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Command line scanner looking for use of known vulnerable js files and node modules in web projects and/or node projects.
npm install -g retire
Usage: retire [options]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-v, --verbose Show identified files (by default only vulnerable files are shown)
-c, --nocache Don't use local cache
--jspath <path> Folder to scan for javascript files (deprecated)
--path <path> Folder to scan for javascript files
--jsrepo <path|url> Local or internal version of repo. Can be multiple comma separated. Default: 'central')
--cachedir <path> Path to use for local cache instead of /tmp/.retire-cache
--proxy <url> Proxy url (http://some.host:8080)
--outputformat <format> Valid formats: text, json, jsonsimple, depcheck (experimental), cyclonedx and cyclonedxJSON
--outputpath <path> File to which output should be written
--ignore <paths> Comma delimited list of paths to ignore
--ignorefile <path> Custom ignore file, defaults to .retireignore / .retireignore.json
--severity <level> Specify the bug severity level from which the process fails. Allowed levels none, low, medium, high, critical.
Default: none
--exitwith <code> Custom exit code (default: 13) when vulnerabilities are found
--colors Enable color output (console output only)
--insecure Enable fetching remote jsrepo/noderepo files from hosts using an insecure or self-signed SSL (TLS) certificate
--ext <extensions> Comma separated list of file extensions for JavaScript files. The default is "js"
--cacert <path> Use the specified certificate file to verify the peer used for fetching remote jsrepo/noderepo files
--includeOsv Include OSV advisories in the output
--deep Deep scan (slower and experimental)
-h, --help display help for command
The depcheck
output format mimics the output of OWASP Dependency Check, but lacks some information compared to OWASP Dependency Check, because that information is not in the repo.
The cyclonedx
output format is based on based on the https://github.com/CycloneDX spec.
@qs # ignore this module regardless of location
node_modules/connect/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/qs # ignore specific path
Due to a bug in ignore resolving, please upgrade to >= 1.1.3
[
{
"component": "jquery",
"identifiers" : { "issue": "2432"},
"justification" : "We dont call external resources with jQuery"
},
{
"component": "jquery",
"version" : "2.1.4",
"justification" : "We dont call external resources with jQuery"
},
{
"path" : "node_modules",
"justification" : "The node modules are only used for building - client side dependencies are using bower"
}
]
The source code and issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/RetireJS/retire.js
FAQs
Retire is a tool for detecting use of vulnerable libraries
The npm package retire receives a total of 70,592 weekly downloads. As such, retire popularity was classified as popular.
We found that retire demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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