Permission Denied error for Kics Scan Result.Json : "Error: open /github/workspace/results.json: permission denied"

[dayor123]

Hello,

I am having issue running the Kics Scan in my enterprise repo. I keep getting this error "Error: open /github/workspace/results.json: permission denied". I think the container does not have the permissions to write to the github/workspace. After doing some research I noted that GitHub Actions must be run by the default Docker user (root). it there a way to specify this in my workflow to ensure the container runs as root.

Please any help with this will be appreciated

[davidjeddy]

I have the similar erro due to using a container manager that does not require root (podman). Here is how I got around the error:

podman run -t -v .:/path checkmarx/kics scan -p /path --verbose | tee kics.log

Instead of writing the log to the container dir /report, which is a mounted volume from the host, the command outputs the log to stdOut then pipes it to tee. In turn tee writes the log on the host.

Hope this helps.

[Rafael-Schippers]

On fedora 39 and also have this problem with podman. Has there been any update on a permanent fix for this?