6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Alex Goodman
1827ce2f4f
feat: catalog CPAN distributions installed by perl clients
Adds `perl` as a language and `cpan` as a package type, with two catalogers behind them.

- `perl-cpan-installed-cataloger` reads `.meta/*/install.json` (cpanm, cpm, carton) and `auto/**/.packlist` (anything installed through `ExtUtils::MakeMaker` or `Module::Build`, including CPAN.pm). Both globs are unanchored, so a local-lib or carton application tree is found the same as a system install.
- `perl-cpan-meta-cataloger` reads an unpacked release's own `META.json` or `META.yml`, gated on a sibling `MANIFEST` so source checkouts are ignored.

Packages are keyed on the **distribution**, not the module, because that is what CPAN, MetaCPAN and the advisory data all use. `LWP.pm` belongs to `libwww-perl` and reporting it as `LWP` would make every advisory for it unreachable. The distribution name comes from `install.json`'s `dist` field, and from the `auto/` path for packlists.

purls are `pkg:cpan/<distribution>@<version>`, with the PAUSE author added as an `author` qualifier when the evidence carries it. Metadata comes in two types: `cpan-distribution` for installed evidence and `cpan-unpacked-release` for a release sitting on disk. The tiers differ in more than a name, so a consumer should not have to string-match a cataloger name to tell them apart: an unpacked release has no PAUSE path and therefore no author and no file list, and "installed and loadable by the interpreter" is a materially stronger claim than "a source tree exists here".

A packlist's version comes from `perllocal.pod`. EUMM writes it and the packlist from the same variables in the same install target, so the `auto/` path segments and the perllocal `Module` name are the same key, and the recorded `VERSION` is what was evaluated at build time rather than what can be read back statically. Scraping `$VERSION` out of the main `.pm` is the fallback, since `NO_PERLLOCAL` suppresses the file and Module::Build never writes one. Three rules pick the stanza: dashed module name, longest `installed into` libdir that prefixes the packlist path, and last match wins because the file is append-only. Without the libdir rule a second perl on the image silently supplies the version.

Where scraping is the fallback, it reads more than a plain `our $VERSION = '...'`. A version declared in the package statement (`package Foo::Bar v1.0.0;`) counts, which matters because a distribution can declare it that way and carry no `$VERSION` at all: `CPAN::02Packages::Search` is one, and without this it reports no version and matches nothing. Fully qualified `$Foo::Bar::VERSION` counts too, which is what older Dist::Zilla emitted and what real `JSON::PP` 2.27300 still carries. `qv('1.2.3')` is handled. A version computed at runtime is not, and those are reported without one rather than guessed at.

Packlist entries are parsed the way `ExtUtils::Packlist` writes them: a line can carry space-separated metadata after the path (`/path/to/File.pm type=file`), which is what `installperl` produces, so the suffix is stripped rather than the line being cut at its first space.

`META.yml` is read alongside `META.json`, because about 43% of current CPAN releases ship no `META.json` and they skew old, which is where the advisories are. Where both sit in one directory the `META.json` wins. A `META.yml` a strict parser rejects skips that directory rather than failing the scan, which is routine rather than defensive for pre-spec releases.

A packlist is literally a file list, so its paths are surfaced through `pkg.FileOwner`. They are reported as recorded, unfiltered: a path the packlist claims and the filesystem lacks means the file was removed or overwritten out from under the installer, which is worth seeing rather than hiding.

Build leftovers under `~/.cpanm/work` and `~/.cpan/build` are skipped. They genuinely are unpacked release tarballs, `MANIFEST` included, so the `MANIFEST` gate admits them and a path exclusion is the only signal available. Without it every distribution on an image that did not clean up is reported twice. The cost is that a tarball deliberately kept under `~/.cpan/build` stops being reported.

Two behaviors that look wrong but are not:

- a distribution can be reported twice at different versions. `libwww-perl` 5.836 bundles `HTTP-Date`, `HTTP-Message` and `LWP-MediaTypes`, and installing it over the modern standalone releases overwrites their `.pm` files. Both versions are genuinely present, so the merge refuses to pair disagreeing versions rather than hiding one.
- a distribution with no readable version is reported without one rather than dropped, so it stays visible.

The coverage boundary is stated in full in the `package perl` doc comment. In short: modules installed from distro packages are out of scope, since packagers strip CPAN metadata with `NO_PACKLIST` and deb, rpm and apk already report them. Core and dual-life distributions bundled with the interpreter have no coverage, because nothing on disk carries their versions; the interpreter itself is reported separately. Vendored trees, `App::FatPacker` output and PAR archives are invisible, because what they carry is module identity with no offline map to a distribution. A packlist-derived name is the installer's `NAME` and may not be the distribution name, which is left to the vulnerability data to resolve.

One correction worth calling out, since it is easy to arrive at twice: a sibling `MANIFEST` is the only thing separating an unpacked release from a source checkout. An earlier version of the guard also rejected any tree containing a `dist.ini`, on the theory that it marked a Dist::Zilla source tree. dzil ships `dist.ini` *inside* the tarballs it builds and lists it in the generated `MANIFEST`, so that exclusion was silently skipping real releases, `URI` among them.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-04 11:30:30 -04:00
Dan Luhring
bbf3bb5856
fix(relationship): favor real paths over symlinks for ownership by file (#3923)
Signed-off-by: Dan Luhring <dluhring@chainguard.dev>
Signed-off-by: Keith Zantow <kzantow@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Keith Zantow <kzantow@gmail.com>
2025-05-23 14:33:19 -04:00
Alex Goodman
03fa142de9
Resolve owned file paths when searching for overlaps (#3828)
* resolve owned file paths when searching for overlaps

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* dont remove empty paths

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2025-04-24 21:59:45 +00:00
Alex Goodman
34e5ff753f
Location order on packages should consider evidence annotations when sorting (#3720)
* fix: sorting locations should consider pkg evidence

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* simplify location test options for comparison

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2025-03-11 10:34:37 -04:00
Alex Goodman
048df17e3d
Use values in relationship To/From fields (#2871)
* use pkg values in relationship fields

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* add linter rule for using values in relationships

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* use new cmptest package for comparing relationships

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* create cmptest for common cmp.Diff options in test

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* condense matches for relationship ruleguard

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* remove relationship type from rules

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* restore build tag

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* suggest using values

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* nil check pkgs

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2024-05-14 13:48:33 -04:00
Alex Goodman
b0ab75fd89
Replace core SBOM-creation API with builder pattern (#1383)
* remove existing cataloging API

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

* add file cataloging config

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* add package cataloging config

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* add configs for cross-cutting concerns

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* rename CLI option configs to not require import aliases later

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* update all nested structs for the Catalog struct

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* update Catalog cli options

- add new cataloger selection options (selection and default)
- remove the excludeBinaryOverlapByOwnership
- deprecate "catalogers" flag
- add new javascript configuration

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* migrate relationship capabilities to separate internal package

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* refactor golang cataloger to use configuration options when creating packages

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* create internal object to facilitate reading from and writing to an SBOM

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* create a command-like object (task) to facilitate partial SBOM creation

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* add cataloger selection capability

- be able to parse string expressions into a set of resolved actions against sets
- be able to use expressions to select/add/remove tasks to/from the final set of tasks to run

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* add package, file, and environment related tasks

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* update existing file catalogers to use nested UI elements

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* add CreateSBOMConfig that drives the SBOM creation process

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* capture SBOM creation info as a struct

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* add CreateSBOM() function

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* fix tests

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* update docs with SBOM selection help + breaking changes

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* fix multiple override default inputs

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* fix deprecation flag printing to stdout

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* refactor cataloger selection description to separate object

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* address review comments

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* keep expression errors and show specific suggestions only

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* address additional review feedback

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* address more review comments

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* addressed additional PR review feedback

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* fix file selection references

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* remove guess language data generation option

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* add tests for coordinatesForSelection

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* rename relationship attributes

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* add descriptions to relationships config fields

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* improve documentation around configuration options

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* add explicit errors around legacy config entries

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2024-01-12 17:39:13 -05:00