Contrast Maven Plugin

Version 2

This document refers to version 2.X of the Contrast Maven Plugin. Behavior has changed a bit since the latest 1.X release.

New in 2.X:

• Vulnerabilities now reconciled using an app version instead of a timestamp
• App version can be generated using $TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER or $CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM
• Source packaging changed to com.contrastsecurity.maven.plugin

An Example

We have a working example up on a Spring Boot application here: https://github.com/Contrast-Security-OSS/vulnerable-spring-boot-application

Documentation

Always refer to Contrast's Open Docs site for the most up to date documentation: https://docs.contrastsecurity.com/tools-build.html#maven

Usage

This Maven plugin can be used to allow Contrast to discover vulnerabilities in your application during your integration or verification tests.

The install goal of the plugin is used to download the agent to the /target directory.

The plugin will edit maven's argLine property to launch the JVM with the Contrast agent.

In the verify phase, the plugin will check if any new vulnerabilities were discovered during the test phases. The build will fail if any serious vulnerabilities are discovered.

Goals

• install: installs a Contrast Java agent to your local project
• verify: checks for new vulnerabilities in your web application

Configuration Options

Parameter	Required	Default	Description	Since
username	True		Contrast username
serviceKey	True		Service Key found in Organization Settings page
apiKey	True		API Key found in Organization Settings page
orgUuid	True		Organization UUID found in Organization Settings page
appName	True		Name of the application as seen in the Contrast site
standalone	False	False	Set this to true if this is a standalone app	2.2
appVersion	False	See below	The appversion to report to Contrast. See explanation below.
apiUrl	True		API URL to your Contrast instance
serverName	True		Name of the server you set with -Dcontrast.server
serverPath	False		The server context path	2.1
minSeverity	False	Medium	Minimum severity level to verify (can be Note, Low, Medium, High or Critical)
jarPath	False		Path to contrast.jar if you already have one downloaded
skipArgLine	False	False	If this is "true", the plugin will not alter the Maven argLine property in any way	2.0

Option Details

serverPath

Multi-module Maven builds can appear as different servers in the Contrast UI. If you would like to discourage this behavior and would rather see all modules appear under the same server in Contrast, then please set the serverPath property.

You are strongly encouraged to add a serverPath if this build will be run in a CI environment such as Travis CI or Circle CI. This will help with keeping your servers tidy in the Contrast UI.

appVersion

When your app's integration tests are run, the Contrast agent can add an app version to its metadata so that vulnerabilites can be compared between app versions, CI builds, etc...

We generate the app version as follows and in this order:

• If you specify an appVersion in the properties, we'll use that without modification
• If your build is running in TravisCI, we'll use appName-$TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER
• If your build is running in CircleCI, we'll use appName-$CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM
• If no appVersion is specified, we'll generate one in the following format: appName-yyyyMMddHHmmss

Example Configuration

<plugin>
     <groupId>com.contrastsecurity</groupId>
     <artifactId>contrast-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <executions>
         <execution>
             <id>install-contrast-jar</id>
             <goals>
                <goal>install</goal>
             </goals>
         </execution>
         <execution>
            <id>verify-with-contrast</id>
            <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>verify</goal>
            </goals>
         </execution>
     </executions>
     <configuration>
         <username>contrast_user</username>
         <apiKey>API_KEY_HERE</apiKey>
         <serviceKey>SERVICE_KEY_HERE</serviceKey>
         <apiUrl>https://app.contrastsecurity.com/Contrast/api</apiUrl>
         <orgUuid>ORG_UID_HERE</orgUuid>
         <appName>Test Application</appName>
         <serverName>jenkins.slave1</serverName>
         <minSeverity>High</minSeverity>
     </configuration>
</plugin>