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For commercial support options with Syft or Grype, please [contact Anchore](https://get.anchore.com/contact/)  ## Features - Generates SBOMs for container images, filesystems, archives, and more to discover packages and libraries - Supports OCI, Docker and [Singularity](https://github.com/sylabs/singularity) image formats - Linux distribution identification - Works seamlessly with [Grype](https://github.com/anchore/grype) (a fast, modern vulnerability scanner) - Able to create signed SBOM attestations using the [in-toto specification](https://github.com/in-toto/attestation/blob/main/spec/README.md) - Convert between SBOM formats, such as CycloneDX, SPDX, and Syft's own format. ### Supported Ecosystems - Alpine (apk) - C (conan) - C++ (conan) - Dart (pubs) - Debian (dpkg) - Dotnet (deps.json) - Objective-C (cocoapods) - Elixir (mix) - Erlang (rebar3) - Go (go.mod, Go binaries) - Haskell (cabal, stack) - Java (jar, ear, war, par, sar, native-image) - JavaScript (npm, yarn) - Jenkins Plugins (jpi, hpi) - PHP (composer) - Python (wheel, egg, poetry, requirements.txt) - Red Hat (rpm) - Ruby (gem) - Rust (cargo.lock) - Swift (cocoapods) ## Installation **Note**: Currently, Syft is built only for Linux, macOS and Windows. ### Recommended ```bash curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/syft/main/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin ``` ... or, you can specify a release version and destination directory for the installation: ``` curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/syft/main/install.sh | sh -s -- -b ``` ### Chocolatey The chocolatey distribution of syft is community maintained and not distributed by the anchore team ```powershell choco install syft -y ``` ### Homebrew ```bash brew install syft ``` ### Nix **Note**: Nix packaging of Syft is [community maintained](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/admin/syft/default.nix). Syft is available in the [stable channel](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_channels#The_official_channels) since NixOS `22.05`. ```bash nix-env -i syft ``` ... or, just try it out in an ephemeral nix shell: ```bash nix-shell -p syft ``` ## Getting started ### SBOM To generate an SBOM for a container image: ``` syft ``` The above output includes only software that is visible in the container (i.e., the squashed representation of the image). To include software from all image layers in the SBOM, regardless of its presence in the final image, provide `--scope all-layers`: ``` syft --scope all-layers ``` ## Supported sources Syft can generate a SBOM from a variety of sources: ``` # catalog a container image archive (from the result of `docker image save ...`, `podman save ...`, or `skopeo copy` commands) syft path/to/image.tar # catalog a Singularity Image Format (SIF) container syft path/to/image.sif # catalog a directory syft path/to/dir ``` Sources can be explicitly provided with a scheme: ``` docker:yourrepo/yourimage:tag use images from the Docker daemon podman:yourrepo/yourimage:tag use images from the Podman daemon docker-archive:path/to/yourimage.tar use a tarball from disk for archives created from "docker save" oci-archive:path/to/yourimage.tar use a tarball from disk for OCI archives (from Skopeo or otherwise) oci-dir:path/to/yourimage read directly from a path on disk for OCI layout directories (from Skopeo or otherwise) singularity:path/to/yourimage.sif read directly from a Singularity Image Format (SIF) container on disk dir:path/to/yourproject read directly from a path on disk (any directory) file:path/to/yourproject/file read directly from a path on disk (any single file) registry:yourrepo/yourimage:tag pull image directly from a registry (no container runtime required) ``` #### Default Cataloger Configuration by scan type ##### Image Scanning: - alpmdb - rpmdb - dpkgdb - apkdb - portage - ruby-gemspec - python-package - php-composer-installed Cataloger - javascript-package - java - go-module-binary - dotnet-deps ##### Directory Scanning: - alpmdb - apkdb - dpkgdb - portage - rpmdb - ruby-gemfile - python-index - python-package - php-composer-lock - javascript-lock - java - java-pom - go-module-binary - go-mod-file - rust-cargo-lock - dartlang-lock - dotnet-deps - cocoapods - conan - hackage #### Non Default: - cargo-auditable-binary ### Excluding file paths Syft can exclude files and paths from being scanned within a source by using glob expressions with one or more `--exclude` parameters: ``` syft --exclude './out/**/*.json' --exclude /etc ``` **Note:** in the case of _image scanning_, since the entire filesystem is scanned it is possible to use absolute paths like `/etc` or `/usr/**/*.txt` whereas _directory scans_ exclude files _relative to the specified directory_. For example: scanning `/usr/foo` with `--exclude ./package.json` would exclude `/usr/foo/package.json` and `--exclude '**/package.json'` would exclude all `package.json` files under `/usr/foo`. For _directory scans_, it is required to begin path expressions with `./`, `*/`, or `**/`, all of which will be resolved _relative to the specified scan directory_. Keep in mind, your shell may attempt to expand wildcards, so put those parameters in single quotes, like: `'**/*.json'`. ### Output formats The output format for Syft is configurable as well using the `-o` (or `--output`) option: ``` syft -o ``` Where the `formats` available are: - `json`: Use this to get as much information out of Syft as possible! - `text`: A row-oriented, human-and-machine-friendly output. - `cyclonedx-xml`: A XML report conforming to the [CycloneDX 1.4 specification](https://cyclonedx.org/specification/overview/). - `cyclonedx-json`: A JSON report conforming to the [CycloneDX 1.4 specification](https://cyclonedx.org/specification/overview/). - `spdx-tag-value`: A tag-value formatted report conforming to the [SPDX 2.2 specification](https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/). - `spdx-json`: A JSON report conforming to the [SPDX 2.2 JSON Schema](https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/blob/v2.2/schemas/spdx-schema.json). - `github`: A JSON report conforming to GitHub's dependency snapshot format. - `table`: A columnar summary (default). - `template`: Lets the user specify the output format. See ["Using templates"](#using-templates) below. ## Using templates Syft lets you define custom output formats, using [Go templates](https://pkg.go.dev/text/template). Here's how it works: - Define your format as a Go template, and save this template as a file. - Set the output format to "template" (`-o template`). - Specify the path to the template file (`-t ./path/to/custom.template`). - Syft's template processing uses the same data models as the `json` output format — so if you're wondering what data is available as you author a template, you can use the output from `syft -o json` as a reference. **Example:** You could make Syft output data in CSV format by writing a Go template that renders CSV data and then running `syft -o template -t ~/path/to/csv.tmpl`. Here's what the `csv.tmpl` file might look like: ```gotemplate "Package","Version Installed","Found by" {{- range .Artifacts}} "{{.Name}}","{{.Version}}","{{.FoundBy}}" {{- end}} ``` Which would produce output like: ```text "Package","Version Installed","Found by" "alpine-baselayout","3.2.0-r20","apkdb-cataloger" "alpine-baselayout-data","3.2.0-r20","apkdb-cataloger" "alpine-keys","2.4-r1","apkdb-cataloger" ... ``` Syft also includes a vast array of utility templating functions from [sprig](http://masterminds.github.io/sprig/) apart from the default Golang [text/template](https://pkg.go.dev/text/template#hdr-Functions) to allow users to customize the output format. ## Multiple outputs Syft can also output _multiple_ files in differing formats by appending `=` to the option, for example to output Syft JSON and SPDX JSON: ```shell syft -o json=sbom.syft.json -o spdx-json=sbom.spdx.json ``` ## Private Registry Authentication ### Local Docker Credentials When a container runtime is not present, Syft can still utilize credentials configured in common credential sources (such as `~/.docker/config.json`). It will pull images from private registries using these credentials. The config file is where your credentials are stored when authenticating with private registries via some command like `docker login`. For more information see the `go-containerregistry` [documentation](https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/pkg/authn). An example `config.json` looks something like this: ```json { "auths": { "registry.example.com": { "username": "AzureDiamond", "password": "hunter2" } } } ``` You can run the following command as an example. It details the mount/environment configuration a container needs to access a private registry: ``` docker run -v ./config.json:/config/config.json -e "DOCKER_CONFIG=/config" anchore/syft:latest ``` ### Docker Credentials in Kubernetes Here's a simple workflow to mount this config file as a secret into a container on Kubernetes. 1. Create a secret. The value of `config.json` is important. It refers to the specification detailed [here](https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/pkg/authn#the-config-file). Below this section is the `secret.yaml` file that the pod configuration will consume as a volume. The key `config.json` is important. It will end up being the name of the file when mounted into the pod. ```yaml # secret.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: registry-config namespace: syft data: config.json: ``` `kubectl apply -f secret.yaml` 2. Create your pod running syft. The env `DOCKER_CONFIG` is important because it advertises where to look for the credential file. In the below example, setting `DOCKER_CONFIG=/config` informs syft that credentials can be found at `/config/config.json`. This is why we used `config.json` as the key for our secret. When mounted into containers the secrets' key is used as the filename. The `volumeMounts` section mounts our secret to `/config`. The `volumes` section names our volume and leverages the secret we created in step one. ```yaml # pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: syft-k8s-usage spec: containers: - image: anchore/syft:latest name: syft-private-registry-demo env: - name: DOCKER_CONFIG value: /config volumeMounts: - mountPath: /config name: registry-config readOnly: true args: - volumes: - name: registry-config secret: secretName: registry-config ``` `kubectl apply -f pod.yaml` 3. The user can now run `kubectl logs syft-private-registry-demo`. The logs should show the Syft analysis for the `` provided in the pod configuration. Using the above information, users should be able to configure private registry access without having to do so in the `grype` or `syft` configuration files. They will also not be dependent on a Docker daemon, (or some other runtime software) for registry configuration and access. ## Format conversion (experimental) The ability to convert existing SBOMs means you can create SBOMs in different formats quickly, without the need to regenerate the SBOM from scratch, which may take significantly more time. ``` syft convert -o [=] ``` This feature is experimental and data might be lost when converting formats. Packages are the main SBOM component easily transferable across formats, whereas files and relationships, as well as other information Syft doesn't support, are more likely to be lost. We support formats with wide community usage AND good encode/decode support by Syft. The supported formats are: - Syft JSON - SPDX 2.2 JSON - SPDX 2.2 tag-value - CycloneDX 1.4 JSON - CycloneDX 1.4 XML Conversion example: ```sh syft alpine:latest -o syft-json=sbom.syft.json # generate a syft SBOM syft convert sbom.syft.json -o cyclonedx-json=sbom.cdx.json # convert it to CycloneDX ``` ## Attestation (experimental) ### Keyless support Syft supports generating attestations using cosign's [keyless](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/blob/main/KEYLESS.md) signatures. Note: users need to have >= v1.12.0 of cosign installed for this command to function To use this feature with a format like CycloneDX json simply run: ``` syft attest --output cyclonedx-json ``` This command will open a web browser and allow the user to authenticate their OIDC identity as the root of trust for the attestation (Github, Google, Microsoft). After authenticating, Syft will upload the attestation to the OCI registry specified by the image that the user has write access to. You will need to make sure your credentials are configured for the OCI registry you are uploading to so that the attestation can write successfully. Users can then verify the attestation(or any image with attestations) by running: ``` COSIGN_EXPERIMENTAL=1 cosign verify-attestation ``` Users should see that the uploaded attestation claims are validated, the claims exist within the transparency log, and certificates on the attestations were verified against [fulcio](https://github.com/SigStore/fulcio). There will also be a printout of the certificates subject `` and the certificate issuer URL: ``: ``` Certificate subject: test.email@testdomain.com Certificate issuer URL: https://accounts.google.com ``` #### Local private key support To generate an SBOM attestation for a container image using a local private key: ``` syft attest --output [FORMAT] --key [KEY] [SOURCE] [flags] ``` The above output is in the form of the [DSSE envelope](https://github.com/secure-systems-lab/dsse/blob/master/envelope.md#dsse-envelope). The payload is a base64 encoded `in-toto` statement with the generated SBOM as the predicate. For details on workflows using this command see [here](#adding-an-sbom-to-an-image-as-an-attestation-using-syft). ## Configuration Configuration search paths: - `.syft.yaml` - `.syft/config.yaml` - `~/.syft.yaml` - `/syft/config.yaml` Configuration options (example values are the default): ```yaml # the output format(s) of the SBOM report (options: table, text, json, spdx, ...) # same as -o, --output, and SYFT_OUTPUT env var # to specify multiple output files in differing formats, use a list: # output: # - "json=" # - "spdx-json=" output: "table" # suppress all output (except for the SBOM report) # same as -q ; SYFT_QUIET env var quiet: false # same as --file; write output report to a file (default is to write to stdout) file: "" # enable/disable checking for application updates on startup # same as SYFT_CHECK_FOR_APP_UPDATE env var check-for-app-update: true # a list of globs to exclude from scanning. same as --exclude ; for example: # exclude: # - "/etc/**" # - "./out/**/*.json" exclude: [] # os and/or architecture to use when referencing container images (e.g. "windows/armv6" or "arm64") # same as --platform; SYFT_PLATFORM env var platform: "" # set the list of package catalogers to use when generating the SBOM # default = empty (cataloger set determined automatically by the source type [image or file/directory]) # catalogers: # - ruby-gemfile # - ruby-gemspec # - python-index # - python-package # - javascript-lock # - javascript-package # - php-composer-installed # - php-composer-lock # - alpmdb # - dpkgdb # - rpmdb # - java # - apkdb # - go-module-binary # - go-mod-file # - dartlang-lock # - rust # - dotnet-deps # rust-audit-binary scans Rust binaries built with https://github.com/Shnatsel/rust-audit # - rust-audit-binary catalogers: # cataloging packages is exposed through the packages and power-user subcommands package: # search within archives that do contain a file index to search against (zip) # note: for now this only applies to the java package cataloger # SYFT_PACKAGE_SEARCH_INDEXED_ARCHIVES env var search-indexed-archives: true # search within archives that do not contain a file index to search against (tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc) # note: enabling this may result in a performance impact since all discovered compressed tars will be decompressed # note: for now this only applies to the java package cataloger # SYFT_PACKAGE_SEARCH_UNINDEXED_ARCHIVES env var search-unindexed-archives: false cataloger: # enable/disable cataloging of packages # SYFT_PACKAGE_CATALOGER_ENABLED env var enabled: true # the search space to look for packages (options: all-layers, squashed) # same as -s ; SYFT_PACKAGE_CATALOGER_SCOPE env var scope: "squashed" # cataloging file contents is exposed through the power-user subcommand file-contents: cataloger: # enable/disable cataloging of secrets # SYFT_FILE_CONTENTS_CATALOGER_ENABLED env var enabled: true # the search space to look for secrets (options: all-layers, squashed) # SYFT_FILE_CONTENTS_CATALOGER_SCOPE env var scope: "squashed" # skip searching a file entirely if it is above the given size (default = 1MB; unit = bytes) # SYFT_FILE_CONTENTS_SKIP_FILES_ABOVE_SIZE env var skip-files-above-size: 1048576 # file globs for the cataloger to match on # SYFT_FILE_CONTENTS_GLOBS env var globs: [] # cataloging file metadata is exposed through the power-user subcommand file-metadata: cataloger: # enable/disable cataloging of file metadata # SYFT_FILE_METADATA_CATALOGER_ENABLED env var enabled: true # the search space to look for file metadata (options: all-layers, squashed) # SYFT_FILE_METADATA_CATALOGER_SCOPE env var scope: "squashed" # the file digest algorithms to use when cataloging files (options: "sha256", "md5", "sha1") # SYFT_FILE_METADATA_DIGESTS env var digests: ["sha256"] # maximum number of workers used to process the list of package catalogers in parallel parallelism: 1 # cataloging secrets is exposed through the power-user subcommand secrets: cataloger: # enable/disable cataloging of secrets # SYFT_SECRETS_CATALOGER_ENABLED env var enabled: true # the search space to look for secrets (options: all-layers, squashed) # SYFT_SECRETS_CATALOGER_SCOPE env var scope: "all-layers" # show extracted secret values in the final JSON report # SYFT_SECRETS_REVEAL_VALUES env var reveal-values: false # skip searching a file entirely if it is above the given size (default = 1MB; unit = bytes) # SYFT_SECRETS_SKIP_FILES_ABOVE_SIZE env var skip-files-above-size: 1048576 # name-regex pairs to consider when searching files for secrets. Note: the regex must match single line patterns # but may also have OPTIONAL multiline capture groups. Regexes with a named capture group of "value" will # use the entire regex to match, but the secret value will be assumed to be entirely contained within the # "value" named capture group. additional-patterns: {} # names to exclude from the secrets search, valid values are: "aws-access-key", "aws-secret-key", "pem-private-key", # "docker-config-auth", and "generic-api-key". Note: this does not consider any names introduced in the # "secrets.additional-patterns" config option. # SYFT_SECRETS_EXCLUDE_PATTERN_NAMES env var exclude-pattern-names: [] # options when pulling directly from a registry via the "registry:" scheme registry: # skip TLS verification when communicating with the registry # SYFT_REGISTRY_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY env var insecure-skip-tls-verify: false # use http instead of https when connecting to the registry # SYFT_REGISTRY_INSECURE_USE_HTTP env var insecure-use-http: false # credentials for specific registries auth: # the URL to the registry (e.g. "docker.io", "localhost:5000", etc.) # SYFT_REGISTRY_AUTH_AUTHORITY env var - authority: "" # SYFT_REGISTRY_AUTH_USERNAME env var username: "" # SYFT_REGISTRY_AUTH_PASSWORD env var password: "" # note: token and username/password are mutually exclusive # SYFT_REGISTRY_AUTH_TOKEN env var token: "" # - ... # note, more credentials can be provided via config file only # generate an attested SBOM attest: # path to the private key file to use for attestation # SYFT_ATTEST_KEY env var key: "cosign.key" # password to decrypt to given private key # SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD env var, additionally responds to COSIGN_PASSWORD password: "" log: # use structured logging # same as SYFT_LOG_STRUCTURED env var structured: false # the log level; note: detailed logging suppress the ETUI # same as SYFT_LOG_LEVEL env var level: "error" # location to write the log file (default is not to have a log file) # same as SYFT_LOG_FILE env var file: "" ``` ### Adding an SBOM to an image as an attestation using Syft `syft attest --output [FORMAT] --key [KEY] [SOURCE] [flags]` SBOMs themselves can serve as input to different analysis tools. [Grype](https://github.com/anchore/grype), a vulnerability scanner CLI tool from Anchore, is one such tool. Publishers of container images can use attestations to enable their consumers to trust Syft-generated SBOM descriptions of those container images. To create and provide these attestations, image publishers can run `syft attest` in conjunction with the [cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign) tool to attach SBOM attestations to their images. #### Example attestation Note for the following example replace `docker.io/image:latest` with an image you own. You should also have push access to its remote reference. Replace `$MY_PRIVATE_KEY` with a private key you own or have generated with cosign. ```bash syft attest --key $MY_PRIVATE_KEY -o spdx-json docker.io/image:latest > image_latest_sbom_attestation.json cosign attach attestation --attestation image_latest_sbom_attestation.json docker.io/image:latest ``` Verify the new attestation exists on your image. ```bash cosign verify-attestation --key $MY_PUBLIC_KEY --type spdxjson docker.io/image:latest | jq '.payload | @base64d | .payload | fromjson | .predicate' ``` You should see this output along with the attached SBOM: ``` Verification for docker.io/image:latest -- The following checks were performed on each of these signatures: - The cosign claims were validated - The signatures were verified against the specified public key - Any certificates were verified against the Fulcio roots. ``` Consumers of your image can now trust that the SBOM associated with your image is correct and from a trusted source. The SBOM can be piped to Grype: ```bash cosign verify-attestation --key $MY_PUBLIC_KEY --type spdxjson docker.io/image:latest | jq '.payload | @base64d | .payload | fromjson | .predicate' | grype ```