secrets, owaspall
--format FORMATOutput format: text, jsontext
--output FILEOutput file pathstdout
--severity LEVELMinimum reporting level: low, medium, high, criticallow
--exclude-dir DIRAdditional directories to exclude (repeatable)-
--max-file-kb SIZEMaximum file size to scan in KB512
-h, --helpShow help-

Output Format

Text Output (default)

=== Security Scan Report ===
Target: /path/to/project
Modules: deps, secrets, owasp

[CRITICAL] AWS Access Key ID
  File: src/config.py:15
  Code: AWS_KEY = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"

[HIGH] SQL Injection (f-string)
  File: src/db.py:42
  Code: cursor.execute(f"SELECT * FROM users WHERE id={user_id}")

--- Summary ---
Critical: 1 | High: 1 | Medium: 0 | Low: 0
Total findings: 2

JSON Output

{
  "target": "/path/to/project",
  "scan_time": "2026-04-14T10:30:00",
  "findings": [
    {
      "scanner": "secrets",
      "name": "AWS Access Key ID",
      "severity": "critical",
      "file": "src/config.py",
      "line": 15,
      "snippet": "AWS_KEY = \"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE\"",
      "category": "secret-pattern"
    }
  ],
  "summary": {"critical": 1, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "total": 1}
}

Exit Codes

Exit CodeMeaning
0No findings
1Findings present (at least one security issue)
2Scanner internal error

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.7+ (uses standard library only)
  • Dependency scanning requires the corresponding tools: npm (for Node.js projects), pip-audit (for Python projects)
  • If an audit tool is missing, that module will be skipped with a notice — other modules continue to run normally
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