GoGuard - Protect Go repos from CVE threats

GoGuard is a tool that helps you protect your Go projects from known CVE threats. It allows you to check if a given GitHub repository is vulnerable against a specific CVE.

How it works

You provide GoGuard with a valid CVE (e.g. CVE-2021-4238) and a GitHub repository of a Go project (e.g. <https://github.com/user/repo>).
GoGuard checks NVD (National Vulnerability Database) to see if the provided CVE exists.
If the CVE exists, GoGuard visits the OSVDB (Open Source Vulnerability Database) to find a mapping between the provided CVE and a Go vulnerability.
Using the information from the OSVDB, GoGuard fetches the package name and the fixed version related to the Go vulnerability via the Go Vulnerability Database.
Finally, GoGuard visits the GitHub repository and looks at the go.mod file. It searches for the package related to the Go vulnerability and compares the version found in the go.mod file with the fixed version reported by the OSVDB.
This is considered a direct vulnerability check.
GoGuard goes one step further and checks for indirect vulnerabilities in the go.sum file as well. If there are any vulnerable versions coming from other packages, then GoGuard will inform the user about these as well.
To do that, it spins up an ephemeral Docker container and runs go mod graph to get the dependency graph of the project, against the vulnerable versions found in the go sum file.

How to fix a vulnerability

To fix a directly vulnerability, bump your go.mod file to the fixed version and run go mod tidy.
To fix all indirect vulnerabilities, (e.g. if the vulnerable pkg is gopkg.in/yaml.v2 and the patched version v2.4.0 then do:

go mod edit -replace gopkg.in/yaml.v2=gopkg.in/yaml.v2@v2.4.0
go mod tidy

Installation

To install GoGuard, you need to have Go installed on your machine. Once you have Go, you can install GoGuard by running the following command:

go install github.com/drpaneas/GoGuard

You also need docker installed, up and running.

Usage

To use GoGuard, supports 3 scan modes

Scan using CVE ID
Scan using GO Vulnerability ID
Scan using a specific Go package and its version

you can run the following command:

Usage: ./goguard <mode> <GitHub-Repo-URL> <CVE ID>
 -- Modes: cve, go, pkg --
  Example: goguard cve <GitHub-Repo-URL> <CVE ID>)
  Example: goguard go <GitHub-Repo-URL> <GOVULN ID>)
  Example: goguard pkg <GitHub-Repo-URL> <VULNPKG> <VULNVER>)

For example:

goguard cve https://github.com/user/repo CVE-2021-4238
goguard go https://github.com/user/repo GO-2022-0411
goguard pkg https://github.com/user/repo 'goutils' '1.0'

This command will check if the GitHub repository https://github.com/user/repo is vulnerable against the CVE CVE-2021-4238.

You can also use the --debug parameter to see more detailed information about the vulnerability check process.

Note

GoGuard is currently in beta version!
The pkg mode was added so you can check of embargoed CVEs (private) that are not yet publicly exposed.

Disclaimer

GoGuard is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk and always verify the information provided with the original sources.