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    In this article

    Code scanning

    The Code Scanning API enables you to retrieve and update the code scanning alerts and analyses from a repository.

    Code scanning is available if you have a license for GitHub Advanced Security.

    Note: Code scanning is in beta in GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22. For the generally available release of code scanning, upgrade to the latest release of GitHub Enterprise Server.

    The code scanning API lets you retrieve and update code scanning alerts from a repository. You can use the endpoints to create automated reports for the code scanning alerts in an organization or upload analysis results generated using offline code scanning tools. For more information, see "Finding security vulnerabilities and errors in your code."

    List code scanning alerts for a repository

    Lists all open code scanning alerts for the default branch (usually main or master). You must use an access token with the security_events scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the security_events read permission to use this endpoint.

    get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts

    Parameters

    Name Type In Description
    accept string header

    Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.
    owner string path
    repo string path
    tool_name string query

    The name of a code scanning tool. Only results by this tool will be listed. You can specify the tool by using either tool_name or tool_guid, but not both.
    tool_guid string query

    The GUID of a code scanning tool. Only results by this tool will be listed. Note that some code scanning tools may not include a GUID in their analysis data. You can specify the tool by using either tool_guid or tool_name, but not both.
    page integer query

    Page number of the results to fetch.

    Default: 1
    per_page integer query

    Results per page (max 100)

    Default: 30
    ref string query

    The Git reference for the results you want to list. The ref for a branch can be formatted either as refs/heads/<branch name> or simply <branch name>. To reference a pull request use refs/pull/<number>/merge.
    state string query

    Set to open, fixed, or dismissed to list code scanning alerts in a specific state.

    Code samples

    Shell
    curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  http(s)://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts
    JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)
    await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

    Response

    Status: 200 OK
    [
  {
    "number": 4,
    "created_at": "2020-02-13T12:29:18Z",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/4",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/4",
    "state": "open",
    "dismissed_by": null,
    "dismissed_at": null,
    "dismissed_reason": null,
    "rule": {
      "id": "js/zipslip",
      "severity": "error",
      "description": "Arbitrary file write during zip extraction",
      "name": "js/zipslip"
    },
    "tool": {
      "name": "CodeQL",
      "guid": null,
      "version": "2.4.0"
    },
    "instance": {
      "ref": "refs/heads/main",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:CodeQL-Build",
      "environment": "{}",
      "state": "open",
      "commit_sha": "39406e42cb832f683daa691dd652a8dc36ee8930",
      "message": {
        "text": "This path depends on a user-provided value."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "spec-main/api-session-spec.ts",
        "start_line": 917,
        "end_line": 917,
        "start_column": 7,
        "end_column": 18
      },
      "classifications": [
        "test"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "number": 3,
    "created_at": "2020-02-13T12:29:18Z",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/3",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/3",
    "state": "dismissed",
    "dismissed_by": {
      "login": "octocat",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "site_admin": false
    },
    "dismissed_at": "2020-02-14T12:29:18Z",
    "dismissed_reason": "false positive",
    "rule": {
      "id": "js/zipslip",
      "severity": "error",
      "description": "Arbitrary file write during zip extraction",
      "name": "js/zipslip"
    },
    "tool": {
      "name": "CodeQL",
      "guid": null,
      "version": "2.4.0"
    },
    "instance": {
      "ref": "refs/heads/main",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:CodeQL-Build",
      "environment": "{}",
      "state": "open",
      "commit_sha": "39406e42cb832f683daa691dd652a8dc36ee8930",
      "message": {
        "text": "This path depends on a user-provided value."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "lib/ab12-gen.js",
        "start_line": 917,
        "end_line": 917,
        "start_column": 7,
        "end_column": 18
      },
      "classifications": []
    }
  }
]

    Forbidden

    Status: 403 Forbidden

    Resource not found

    Status: 404 Not Found

    Service unavailable

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable

    Notes

    Get a code scanning alert

    Gets a single code scanning alert. You must use an access token with the security_events scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the security_events read permission to use this endpoint.

    Deprecation notice: The instances field is deprecated and will, in future, not be included in the response for this endpoint. From GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0, the same information can be retrieved via a GET request to the URL specified by instances_url, added in that release.

    get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{alert_number}

    Parameters

    Name Type In Description
    accept string header

    Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.
    owner string path
    repo string path
    alert_number integer path

    The number that identifies an alert. You can find this at the end of the URL for a code scanning alert within GitHub, and in the number field in the response from the GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts operation.

    Code samples

    Shell
    curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  http(s)://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/42
    JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)
    await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{alert_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  alert_number: 42
})

    Response

    Status: 200 OK
    {
  "number": 42,
  "created_at": "2020-06-19T11:21:34Z",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/42",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/42",
  "state": "dismissed",
  "dismissed_by": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 54933897,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  "dismissed_at": "2020-02-14T12:29:18Z",
  "dismissed_reason": "false positive",
  "rule": {
    "id": "js/zipslip",
    "severity": "error",
    "security_severity_level": "high",
    "description": "Arbitrary file write during zip extraction (\"Zip Slip\")",
    "name": "js/zipslip",
    "full_description": "Extracting files from a malicious zip archive without validating that the destination file path is within the destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten.",
    "tags": [
      "security",
      "external/cwe/cwe-022"
    ],
    "help": "# Arbitrary file write during zip extraction (\"Zip Slip\")\\nExtracting files from a malicious zip archive without validating that the destination file path is within the destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten ..."
  },
  "tool": {
    "name": "CodeQL",
    "guid": null,
    "version": "2.4.0"
  },
  "instances": [
    {
      "ref": "refs/heads/main",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze",
      "environment": "{\"language\":\"javascript\"}",
      "state": "dismissed",
      "commit_sha": "39406e42cb832f683daa691dd652a8dc36ee8930",
      "message": {
        "text": "Unsanitized zip archive item path, which may contain '..', is used in a file system operation."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "src/badcode.js",
        "start_line": 917,
        "end_line": 917,
        "start_column": 7,
        "end_column": 18
      },
      "classifications": [
        "test"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ref": "refs/pull/3740/head",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze",
      "environment": "{\"language\":\"javascript\"}",
      "state": "dismissed",
      "commit_sha": "42cb832f6839406e3daa691dd652a8dc36ee8930",
      "message": {
        "text": "Unsanitized zip archive item path, which may contain '..', is used in a file system operation."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "src/badcode.js",
        "start_line": 917,
        "end_line": 917,
        "start_column": 7,
        "end_column": 18
      },
      "classifications": [
        "test"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

    Forbidden

    Status: 403 Forbidden

    Resource not found

    Status: 404 Not Found

    Service unavailable

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable

    Notes

    Update a code scanning alert

    Updates the status of a single code scanning alert. You must use an access token with the security_events scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the security_events write permission to use this endpoint.

    patch /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{alert_number}

    Parameters

    Name Type In Description
    accept string header

    Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.
    owner string path
    repo string path
    alert_number integer path

    The number that identifies an alert. You can find this at the end of the URL for a code scanning alert within GitHub, and in the number field in the response from the GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts operation.
    state string body

    Required. Sets the state of the code scanning alert. Can be one of open or dismissed. You must provide dismissed_reason when you set the state to dismissed.
    dismissed_reason string or nullable body

    Required when the state is dismissed. The reason for dismissing or closing the alert. Can be one of: false positive, won't fix, and used in tests.

    Code samples

    Shell
    curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  http(s)://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/42 \
  -d '{"state":"state"}'
    JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)
    await octokit.request('PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{alert_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  alert_number: 42,
  state: 'state'
})

    Response

    Status: 200 OK
    {
  "number": 42,
  "created_at": "2020-08-25T21:28:36Z",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/alerts/42",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/42",
  "state": "dismissed",
  "dismissed_by": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  "dismissed_at": "2020-09-02T22:34:56Z",
  "dismissed_reason": "false positive",
  "rule": {
    "id": "js/zipslip",
    "severity": "error",
    "security_severity_level": "high",
    "description": "Arbitrary file write during zip extraction (\"Zip Slip\")",
    "name": "js/zipslip",
    "full_description": "Extracting files from a malicious zip archive without validating that the destination file path is within the destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten.",
    "tags": [
      "security",
      "external/cwe/cwe-022"
    ],
    "help": "# Arbitrary file write during zip extraction (\"Zip Slip\")\\nExtracting files from a malicious zip archive without validating that the destination file path is within the destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten ..."
  },
  "tool": {
    "name": "CodeQL",
    "guid": null,
    "version": "2.4.0"
  },
  "instances": [
    {
      "ref": "refs/heads/main",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze",
      "environment": "{\"language\":\"javascript\"}",
      "state": "dismissed",
      "commit_sha": "4ed4204b0e16480197a64500c4b5848ddfda9561",
      "message": {
        "text": "Unsanitized zip archive item path, which may contain '..', is used in a file system operation."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "src/zipslip.js",
        "start_line": 20,
        "end_line": 20,
        "start_column": 37,
        "end_column": 45
      },
      "classifications": [
        "test"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ref": "refs/pull/3740/head",
      "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze",
      "environment": "{\"language\":\"javascript\"}",
      "state": "dismissed",
      "commit_sha": "fdc19ddaf04649b910b7267b82c0997a4bbe165e",
      "message": {
        "text": "Unsanitized zip archive item path, which may contain '..', is used in a file system operation."
      },
      "location": {
        "path": "src/zipslip.js",
        "start_line": 20,
        "end_line": 20,
        "start_column": 37,
        "end_column": 45
      },
      "classifications": [
        "test"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

    Forbidden

    Status: 403 Forbidden

    Resource not found

    Status: 404 Not Found

    Service unavailable

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable

    Notes

    List code scanning analyses for a repository

    Lists the details of all code scanning analyses for a repository, starting with the most recent. The response is paginated and you can use the page and per_page parameters to list the analyses you're interested in. By default 30 analyses are listed per page.

    The rules_count field in the response give the number of rules that were run in the analysis. For very old analyses this data is not available, and 0 is returned in this field.

    You must use an access token with the security_events scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the security_events read permission to use this endpoint.

    Deprecation notice: The tool_name field is deprecated and will, in future, not be included in the response for this endpoint. The example response reflects this change. The tool name can now be found inside the tool field.

    get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/analyses

    Parameters

    Name Type In Description
    accept string header

    Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.
    owner string path
    repo string path
    tool_name string query

    The name of a code scanning tool. Only results by this tool will be listed. You can specify the tool by using either tool_name or tool_guid, but not both.
    tool_guid string query

    The GUID of a code scanning tool. Only results by this tool will be listed. Note that some code scanning tools may not include a GUID in their analysis data. You can specify the tool by using either tool_guid or tool_name, but not both.
    page integer query

    Page number of the results to fetch.

    Default: 1
    per_page integer query

    Results per page (max 100)

    Default: 30
    ref string query

    The Git reference for the analyses you want to list. The ref for a branch can be formatted either as refs/heads/<branch name> or simply <branch name>. To reference a pull request use refs/pull/<number>/merge.
    sarif_id string query

    Filter analyses belonging to the same SARIF upload.

    Code samples

    Shell
    curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  http(s)://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/analyses
    JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)
    await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/analyses', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

    Response

    Status: 200 OK
    [
  {
    "ref": "refs/heads/main",
    "commit_sha": "d99612c3e1f2970085cfbaeadf8f010ef69bad83",
    "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze",
    "environment": "{\"language\":\"python\"}",
    "error": "",
    "category": ".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml:analyze/language:python",
    "created_at": "2020-08-27T15:05:21Z",
    "results_count": 17,
    "rules_count": 49,
    "id": 201,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/analyses/201",
    "sarif_id": "6c81cd8e-b078-4ac3-a3be-1dad7dbd0b53",
    "tool": {
      "name": "CodeQL",
      "guid": null,
      "version": "2.4.0"
    },
    "deletable": true,
    "warning": ""
  },
  {
    "ref": "refs/heads/my-branch",
    "commit_sha": "c8cff6510d4d084fb1b4aa13b64b97ca12b07321",
    "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/shiftleft.yml:build",
    "environment": "{}",
    "error": "",
    "category": ".github/workflows/shiftleft.yml:build/",
    "created_at": "2020-08-31T22:46:44Z",
    "results_count": 17,
    "rules_count": 32,
    "id": 200,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/analyses/200",
    "sarif_id": "8981cd8e-b078-4ac3-a3be-1dad7dbd0b582",
    "tool": {
      "name": "Python Security Analysis",
      "guid": null,
      "version": "1.2.0"
    },
    "deletable": true,
    "warning": ""
  }
]

    Forbidden

    Status: 403 Forbidden

    Resource not found

    Status: 404 Not Found

    Service unavailable

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable

    Notes

    Upload an analysis as SARIF data

    Uploads SARIF data containing the results of a code scanning analysis to make the results available in a repository. You must use an access token with the security_events scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the security_events write permission to use this endpoint.

    There are two places where you can upload code scanning results.

    You must compress the SARIF-formatted analysis data that you want to upload, using gzip, and then encode it as a Base64 format string. For example:

    gzip -c analysis-data.sarif | base64 -w0

    SARIF upload supports a maximum of 1000 results per analysis run. Any results over this limit are ignored. Typically, but not necessarily, a SARIF file contains a single run of a single tool. If a code scanning tool generates too many results, you should update the analysis configuration to run only the most important rules or queries.

    The 202 Accepted, response includes an id value. You can use this ID to check the status of the upload by using this for the /sarifs/{sarif_id} endpoint. For more information, see "Get information about a SARIF upload."

    post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/sarifs

    Parameters

    Name Type In Description
    accept string header

    Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.
    owner string path
    repo string path
    commit_sha string body

    Required. The SHA of the commit to which the analysis you are uploading relates.
    ref string body

    Required. The full Git reference, formatted as refs/heads/<branch name>,refs/pull/<number>/merge, or refs/pull/<number>/head.
    sarif string body

    Required. A Base64 string representing the SARIF file to upload. You must first compress your SARIF file using gzip and then translate the contents of the file into a Base64 encoding string. For more information, see "SARIF support for code scanning."
    checkout_uri string body

    The base directory used in the analysis, as it appears in the SARIF file. This property is used to convert file paths from absolute to relative, so that alerts can be mapped to their correct location in the repository.
    started_at string body

    The time that the analysis run began. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
    tool_name string body

    The name of the tool used to generate the code scanning analysis. If this parameter is not used, the tool name defaults to "API". If the uploaded SARIF contains a tool GUID, this will be available for filtering using the tool_guid parameter of operations such as GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts.

    Code samples

    Shell
    curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  http(s)://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/sarifs \
  -d '{"commit_sha":"commit_sha","ref":"ref","sarif":"sarif"}'
    JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)
    await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/sarifs', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  commit_sha: 'commit_sha',
  ref: 'ref',
  sarif: 'sarif'
})

    Default response

    Status: 202 Accepted
    {
  "id": "47177e22-5596-11eb-80a1-c1e54ef945c6",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/code-scanning/sarifs/47177e22-5596-11eb-80a1-c1e54ef945c6"
}

    Bad Request if the sarif field is invalid

    Status: 400 Bad Request

    Forbidden

    Status: 403 Forbidden

    Resource not found

    Status: 404 Not Found

    Payload Too Large if the sarif field is too large

    Status: 413 Payload Too Large

    Service unavailable

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable

    Notes