prisma-cloud-scan
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GitHub action to scan container images with Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Cloud
Prisma Cloud Scan Action
IMPORTANT: Please see SUPPORT.md for the official support policy for the contents of this repository.
This GitHub Action will scan container images for vulnerabilities and compliance issues using Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. With it, you can receive immediate feedback about image vulnerabilities and compliance violations both in GitHub and in the Prisma Cloud Console as well as block builds that do not meet your compliance requirements, such as high or critical vulnerabilities.
This action is a wrapper around twistcli which connects to the specified Prisma Cloud Console for vulnerability and compliance policy and metadata.
Usage
Example of container image scanning
on: [ push, workflow_dispatch ]
env:
IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.sha }}
jobs:
build-and-scan:
name: Build and scan image
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Check out the repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Build the image
run: docker build -t $IMAGE_NAME .
- name: Prisma Cloud image scan
id: scan
uses: PaloAltoNetworks/[email protected]
with:
pcc_console_url: ${{ secrets.PCC_CONSOLE_URL }}
pcc_user: ${{ secrets.PCC_USER }}
pcc_pass: ${{ secrets.PCC_PASS }}
image_name: ${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}
# (Optional) for compatibility with GitHub's code scanning alerts
- name: Upload SARIF file
if: ${{ always() }} # necessary if using failure thresholds in the image scan
uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
with:
sarif_file: ${{ steps.scan.outputs.sarif_file }}
Properties
Environment variables
Variable | Description | Required? | Default |
---|---|---|---|
DOCKER_ADDRESS |
Address of the Docker daemon (e.g. tcp://localhost:2375) | No | |
DOCKER_HOST |
Address of the Docker daemon (e.g. tcp://localhost:2375). DOCKER_ADDRESS takes priority. |
No |
Inputs
Input | Description | Required? | Default |
---|---|---|---|
pcc_console_url |
URL of your Prisma Cloud Compute Console | Yes | |
pcc_user |
Username of a user with the CI user role | Yes | |
pcc_pass |
Password of a user with the CI user role | Yes | |
image_name |
Name (or ID) of the image to be scanned | Yes | |
project |
Tenant project context for the command | No | |
results_file |
File to which scan results are written in JSON | No | pcc_scan_results.json |
sarif_file |
File to which scan results are written in SARIF | No | pcc_scan_results.sarif.json |
docker_address |
Address of the Docker daemon (e.g. tcp://localhost:2375) | No | |
docker_tlscacert |
Path to the Docker CA certificate | No | |
docker_tlscert |
Path to the Docker client certificate | No | |
docker_tlskey |
Path to the Docker client private key | No | |
twistcli_debug |
Activate the debug flag for prisma cli (by default deactivated) | No |
Outputs
Output | Description |
---|---|
results_file |
File to which scan results are written in JSON |
sarif_file |
File to which scan results are written in SARIF |
Control alerting and fail thresholds
You can set the level for alerting and failing builds in the Prisma Cloud UI. For example, setting the alert threshold to Medium will not alert for Low severity vulnerabilities.

Results output
The table of discovered vulnerabilities and compliance violations shows up in the GitHub workflow log and in the Prisma Cloud Console in the Monitor section. If you upload the outputted SARIF file to GitHub, you will also populate the code scanning alerts section in your repository. While the code-scan-to-image-scan mapping isn't perfect, it does provide all available information of each vulnerability and compliance issue. The alerts will automatically close once the issues are fixed and the workflow is ran again.
GitHub workflow log

Prisma Cloud Console view

GitHub code scanning alerts

Support
Please read SUPPORT.md for details on how to get support for this project.