RubyAudit

RubyAudit checks your current version of Ruby and RubyGems against known security vulnerabilities (CVEs), alerting you if you are using an insecure version. It complements bundler-audit, providing complete coverage for your Ruby stack. If you use Bundler, you should use both RubyAudit and bundler-audit.

RubyAudit is based on and leverages bundler-audit, and would not exist without the hard work of the rubysec team, specifically bundler-audit and ruby-advisory-db.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby_audit'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ruby_audit

Because bundler-audit requires bundler, RubyAudit requires bundler as a transitive dependency. If you don't intend to run RubyAudit in the production environment, you may selectively install it in your development and test environments by using Bundler groups.

Usage

To check your current version of Ruby and RubyGems:

$ ruby-audit check

You can ignore specific advisories by specifying -i <advisory>:

$ ruby-audit check -i CVE-2015-7551

By default, RubyAudit will check for updates to the ruby-advisory-db when it runs. If you are using RubyAudit offline, you can bypass this check by specifying -n:

$ ruby-audit check -n

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You'll also want to run git submodule update --init to populate the ruby-advisory-db submodule in /vendor that is used for testing. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

The database in /vendor/ruby-advisory-db is only used as a fixture for unit tests. By default, the database used for actual vulnerability checks is stored at ~/.local/share/ruby-advisory-db.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

License

RubyAudit is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.