dependency-review-action

This action scans your pull requests for dependency changes, and will raise an error if any vulnerabilities or invalid licenses are being introduced. The action is supported by an API endpoint that diffs the dependencies between any two revisions on your default branch.

The action is available for all public repositories, as well as private repositories that have GitHub Advanced Security licensed.

You can see the results on the job logs:

or on the job summary:

Installation

Please keep in mind that you need a GitHub Advanced Security license if you're running this action on private repositories.

1. Add a new YAML workflow to your .github/workflows folder:

name: 'Dependency Review'
on: [pull_request]

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  dependency-review:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 'Checkout Repository'
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 'Dependency Review'
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@v3

GitHub Enterprise Server

This action is available in Enterprise Server starting with version 3.6. Make sure GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Connect are enabled.

You can use the same workflow as above, replacing the runs-on value with the label of any of your runners (the default label is self-hosted):

# ...

jobs:
  dependency-review:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
      - name: 'Checkout Repository'
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 'Dependency Review'
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@v3

Configuration options

Configure this action by either inlining these options in your workflow file, or by using an external configuration file. All configuration options are optional.

*not supported for use with GitHub Enterprise Server

†will be supported with GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8

Inline Configuration

You can pass options to the Dependency Review GitHub Action using your workflow file.

Example

name: 'Dependency Review'
on: [pull_request]
permissions:
  contents: read
jobs:
  dependency-review:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 'Checkout Repository'
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Dependency Review
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@v3
        with:
          fail-on-severity: moderate

          # Use comma-separated names to pass list arguments:
          deny-licenses: LGPL-2.0, BSD-2-Clause

Configuration File

You can use an external configuration file to specify the settings for this action. It can be a local file or a file in an external repository. Refer to the following options for the specification.

Example

Start by specifying that you will be using an external configuration file:

- name: Dependency Review
  uses: actions/dependency-review-action@v2
  with:
    config-file: './.github/dependency-review-config.yml'

And then create the file in the path you just specified. Please note that the option names in external files use underscores instead of dashes:

fail_on_severity: 'critical'
allow_licenses:
  - 'GPL-3.0'
  - 'BSD-3-Clause'
  - 'MIT'

For more examples of how to use this action and its configuration options, see the examples page.

Considerations

• Checking for licenses is not supported on Enterprise Server.
• The action will only accept one of the two license parameters; an error will be raised if you provide both.
• We don't have license information for all of your dependents. If we can't detect the license for a dependency we will inform you, but the action won't fail.

Blocking pull requests

The Dependency Review GitHub Action check will only block a pull request from being merged if the repository owner has required the check to pass before merging. For more information, see the documentation on protected branches.

Getting help

If you have bug reports, questions or suggestions please create a new issue.

Contributing

We are grateful for any contributions made to this project. Please read CONTRIBUTING.MD to get started.

License

This project is released under the MIT License.