Scanning for Leaked Secrets with Kingfisher in GitHub/Gitea Actions
It's bad practice to save secrets (like API keys, passwords, etc.) hardcoded in code repositories. To help identify and mitigate this risk, the below gitea action workflow uses Kingfisher to scan for secrets.
Prerequisites: you must have the Act Runner installed and configured with Gitea.
Filename: kingfisher-secrets-scan.yaml
# Filename: .github/workflows/kingfisher-secrets-scan.yaml
# Gitea Actions workflow for ACT Runner to scan for leaked secrets using Kingfisher
name: Scan for leaked secrets using Kingfisher
on:
push:
pull_request:
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
kingfisher-secrets-scan:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout Code
uses: actions/checkout@v5
- name: Get Kingfisher version and arch
id: get_version_arch
run: |
VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/mongodb/kingfisher/releases/latest | jq -r '.tag_name')
if [ -z "$VERSION" ] || [ "$VERSION" = "null" ]; then
echo "Warning: Could not get latest Kingfisher version, falling back to v1.54.0"
VERSION="v1.54.0"
fi
echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
ARCH_RAW=$(arch)
if [ "$ARCH_RAW" = "x86_64" ]; then
ARCH="x64"
elif [ "$ARCH_RAW" = "aarch64" ]; then
ARCH="arm64"
else
echo "Unsupported architecture: $ARCH_RAW"
exit 1
fi
echo "arch=$ARCH" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
cat $GITHUB_OUTPUT
- name: Cache kingfisher binary
id: cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: /usr/local/bin
key: ${{ runner.os }}-kingfisher-${{ steps.get_version_arch.outputs.version }}-${{ steps.get_version_arch.outputs.arch }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-kingfisher-${{ steps.get_version_arch.outputs.arch }}
- name: Install kingfisher if cache missed
if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: |
URL=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/mongodb/kingfisher/releases/latest | \
jq -r --arg arch "${{ steps.get_version_arch.outputs.arch }}" '.assets[] |
select(.name | test("kingfisher-linux-" + $arch + "\\.tgz")) |
.browser_download_url')
echo "Downloading Kingfisher from $URL"
curl -sL $URL | tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin kingfisher
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kingfisher
- name: Run Kingfisher scan
continue-on-error: true
run: |
kingfisher scan -n -r ${{ github.workspace }}Depends On
- Self hosted Gitea gitea
- Self hosted ACT Runners gitea-act-runner