@aikidosec/runtime

Aikido Runtime for Node.js

Features

Protects your application against

• 🛡️ NoSQL injection attacks
• 🛡️ SQL injection attacks
• 🛡️ Command injection attacks
• 🛡️ Prototype pollution
• 🔥 More to come (See roadmap below)

Roadmap

• Monitor outbound requests
• Protect against path traversal attacks
• Protect against SSRF attacks

Supported libraries and frameworks

Aikido runtime for Node.js is compatible with

• ✅ express 4.x
• ✅ mongodb 4.x, 5.x and 6.x (npm package versions, not MongoDB server versions)
• ✅ mongoose 8.x, 7.x and 6.x
• ✅ pg 8.x and 7.x
• ✅ mysql 2.x
• ✅ mysql2 3.x
• ✅ @google-cloud/pubsub 4.x
• ✅ @google-cloud/functions-framework 3.x
• ✅ AWS Lambda

Installation

# The --save-exact makes sure that you don't automatically install a newer version
$ npm install --save-exact @aikidosec/runtime

# The --exact makes sure that you don't automatically install a newer version
$ yarn add --exact @aikidosec/runtime

• For express based apps, follow the Express instructions
• For AWS Lambda, follow the AWS Lambda instructions
• For Google Cloud Functions, follow the Google Cloud Functions instructions
• For @google-cloud/pubsub, follow the Google Cloud Pub/Sub instructions

Reporting to Aikido

Aikido Security is a developer-first software security platform. We scan your source code & cloud to show you which vulnerabilities are actually important.

You can use some of this library's features without Aikido, but you will get the most value when using it with Aikido.

You will need an Aikido account and a token to report events to Aikido. If you don't have an account, you can sign up for free.

Here's how:

• Login to your Aikido account
• Go to Runtime protection
• Go to services
• Click on "Add service"
• Choose a name for your service
• Click on "Generate token"
• Copy the token
• Set the token as an environment variable: AIKIDO_TOKEN

(You can use dotenv to load the token from an .env file)

Running in production mode (blocking)

By default, the runtime will only detect and report attacks to Aikido.

If you want to start blocking requests, you can set the AIKIDO_BLOCKING environment variable to true.

See Reporting to Aikido to learn how to send events to Aikido.

Performance

We run a benchmark on every commit to make sure that the runtime has a minimal impact on your application's performance.

The bench runs a simple MongoDB query to measure the difference between two runs with and without the runtime:

Without runtime	With runtime	Difference in ms
0.214ms	0.222ms	+0.008ms

(Using Node.js 18.x and MongoDB 6.3.x, results will vary depending on your hardware)

See benchmarks for more information.

Development

• $ make install to install dependencies
• $ make build to build the library
• $ make watch to watch for changes and rebuild the library
• $ make test to run tests using tap
• $ make end2end to run end-to-end tests using tap
• $ make lint to run ESLint