owasp-assessment

name

owasp-assessment

description

Run an OWASP Top 10 (2025) security assessment of whatever codebase is at hand — any language, any stack — and produce a dated, versioned English report. Use when the user asks for a security assessment, OWASP review, vulnerability audit, codebase security analysis, security posture check, wants to refresh or update an OWASP report, or says things like "analyze security", "security findings", "run the owasp scan", or "check vulnerabilities".

OWASP Assessment

Codex adapter for the OWASP assessment workflow. Authoritative standard: OWASP Top 10 (2025).

Runtime notes

• Keep the common workflow in references/; this file should stay thin.
• Make reasonable assumptions by default. Ask the user directly only when ambiguity materially changes scope, report destination, or overwrite behavior.
• If Codex subagents are available in the current surface, use them to parallelize the three analysis passes. If not, perform the same passes locally and preserve the same report structure.
• Prefer local inspection with rg, git, and direct file reads. External research remains restricted to public identifiers only.

Safety floor

references/rules.md is mandatory. Load it at Step 0 and apply every rule to every subsequent step. If that file cannot be loaded (missing, truncated, unreadable), refuse to run and tell the user — do not proceed with a partial rule set.

The following prohibitions are ALWAYS in effect, even before rules.md is loaded. They govern everything the skill does:

• No repository content of any kind leaves this environment. That includes source code, file paths, file or directory names, directory structure / file tree / repository layout, schemas, table or column names, configuration values, environment variables, stack traces, log lines, commit messages, internal service/domain names, business logic, customer/tenant/user names, and secrets in any form (full or partial).
• External tools are used only for identifier-based lookups. Valid inputs to WebFetch, WebSearch, Context7, Perplexity, or any MCP are limited to: public package names and versions, CVE IDs, CWE IDs, OWASP category names/slugs, public vendor names, and public reference URLs. Nothing else may appear in an external query.
• Every external call is gated by the Query hygiene checklist in rules.md. If a query cannot be phrased using the positive allowlist only, do not send it — do the analysis locally and record the gap in the report.
• Default-deny for any tool not explicitly allowlisted in rules.md. New MCPs or connectors that appear in the environment later do not automatically become eligible for external research.
• Secrets are redacted in any output (file:line plus at most a short non-functional prefix such as AKIA...).
• Reports are written in the language the user chose at Step 0 (default: English; alternatives offered: Portuguese-BR, Spanish, French, or other on request). Universal identifiers (CWE/CVE/OWASP IDs, severity emoji, finding IDs, URLs) stay canonical regardless of language.
• No application code is modified.

If you are about to emit an external query and notice it contains a file path, a code fragment, a structural description of the repo, a schema name, or anything else from the prohibition list, abort the call, revise to identifier-only, and re-check. If you cannot, fall back to local analysis.

Workflow

0. Load references/rules.md and apply every rule to all subsequent steps. Then load references/scope_defaults.md to establish what's in scope and which dev-only paths are skipped. Skipping these loads is not allowed.
1. Initialize the run and establish:
   • output directory (<output_dir>)
   • stack hint if needed (auto-detect manifests; ask only when ambiguous)
   • scope boundaries (defaults from scope_defaults.md plus user overrides)
   • report language (default English; offer Portuguese-BR, Spanish, French, plus an other free-text option — record in the metadata table's Language row)
2. Discover the most recent prior assessment in <output_dir>. Today's filename is OWASP_ASSESSMENT_<YYYY-MM-DD>.md; if that file already exists, ask the user whether to overwrite or bump a revision suffix (e.g., _r2).
3. Run three focused analysis passes using references/explore_prompts.md. Inject the effective exclusion list from Step 0 into each pass.
   • Access control and authentication
   • Supply chain, crypto, injection, and SSRF
   • Configuration, design, integrity, and logging
4. Validate dependency CVEs using references/cve_validation.md. External queries are identifier-only, governed by rules.md.
5. Consolidate findings using references/consolidation.md — assign run-unique IDs, label confidence, handle dev-leak suspects, and apply the ⚠️ Active exploit risk tag where all three criteria from rules.md hold.
6. Diff current findings against the previous assessment using references/diff_heuristics.md.
7. Write the new report using references/document_template.md, including the Data handling compliance attestation in §3.
8. Update only the immediately previous report's Superseded by link (per the immutability rule in rules.md).
9. Return a short summary to the user with the report path and delta counts. If any finding carries ⚠️ Active exploit risk, advise coordinating with security on-call before sharing the report.

Codex-specific expectations

• Use parallel agent work only when the current Codex environment supports it and it materially speeds up the workflow.
• If a pass returns vague prose, tighten the instruction and rerun that pass before consolidating.
• Do not paste the report body into chat; the file is the artifact.

Load order

• references/rules.md — before initialization (Step 0). Mandatory.
• references/scope_defaults.md — at initialization (Step 0) for scope and dev-only exclusions.
• references/explore_prompts.md — at the exploration phase (Step 3).
• references/cve_validation.md — at the dependency validation phase (Step 4).
• references/consolidation.md — at the consolidation phase (Step 5).
• references/diff_heuristics.md — at the diff phase (Step 6).
• references/document_template.md — at the writing phase (Step 7).