zapcli 0.10.0

A ZAP CLI tool for targeted tests from the command line.

ZAP CLI

A commandline tool that wraps the OWASP ZAP API for controlling ZAP and executing quick, targeted attacks.

Installation

To install the latest release from PyPI, you can run the following command:

pip install --upgrade zapcli

To install the latest development version of ZAP CLI, you can run the following:

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/Grunny/zap-cli.git

To install ZAP CLI for development, including the dependencies needed in order to run unit tests, clone this repository and use pip install -e .[dev].

Usage

To use ZAP CLI, you need to set the port ZAP runs on (defaults to 8090) and the path to the folder in which ZAP is installed. These can be set either as commandline parameters or with the environment variables ZAP_PORT and ZAP_PATH. If you have an API key set for ZAP, this can likewise be set either as a commandline parameter or with the ZAP_API_KEY environment variable.

ZAP CLI can then be used with the following commands:

Usage: zap-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  ZAP CLI - A simple commandline tool for OWASP ZAP.

Options:
  --boring            Remove color from console output.
  -v, --verbose       Add more verbose debugging output.
  --zap-path TEXT     Path to the ZAP daemon. Defaults to /zap or the value of
                      the environment variable ZAP_PATH.
  -p, --port INTEGER  Port of the ZAP proxy. Defaults to 8090 or the value of
                      the environment variable ZAP_PORT.
  --zap-url TEXT      The URL of the ZAP proxy. Defaults to http://127.0.0.1
                      or the value of the environment variable ZAP_URL.
  --api-key TEXT      The API key for using the ZAP API if required. Defaults
                      to the value of the environment variable ZAP_API_KEY.
  --log-path TEXT     Path to the directory in which to save the ZAP output
                      log file. Defaults to the value of the environment
                      variable ZAP_LOG_PATH and uses the value of --zap-path
                      if it is not set.
  --help              Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  active-scan  Run an Active Scan.
  ajax-spider  Run the AJAX Spider against a URL.
  alerts       Show alerts at the given alert level.
  context      Manage contexts for the current session.
  exclude      Exclude a pattern from all scanners.
  open-url     Open a URL using the ZAP proxy.
  policies     Enable or list a set of policies.
  quick-scan   Run a quick scan.
  report       Generate XML, MD or HTML report.
  scanners     Enable, disable, or list a set of scanners.
  scripts      Manage scripts.
  session      Manage sessions.
  shutdown     Shutdown the ZAP daemon.
  spider       Run the spider against a URL.
  start        Start the ZAP daemon.
  status       Check if ZAP is running.

You can use --help with any of the subcommands to get information on how to use them.

Getting started running a scan

In order to run a scan, you can use either the active-scan or the quick-scan command. The active-scan only runs an active scan against a URL that is already in ZAP’s site tree (i.e. has already been opened using the open-url command or found by running the spider). The quick-scan command is intended to be a way to run quick scans of a site with most options contained within a single command (including being able to start and shutdown ZAP before and after), so you can do everything in one go. Without any other options passed to the command, quick-scan will open the URL to make sure it’s in the site tree, run an active scan, and will output any found alerts.

As an example, to run a quick scan of a URL that will open and spider the URL, scan recursively, exclude URLs matching a given regex, and only use XSS and SQLi scanners, you could run:

$ zap-cli quick-scan -s xss,sqli --spider -r -e "some_regex_pattern" http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Running a quick scan for http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Issues found: 1
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Alert                            | Risk   |   CWE ID | URL                                                                             |
+==================================+========+==========+=================================================================================+
| Cross Site Scripting (Reflected) | High   |       79 | http://127.0.0.1/index.php?foo=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E |
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The above example is equivalent to running the following commands in order:

$ zap-cli open-url http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Accessing URL http://127.0.0.1/
$ zap-cli exclude "some_regex_pattern"
$ zap-cli spider http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Running spider...
$ zap-cli active-scan --scanners xss,sqli --recursive http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Running an active scan...
$ zap-cli alerts
[INFO]            Issues found: 1
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Alert                            | Risk   |   CWE ID | URL                                                                             |
+==================================+========+==========+=================================================================================+
| Cross Site Scripting (Reflected) | High   |       79 | http://127.0.0.1/index.php?foo=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E |
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The quick-scan command also has a --self-contained option (or -sc for short) which will first try to start ZAP if it isn’t running already and shutdown ZAP once the scan is finished. For example:

$ zap-cli quick-scan --self-contained --spider -r -s xss http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Starting ZAP daemon
[INFO]            Running a quick scan for http://127.0.0.1/
[INFO]            Issues found: 1
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Alert                            | Risk   |   CWE ID | URL                                                                             |
+==================================+========+==========+=================================================================================+
| Cross Site Scripting (Reflected) | High   |       79 | http://127.0.0.1/index.php?foo=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E |
+----------------------------------+--------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[INFO]            Shutting down ZAP daemon

Extra start options

You can also pass extra options to the start command of ZAP using --start-options or -o with commands that allow it. For example, to start ZAP with a custom API key you could use:

$ zap-cli start --start-options '-config api.key=12345'

Or to run a self-contained quick scan (that will start ZAP and shut it down after the scan is complete) with a custom API key, you could use:

$ zap-cli --api-key 12345 quick-scan --self-contained -o '-config api.key=12345' -s xss http://127.0.0.1/

Or to run the same scan with the API key disabled:

$ zap-cli quick-scan -sc -o '-config api.disablekey=true' -s xss http://127.0.0.1/

Running scans as authenticated users

In order to run a scan as an authenticated user, first configure the authentication method and users for a context using the ZAP UI (see the ZAP help page for more information). Once the authentication method and users are prepared, you can then export the context with the configured authentication method so it can be imported and used to run authenticated scans with ZAP CLI.

You can export a context with the authentication method and users configured either through the ZAP UI or using the context export ZAP CLI command. For example, to export a context with the name DevTest to a file, you could run:

$ zap-cli context export --name DevTest --file-path /home/user/DevTest.context

To import the saved context for use with ZAP CLI later, you could run:

$ zap-cli context import /home/user/DevTest.context

After importing the context with the configured authentication method and users, you can then provide the context name and user name to the spider, active-scan, and quick-scan commands to run the scans while authenticated as the given user. For example:

$ zap-cli context import /home/user/DevTest.context
$ zap-cli open-url "http://localhost/"
$ zap-cli spider --context-name DevTest --user-name SomeUser "http://localhost"
$ zap-cli active-scan --recursive -c DevTest -u SomeUser "http://localhost"
$ zap-cli quick-scan --recursive --spider -c DevTest -u SomeUser "http://localhost"