Rapid7 InsightAppSec Extension

The Rapid7 InsightAppSec Extension for Azure DevOps is a TypeScript-based project that leverages the Rapid7 InsightAppSec RESTful API to automate the scanning and gating of Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) as part of an Azure DevOps build or release pipeline. The project utilizes the tfx-cli node-based utility for interacting with Azure DevOps and follows the standard development framework as documented.

More information about InsightAppSec can be found here: https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightappsec/

If you would like to start using the InsigtAppSec Extension for Azure DevOps today, it can be found on the Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rapid7.rapid7-insightappsec-extension

GETTING STARTED

The details provided in this README are for those maintaining the extension. For details on Getting Started using the published extension, either reference the extension listing on Visual Studio Marketplace or the included Overview. To get started developing the Rapid7 InsightAppSec Extension for Azure DevOps, an Azure DevOps organization is required.

Prerequisites

The below prerequisites must first be installed on the development environment in order to get started with local development and testing:

• Visual Studio Code was used in the course of its development and is recommended as an IDE
• Azure DevOps organization with permissions to install extensions
• Visual Studio Marketplace publisher account
• Installation of Node.js
• Installation of node development dependencies

Initializing Project

Ensure the necessary node development dependencies are installed prior to making modifications or packaging the extension. From within the project, run:

> npm install -g tfx-cli@0.9.3
> npm install -g typescript@5.3.3
> cd tasks/InsightAppSec
> npm install

Local Testing

Prior to publishing the extension to Visual Studio for testing within Azure DevOps, ensure it has been tested locally. There are several parameters that must be supplied to correctly execute the logic contained within. This is because parameters are traditionally pulled by the extension from the user-entered values in the Azure DevOps UI, and those will not exist in local testing.

The following block of code contains the required parameters that must be set:

// Vars for testing locally
var appInput = "Application Name/ID";
var scanConfigInput = "Scan Configuration Name/ID";

var endpoint = "https://us.api.insight.rapid7.com/ias/v1";
var apiKey = "your-api-key";

var waitForCompletion = true;
var scanCheckInterval = 5;
var hasTimeout = true;
var scanTimeout = 60;

var hasScanGating = false;
var generateFindingsReport = true;
var debugMode = true;
var publishPipelineArtifactsBool = false;
var artifactPerReport = false;

With all prerequisites and configurations in place, you can now compile the project and then test. Ensure that the terminal you are running the following JS file in has the same node version as the one specified in this project, otherwise you can miss errors. The node version this project runs on is specified in the file tasks/InsightAppSec/task.json under execution. It is recommended to use NVM to easily swap between installed node versions. Once this is done, you can proceed to execute the following :

> cd tasks/InsightAppSec
> tsc task.ts --lib ES2017
> node task.js

It is also highly recommended to not only test locally but to also test the extension integrated into an Azure Devops pipeline before making the release public on the marketplace. The following section describes this Testing privately on the marketplace.

Testing privately on marketplace

Create a publisher account for your own personal user that you have an Azure devops organization linked to (either member or owner). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/publish/overview?view=azure-devops#create-a-publisher This should be an account separate to the Rapid7 publisher account.

Change the vss-extension.json file for the following fields:

1. "public": true should be changed to "public": false
2. "publisher": "rapid7" should be changed to "publisher": "<your-newly-created-publisher-id>"
3. "id": "rapid7-insightappsec-extension" should be changed to "id": "rapid7-insightappsec-extension-test"

DO NOT MERGE OR COMMIT THESE CHANGES. These should be made locally only, and should be reverted to their original values prior to merging your PR. After performing an npm install as highlighted above in Initializing project, cd to the project root directory and run the command:

tfx extension create --manifest-globs vss-extension.json

Navigate to the Extensions Marketplace logged in as your user that you created a publisher account for. Under Manage Publishers & Extensions, make sure your private user publisher is selected. Follow the instructions in Publishing Via Browser to upload the private version of your extension to test, ensuring to share it with your test Azure DevOps organization only.

Navigate back to https://dev.azure.com//. Under Organization Settings -> General -> Extensions -> Shared. You should see your test version of the extension ready to install. Once you have installed, you can select it to run as a task in a pipeline as a final test before releasing as Rapid7.

PACKAGING

After completing a checkout of the project from GitHub, open and build it in your IDE.

After performing an npm install as highlighted above in Initializing project

VS Code was originally used in the development of this project. The following steps can be used in VS Code to build it:

1. Select View, then Command Palette
2. Select Tasks: Run Build Task
3. Choose the single tsconfig.json file

In a command prompt, cd to the project root directory and run the command:

tfx extension create --manifest-globs vss-extension.json

This should create a .vsix file, which is a Visual Studio Extension file that will be uploaded to the Marketplace to share the extension. If this fails, there should be output in the CLI listing the errors.

UPLOADING & SHARING

The following steps can be used in uploading the extension to the Marketplace, and then sharing it with a specific organization. There are two options - uploading it manually via the website, or doing it via CLI.

Publishing Via Browser

1. Navigate to the VS Marketplace at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage/publishers

2. Login with a publisher account

3. Click the + New Extension button and select Azure DevOps

4. Navigate locally to select the .vsix file that was previously created

5. Click Upload

6. Right click the extension once it appears in the UI and select Share/Unshare

7. Click + Organization and enter the organization name

8. Close the window and ensure the Share has saved

Publishing Via CLI

1. Go to Security under your profile in your Azure DevOps organization

2. Generate a new personal access token with the All accessible organizations option selected under the Organization field

3. Save this token

4. In the CLI, cd to the root project directory

5. Use the command tfx extension publish --token [token] to package and publish the extension, replacing [token] with the personal access token that was previously generated

Publishing as rapid7

Any new commits merged to master will result in a build of the extension and the attempt to publish it to the extension library. It is important to ensure that a new version is defined appropriate for the changes and that the version does not collide with a previous release version. Once merged, the following actions will be automatically performed by the GitHub Actions publish action:

1. A tag is created

2. A release is created

3. Extension is compiled

4. Extension is published to the rapid7 publisher account (public immediately)

After publishing it's good practice to install the latest version of the plugin and validate functionality by running a job.

Installation

The following steps can be used in installing the shared extension within an organization.

1. Navigate to your organization (eg., dev.azure.com/orgName)

2. Select Organization Settings

3. Navigate to the Extensions section there

4. Select the Rapid7 InsightAppSec extension

5. When redirected to the extension's page in the Marketplace, select Get it free and follow the directions to complete the installation process

Configuration

The following steps can be used in configuring the extension within a project's build or release pipeline. This is invaluable for doing any troubleshooting or testing within the actual product.

Service Connection

Before configuring the build or release pipeline, we need to setup a custom service connection to allow for connection to the InsightAppSec API.

1. Navigate to the desired project in Azure DevOps

2. Select Project Settings > Service Connections

3. Select + New service connection

4. Select Rapid7 InsightAppSec as the type

5. Enter the connection name, InsightAppSec region, and API key accordingly

6. Save the connection and ensure it appears in the list of service connections for that project

Pipeline Configuration

The following steps detail configuration within a build pipeline, though the same can be done for releases as well.

1. Click the icon at the top right of the page that contains account settings

2. Select Preview Features

3. Scroll down to the New YAML pipeline creation experience option and turn it off

4. Return to the main menu bar on the left and select Builds under the Pipelines section

5. Select + New and choose the New Pipeline Build option

6. Select your repository and click Continue

7. Click the Empty job option at the top of the page to start a new build pipeline from scratch

8. Click the + on Agent job 1 to add a new task

9. Search for InsightAppSec in the task window

10. Select it and click Add

11. Click on the task that's been added under the Agent job

12. Enter required parameters as desired (see below for details on parameters)

13. Select the Save option to save the build (Save & queue to immediately run it for your project)

Once the build completes, you're able to see whether the build succeeded or failed, as well as return to the build pipeline and edit your task as desired.