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Use .gitignore as basis of default excludes #826

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ericwb opened this issue Feb 25, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #1090
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Use .gitignore as basis of default excludes #826

ericwb opened this issue Feb 25, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #1090
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ericwb commented Feb 25, 2022

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, constants.py defines some standard excludes hardcoded in a file. While this hasn't generally been an issue thus far, it does get complicated if someone wishes to override those values.

Describe the solution you'd like
Rather than hardcode in Bandit source, make use of a project's defined .gitignore file instead. It's very common to only scan the source that is part of the git repo anyway.

Describe alternatives you've considered
This solution would apply only to Git source control. So if someone uses SVN, CVS, etc, it may not be of much help.

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https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/blob/7fbf9d517b900936ac97e7debbd16dc7e532bc27/bandit/core/constants.py
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ericwb commented Jan 8, 2024 •
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Currently constants.EXCLUDE is used in https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/blob/main/bandit/cli/main.py#L339 as the default for excluded files. However, if files are given to the exclude CLI argument, then constants.EXCLUDE is overridden.

One solution might be to make use of an existing dependency, GitPython, to load a Repo object if the target given to scan is a single directory. We can then assume this directory is the root of a git-based project and attempt to load the .gitignore. Baseline (https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/blob/main/bandit/cli/baseline.py#L202) does this today. However, the only function on Repo to check if files are ignored is https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference.html#git.repo.base.Repo.ignored. As Bandit processed files, it would need to filter using this function.

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Use .gitignore as part of the excluded file list
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When using Bandit to scan projects based on Git source control,
it would be benefitual to ignore files based on the patterns
in the .gitignore file.

Today, Bandit has some default excludes that get overridden if
a user passes in other excludes. This is a bit confusing to the
end user. But it also serves a purpose similar to .gitignore in
that the paths excluded by default are typically included in a
.gitignore.

Note, it will only check for .gitignore files in top-level directories
specified on the Bandit command line as targets. It does not recursive
look for .gitignore files. This is done because recursive searching
for .gitignore files would be complex to add to Bandit existing
file discovery.

This change adds a new Apache 2 licensed dependency of ignorelib.

Fixes PyCQA#826

Signed-off-by: Eric Brown <eric_wade_brown@yahoo.com>
ericwb added a commit to ericwb/bandit that referenced this issue Jan 20, 2024
@ericwb
Use .gitignore as part of the excluded file list
442a692 
When using Bandit to scan projects based on Git source control,
it would be benefitual to ignore files based on the patterns
in the .gitignore file.

Today, Bandit has some default excludes that get overridden if
a user passes in other excludes. This is a bit confusing to the
end user. But it also serves a purpose similar to .gitignore in
that the paths excluded by default are typically included in a
.gitignore.

Note, it will only check for .gitignore files in top-level directories
specified on the Bandit command line as targets. It does not recursive
look for .gitignore files. This is done because recursive searching
for .gitignore files would be complex to add to Bandit existing
file discovery.

This change adds a new Apache 2 licensed dependency of ignorelib.

Fixes PyCQA#826

Signed-off-by: Eric Brown <eric_wade_brown@yahoo.com>
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