Hoppr OpenSSF Scorecard Plugin

Plugin for Hoppr to populate component metadata in a CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) with data from OpenSSF Scorecard.

How to use this plugin

Get a Libraries.io API key

In order to use this plugin, an API key from Libraries.io is required.

• Log in to Libraries.io using a GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket account
• Retrieve the API key from account settings

Once you have this API key, you can provide it to the plugin in one of the following ways:

• Set the LIBRARIES_API_KEY environment variable in the shell before running Hoppr

  export LIBRARIES_API_KEY="<your key here>"
  

• Create a Hoppr credentials file with an entry for https://libraries.io/api and an environment variable of your choosing that holds the value of the API key

  ---
  schemaVersion: v1
  kind: Credentials
  
  credential_required_services:
    - url: https://libraries.io/api
      user: ""
      pass_env: API_KEY_ENV_VAR
  

Create a transfer file

A Hoppr transfer file defines the stages to be run and which plugins will be run in those stages.

Create a transfer file that defines a stage with this plugin (identified by hoppr_openssf_scorecard.plugin) specified. For example:

---
schemaVersion: v1
kind: Transfer

stages:
  ScorecardData:
    plugins:
      - name: hoppr_openssf_scorecard.plugin
  Bundle:
    plugins:
      - name: hoppr.core_plugins.bundle_tar
        config:
          tarfile_name: tarfile.tar.gz

max_processes: 10

Run Hoppr

That's everything! Run hopctl bundle as normal and the SBOM with Scorecard data will be located in the specified bundle file.

How does it work?

Get the source control repository URL

Various API endpoints are leveraged in an attempt to retrieve a component's source control repository URL in order to request a Scorecard report.

First, a REST API or well-known metadata URL for the package manager specific to the PURL type of the component is tried.

These are the defaults for RPM components if not provided.

If a source control repository isn't found this way, the next attempt is to search Libraries.io and try to narrow down and intuit the correct repo URL from the results.

Finally, as a last-ditch effort, the GitHub API is queried in a similar fashion. If no repository URL is found by this point, the component is skipped and the plugin will move on to the next one.

If a repository URL was found during any of these passes, it gets added to the SBOM compoment's externalReferences as a URL with a type of vcs.

Request the report data from Scorecard API

For components that have a vcs repository URL (whether identified as outlined in the previous section or explicitly defined in the SBOM), a request is made to the OpenSSF Scorecard API using that project URL.

The response data is then used to populate the SBOM according to the taxonomy outlined below.

SBOM property taxonomy

Properties generated by this plugin consist of a name prefixed with hoppr:scorecard and a value corresponding to the associated Scorecard field.

For descriptions of all the checks performed by Scorecard, see this table.