| `DAST_WEBSITE` | URL | `http://www.site.com` | The URL of the website to scan. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_SCAN` | boolean | `true` | Configures DAST to use the browser-based crawler engine. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_ALLOWED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are considered in scope when crawled. By default the `DAST_WEBSITE` hostname is included in the allowed hosts list. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_EXCLUDED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are considered excluded and connections are forcibly dropped. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_IGNORED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are accessed but not reported against. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_MAX_ACTIONS` | number | `10000` | The maximum number of actions that the crawler performs. For example, clicking a link, or filling a form. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_MAX_DEPTH` | number | `10` | The maximum number of chained actions that the crawler takes. For example, `Click -> Form Fill -> Click` is a depth of three. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_NUMBER_OF_BROWSERS` | number | `3` | The maximum number of concurrent browser instances to use. For shared runners on GitLab.com we recommended a maximum of three. Private runners with more resources may benefit from a higher number, but will likely produce little benefit after five to seven instances. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_COOKIES` | dictionary | `abtesting_group:3,region:locked` | A cookie name and value to be added to every request. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_LOG` | List of strings | `brows:debug,auth:debug` | A list of modules and their intended log level. |
| `DAST_AUTH_URL` | string | `https://example.com/sign-in` | The URL of page that hosts the sign-in form. |
| `DAST_USERNAME` | string | `user123` | The username to enter into the username field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_PASSWORD` | string | `p@55w0rd` | The password to enter into the password field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD` | selector | `id:user` | A selector describing the username field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD` | selector | `css:.password-field` | A selector describing the password field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | selector | `xpath://input[@value='Login']` | A selector describing the element that when clicked submits the login form, or the password form of a multi-page login process. |
| `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | selector | `.submit` | A selector describing the element that when clicked submits the username form of a multi-page login process. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_REPORT` | boolean | `true` | Used in combination with exporting the `gl-dast-debug-auth-report.html` artifact to aid in debugging authentication issues. |
| `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL` | URL | `http://site.com/welcome` | Verifies successful authentication by checking the URL once the login form has been submitted. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_VERIFICATION_SELECTOR` | selector | `css:.user-photo` | Verifies successful authentication by checking for presence of a selector once the login form has been submitted. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM` | boolean | `true` | Verifies successful authentication by checking for the lack of a login form once the login form has been submitted. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_SCAN` | boolean | `true` | Configures DAST to use the browser-based crawler engine. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_ALLOWED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are considered in scope when crawled. By default the `DAST_WEBSITE` hostname is included in the allowed hosts list. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_EXCLUDED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are considered excluded and connections are forcibly dropped. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_IGNORED_HOSTS` | List of strings | `site.com,another.com` | Hostnames included in this variable are accessed but not reported against. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_MAX_ACTIONS` | number | `10000` | The maximum number of actions that the crawler performs. For example, clicking a link, or filling a form. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_MAX_DEPTH` | number | `10` | The maximum number of chained actions that the crawler takes. For example, `Click -> Form Fill -> Click` is a depth of three. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_NUMBER_OF_BROWSERS` | number | `3` | The maximum number of concurrent browser instances to use. For shared runners on GitLab.com we recommended a maximum of three. Private runners with more resources may benefit from a higher number, but will likely produce little benefit after five to seven instances. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_COOKIES` | dictionary | `abtesting_group:3,region:locked` | A cookie name and value to be added to every request. |
| `DAST_BROWSER_LOG` | List of strings | `brows:debug,auth:debug` | A list of modules and their intended log level. |
The [DAST variables](index.md#available-cicd-variables)`SECURE_ANALYZERS_PREFIX`, `DAST_FULL_SCAN_ENABLED`, `DAST_AUTO_UPDATE_ADDONS`, `DAST_EXCLUDE_RULES`, `DAST_REQUEST_HEADERS`, `DAST_HTML_REPORT`, `DAST_MARKDOWN_REPORT`, `DAST_XML_REPORT`,
`DAST_INCLUDE_ALPHA_VULNERABILITIES`, `DAST_PATHS_FILE`, `DAST_PATHS`, `DAST_ZAP_CLI_OPTIONS`, and `DAST_ZAP_LOG_CONFIGURATION` are also compatible with browser-based crawler scans.
#### Selectors
Selectors are used by CI/CD variables to specify the location of an element displayed on a page in a browser.
Selectors have the format `type`:`search string`. The crawler will search for the selector using the search string based on the type.
| `css` | `css:.password-field` | Searches for a HTML element having the supplied CSS selector. Selectors should be as specific as possible for performance reasons. |
| `id` | `id:element` | Searches for an HTML element with the provided element ID. |
| `name` | `name:element` | Searches for an HTML element with the provided element name. |
| `xpath` | `xpath://input[@id="my-button"]/a` | Searches for a HTML element with the provided XPath. Note that XPath searches are expected to be less performant than other searches. |
| None provided | `a.click-me` | Defaults to searching using a CSS selector. |
##### Find selectors with Google Chrome
Chrome DevTools element selector tool is an effective way to find a selector.
1. Open Chrome and navigate to the page where you would like to find a selector, for example, the login page for your site.
1. Open the `Elements` tab in Chrome DevTools with the keyboard shortcut `Command + Shift + c` in macOS or `Ctrl + Shift + c` in Windows.
1. Select the `Select an element in the page to select it` tool.
1. Once highlighted, you can see the element's details, including attributes that would make a good candidate for a selector.
In this example, the `id="user_login"` appears to be a good candidate. You can use this as a selector as the DAST username field by setting `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD: "css:[id=user_login]"`, or more simply, `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD: "id:user_login"`.
##### Choose the right selector
Judicious choice of selector leads to a scan that is resilient to the application changing.
In order of preference, it is recommended to choose as selectors:
-`id` fields. These are generally unique on a page, and rarely change.
-`name` fields. These are generally unique on a page, and rarely change.
-`class` values specific to the field, such as the selector `"css:.username"` for the `username` class on the username field.
- Presence of field specific data attributes, such as the selector, `"css:[data-username]"` when the `data-username` field has any value on the username field.
- Multiple `class` hierarchy values, such as the selector `"css:.login-form .username"` when there are multiple elements with class `username` but only one nested inside the element with the class `login-form`.
When using selectors to locate specific fields we recommend you avoid searching on:
- Any `id`, `name`, `attribute`, `class` or `value` that is dynamically generated.
- Generic class names, such as `column-10` and `dark-grey`.
- XPath searches as they are less performant than other selector searches.
- Unscoped searches, such as those beginning with `css:*` and `xpath://*`.
## Vulnerability detection
While the browser-based crawler crawls modern web applications efficiently, vulnerability detection is still managed by the standard DAST/Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) solution.
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For example, for a target website that contains forms with Anti-CSRF tokens, a passive scan will scan as intended because the browser displays pages/forms as if a user is viewing the page.
However, active vulnerability checks run in a full scan will not be able to submit forms containing Anti-CSRF tokens. In such cases we recommend you disable Anti-CSRF tokens when running a full scan.
## Authentication
If your application hosts content only available to logged in users then you will likely get much higher crawl coverage of your application by configuring authentication.
We recommended you periodically confirm that authentication is still working as this tends to break over
time due to changes to the application.
Authentication supports single form logins, multi-step login forms, and authenticating to URLs outside of the configured target URL.
An example configuration that authenticates a user might look like the following:
```yaml
include:
-template:DAST.gitlab-ci.yml
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
DAST_BROWSER_SCAN:"true"
DAST_AUTH_URL:"https://login.example.com/"
DAST_USERNAME:"admin"
DAST_PASSWORD:"P@55w0rd!"
DAST_USERNAME_FIELD:"name:username"
DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD:"name:password"
DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD:"css:button[type='submit']"
```
### Log in using automatic detection of the login form
By providing a `DAST_USERNAME`, `DAST_PASSWORD`, and `DAST_AUTH_URL`, the browser-based crawler will attempt to authenticate to the
target application by locating the login form based on a determination about whether or not the form contains username or password fields.
Automatic detection is "best-effort", and depending on the application being scanned may provide either a resilient login experience or one that fails to authenticate the user.
Login process:
1. The `DAST_AUTH_URL` is loaded into the browser, and any forms on the page are located.
1. If a form contains a username and password field, `DAST_USERNAME` and `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into the respective fields, the form submit button is clicked and the user is logged in.
1. If a form contains only a username field, it is assumed that the login form is multi-step.
1. The `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into the username field and the form submit button is clicked.
1. The subsequent pages loads where it is expected that a form exists and contains a password field. If found, `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted, form submit button is clicked and the user is logged in.
### Log in using explicit selection of the login form
By providing a `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD`, `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD`, and `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD`, in addition to the fields required for automatic login,
the browser-based crawler will attempt to authenticate to the target application by locating the login form based on the selectors provided.
Most applications will benefit from this approach to authentication.
Login process:
1. The `DAST_AUTH_URL` is loaded into the browser, and any forms on the page are located.
1. If the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is not defined, then `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD`, `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD`, `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked and the user is logged in.
1. If the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is defined, then it is assumed that the login form is multi-step.
1. The `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into the `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD` field and the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked.
1. The subsequent pages loads where the `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into the `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD` field, the `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked and the user is logged in.
### Verifying successful login
Once the login form has been submitted, the browser-based crawler determines if the login was successful. Unsuccessful attempts at authentication cause the scan to halt.
Following the submission of the login form, authentication is determined to be unsuccessful when:
- A `400` or `500` series HTTP response status code is returned.
- A new cookie/browser storage value determined to be sufficiently random has not been set.
In addition to these checks, the user can configure their own verification checks.
Each of the following checks can be used in conjunction with one another, if none are configured by default the presence of a login form is checked.
#### Verifying based on the URL
When `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL` is configured, the URL displayed in the browser tab post login form submission is directly compared to the URL in the CI/CD variable.
If these are not exactly the same, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
When `DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_VERIFICATION_SELECTOR` is configured, the page displayed in the browser tab is searched for an element described by the selector in the CI/CD variable.
If no element is found, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
When `DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM` is configured, the page displayed in the browser tab is searched for a form that is detected to be a login form.
If any such form is found, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
For example:
```yaml
include:
-template:DAST.gitlab-ci.yml
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
DAST_BROWSER_SCAN:"true"
...
DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM:"true"
```
### Configure the authentication debug output
It is often difficult to understand the cause of an authentication failure when running DAST in a CI/CD pipeline.
To assist users in debugging authentication issues, a debug report can be generated and saved as a job artifact.
This HTML report contains all steps the browser crawler took, along with HTTP requests and responses, the Document Object Model (DOM) and screenshots.
An example configuration where the authentication debug report is exported may look like the following:
```yaml
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
DAST_BROWSER_SCAN:"true"
...
DAST_BROWSER_AUTH_REPORT:"true"
artifacts:
paths:[gl-dast-debug-auth-report.html]
```
## Managing scan time
It is expected that running the browser-based crawler will result in better coverage for many web applications, when compared to the normal GitLab DAST solution.
#### Crawling web applications dependent on JavaScript
GitLab has released a new browser-based crawler, an add-on to DAST that uses a browser to crawl web applications for content. This crawler replaces the standard DAST Spider and Ajax Crawler.
GitLab has released a new browser-based crawler, an add-on to DAST that uses a browser to crawl web applications for content. This crawler replaces the standard DAST Spider and Ajax Crawler, and uses the same authentication mechanisms as a normal DAST scan.
The browser-based crawler crawls websites by browsing web pages as a user would. This approach works well with web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript, such as Single Page Applications.
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If your DAST job exceeds the job timeout and you need to reduce the scan duration, we shared some
tips for optimizing DAST scans in a [blog post](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/08/31/how-to-configure-dast-full-scans-for-complex-web-applications/).
#### Domain validation
WARNING:
In GitLab 13.8, domain validation, outside of the new on-demand scan site profile validation, was deprecated. In GitLab 14.0, domain validation in CI/CD jobs will be permanently removed.
The DAST job can be run anywhere, which means you can accidentally hit live web servers
and potentially damage them. You could even take down your production environment.
For that reason, you should use domain validation.
Domain validation is not required by default. It can be required by setting the
[CI/CD variable](#available-cicd-variables)`DAST_FULL_SCAN_DOMAIN_VALIDATION_REQUIRED` to `"true"`.
```yaml
include:
-template:DAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
DAST_FULL_SCAN_ENABLED:"true"
DAST_FULL_SCAN_DOMAIN_VALIDATION_REQUIRED:"true"
```
Since ZAP full scan actively attacks the target application, DAST sends a ping
to the target (normally defined in `DAST_WEBSITE` or `environment_url.txt`) beforehand.
- If `DAST_FULL_SCAN_DOMAIN_VALIDATION_REQUIRED` is `false` or unset, the scan
proceeds unless the response to the ping includes a `Gitlab-DAST-Permission`
header with a value of `deny`.
- If `DAST_FULL_SCAN_DOMAIN_VALIDATION_REQUIRED` is `true`, the scan exits
unless the response to the ping includes a `Gitlab-DAST-Permission` header with
a value of `allow`.
Here are some examples of adding the `Gitlab-DAST-Permission` header to a response
in Rails, Django, and Node (with Express).
##### Ruby on Rails
Here's how you would add a
[custom header in Ruby on Rails](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#setting-custom-headers):
[This snippet](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/dast/snippets/1894732) contains a complete `httpd.conf` file
configured to act as a remote proxy and add the `Gitlab-DAST-Permission` header.
### API scan
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10928) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.10.
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headers whose values you want masked. For details on how to mask headers, see
[Customizing the DAST settings](#customizing-the-dast-settings).
### Authentication
It's also possible to authenticate the user before performing the DAST checks.
## Authentication
NOTE:
We highly recommend you configure the scanner to authenticate to the application. If you don't, it cannot check most of the application for security risks, as most
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For each cookie a matching session token is created for use by ZAP. This ensures ZAP is recognized
by the application as correctly authenticated.
Other variables that are related to authenticated scans are:
Authentication supports single form logins, multi-step login forms, and authenticating to URLs outside of the configured target URL.
Variables that are related to authenticated scans are:
```yaml
include:
-template:DAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:https://example.com
DAST_AUTH_URL:https://example.com/sign-in
DAST_USERNAME_FIELD:session[user]# the name of username field at the sign-in HTML form
DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD:session[password]# the name of password field at the sign-in HTML form
DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD:login# the `id` or `name` of the element that when clicked will submit the login form or the password form of a multi-page login process
DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD:next# the `id` or `name` of the element that when clicked will submit the username form of a multi-page login process
DAST_EXCLUDE_URLS:http://example.com/sign-out,http://example.com/sign-out-2# optional, URLs to skip during the authenticated scan; comma-separated, no spaces in between
DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL:http://example.com/loggedin_page# optional, a URL only accessible to logged in users that DAST can use to confirm successful authentication
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
DAST_AUTH_URL:"https://login.example.com/"
DAST_USERNAME:"admin"
DAST_PASSWORD:"P@55w0rd!"
DAST_USERNAME_FIELD:"name:username"# a selector describing the element containing the username field at the sign-in HTML form
DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD:"id:password"# a selector describing the element containing the password field at the sign-in HTML form
DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD:"css:button[type='user-submit']"# optional, the selector of the element that when clicked will submit the username form of a multi-page login process
DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD:"css:button[type='submit']"# the selector of the element that when clicked will submit the login form or the password form of a multi-page login process
DAST_EXCLUDE_URLS:"http://example.com/sign-out"# optional, URLs to skip during the authenticated scan; comma-separated, no spaces in between
DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL:"http://example.com/loggedin_page"# optional, used to verify authentication is successful by expecting this URL once the login form has been submitted
DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_SELECTOR:"css:.user-profile"# optional, used to verify authentication is successful by expecting a selector to be present on the page once the login form has been submitted
DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM:"true"# optional, used to verify authentication is successful by ensuring there are no login forms on the page once the login form has been submitted
DAST_AUTH_REPORT:"true"# optionally output an authentication debug report
```
WARNING:
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includes actions like modifying and deleting data, submitting forms, and following links.
Only run an authenticated scan against a test server.
### Log in using automatic detection of the login form
By providing a `DAST_USERNAME`, `DAST_PASSWORD`, and `DAST_AUTH_URL`, DAST will attempt to authenticate to the
target application by locating the login form based on a determination about whether or not the form contains username or password fields.
Automatic detection is "best-effort", and depending on the application being scanned may provide either a resilient login experience or one that fails to authenticate the user.
Login process:
1. The `DAST_AUTH_URL` is loaded into the browser, and any forms on the page are located.
1. If a form contains a username and password field, `DAST_USERNAME` and `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into the respective fields, the form submit button is clicked and the user is logged in.
1. If a form contains only a username field, it is assumed that the login form is multi-step.
1. The `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into the username field and the form submit button is clicked.
1. The subsequent pages loads where it is expected that a form exists and contains a password field. If found, `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted, form submit button is clicked and the user is logged in.
### Log in using explicit selection of the login form
By providing a `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD`, `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD`, and `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD`, in addition to the fields required for automatic login,
DAST will attempt to authenticate to the target application by locating the login form based on the selectors provided.
Most applications will benefit from this approach to authentication.
Login process:
1. The `DAST_AUTH_URL` is loaded into the browser, and any forms on the page are located.
1. If the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is not defined, then `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD`, `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD`, `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked and the user is logged in.
1. If the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is defined, then it is assumed that the login form is multi-step.
1. The `DAST_USERNAME` is inputted into the `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD` field and the `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked.
1. The subsequent pages loads where the `DAST_PASSWORD` is inputted into the `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD` field, the `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` is clicked and the user is logged in.
### Verifying successful login
Once the login form has been submitted, DAST determines if the login was successful. Unsuccessful attempts at authentication cause the scan to halt.
Following the submission of the login form, authentication is determined to be unsuccessful when:
- A `400` or `500` series HTTP response status code is returned.
- A new cookie/browser storage value determined to be sufficiently random has not been set.
In addition to these checks, the user can configure their own verification checks.
Each of the following checks can be used in conjunction with one another, if none are configured by default the presence of a login form is checked.
#### Verifying based on the URL
When `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL` is configured, the URL displayed in the browser tab post login form submission is directly compared to the URL in the CI/CD variable.
If these are not exactly the same, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
When `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_SELECTOR` is configured, the page displayed in the browser tab is searched for an element described by the selector in the CI/CD variable.
If no element is found, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
When `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM` is configured, the page displayed in the browser tab is searched for a form that is detected to be a login form.
If any such form is found, authentication is deemed to be unsuccessful.
For example:
```yaml
include:
-template:DAST.gitlab-ci.yml
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
...
DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM:"true"
```
### Configure the authentication debug output
It is often difficult to understand the cause of an authentication failure when running DAST in a CI/CD pipeline.
To assist users in debugging authentication issues, a debug report can be generated and saved as a job artifact.
This HTML report contains all steps made during the login process, along with HTTP requests and responses, the Document Object Model (DOM) and screenshots.
An example configuration where the authentication debug report is exported may look like the following:
```yaml
dast:
variables:
DAST_WEBSITE:"https://example.com"
...
DAST_AUTH_REPORT:"true"
artifacts:
paths:[gl-dast-debug-auth-report.html]
```
### Available CI/CD variables
DAST can be [configured](#customizing-the-dast-settings) using CI/CD variables.
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| `DAST_WEBSITE` (**1**) | URL | The URL of the website to scan. `DAST_API_OPENAPI` must be specified if this is omitted. |
| `DAST_API_OPENAPI` | URL or string | The API specification to import. The specification can be hosted at a URL, or the name of a file present in the `/zap/wrk` directory. `DAST_WEBSITE` must be specified if this is omitted. |
| `DAST_API_SPECIFICATION` (**1**) | URL or string | [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/290241) in GitLab 13.12 and replaced by `DAST_API_OPENAPI`. To be removed in GitLab 15.0. The API specification to import. The specification can be hosted at a URL, or the name of a file present in the `/zap/wrk` directory. `DAST_WEBSITE` must be specified if this is omitted. |
| `DAST_SPIDER_START_AT_HOST` | boolean | Set to `false` to prevent DAST from resetting the target to its host before scanning. When `true`, non-host targets `http://test.site/some_path` is reset to `http://test.site` before scan. Default: `true`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/258805) in GitLab 13.6. |
| `DAST_SPIDER_START_AT_HOST` | boolean | Set to `false` to prevent DAST from resetting the target to its host before scanning. When `true`, non-host targets `http://test.site/some_path` is reset to `http://test.site` before scan. Default: `false`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/258805) in GitLab 13.6. |
| `DAST_AUTH_URL` (**1**) | URL | The URL of the page containing the sign-in HTML form on the target website. `DAST_USERNAME` and `DAST_PASSWORD` are submitted with the login form to create an authenticated scan. Not supported for API scans. |
| `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_URL` (**1**) | URL | A URL only accessible to logged in users that DAST can use to confirm successful authentication. If provided, DAST exits if it cannot access the URL. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/207335) in GitLab 13.8. |
| `DAST_USERNAME` (**1**) | string | The username to authenticate to in the website. |
| `DAST_PASSWORD` (**1**) | string | The password to authenticate to in the website. |
| `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD` (**1**) | string | The name of username field at the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD` (**1**) | string | The name of password field at the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_USERNAME` (**1**) | string | The username to enter into the username field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_PASSWORD` (**1**) | string | The password to enter into the password field on the sign-in HTML form. |
| `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD` (**1**) | selector | A selector describing the username field on the sign-in HTML form. Example: `id:user` |
| `DAST_PASSWORD_FIELD` (**1**) | selector | A selector describing the password field on the sign-in HTML form. Example: `css:.password-field` |
| `DAST_SKIP_TARGET_CHECK` | boolean | Set to `true` to prevent DAST from checking that the target is available before scanning. Default: `false`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/229067) in GitLab 13.8. |
| `DAST_MASK_HTTP_HEADERS` | string | Comma-separated list of request and response headers to be masked (GitLab 13.1). Must contain **all** headers to be masked. Refer to [list of headers that are masked by default](#hide-sensitive-information). |
| `DAST_EXCLUDE_URLS` (**1**) | URLs | The URLs to skip during the authenticated scan; comma-separated. Regular expression syntax can be used to match multiple URLs. For example, `.*` matches an arbitrary character sequence. Not supported for API scans. |
| `DAST_FULL_SCAN_ENABLED` (**1**) | boolean | Set to `true` to run a [ZAP Full Scan](https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/wiki/ZAP-Full-Scan) instead of a [ZAP Baseline Scan](https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/wiki/ZAP-Baseline-Scan). Default: `false` |
| `DAST_FULL_SCAN_DOMAIN_VALIDATION_REQUIRED` | boolean | [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/293595) in GitLab 13.8, to be removed in 14.0. Set to `true` to require [domain validation](#domain-validation) when running DAST full scans. Not supported for API scans. Default: `false` |
| `DAST_AUTO_UPDATE_ADDONS` | boolean | ZAP add-ons are pinned to specific versions in the DAST Docker image. Set to `true` to download the latest versions when the scan starts. Default: `false` |
| `DAST_API_HOST_OVERRIDE` (**1**) | string | Used to override domains defined in API specification files. Only supported when importing the API specification from a URL. Example: `example.com:8080` |
| `DAST_EXCLUDE_RULES` | string | Set to a comma-separated list of Vulnerability Rule IDs to exclude them from running during the scan. Rule IDs are numbers and can be found from the DAST log or on the [ZAP project](https://www.zaproxy.org/docs/alerts/). For example, `HTTP Parameter Override` has a rule ID of `10026`. Cannot be used when `DAST_ONLY_INCLUDE_RULES` is set. **Note:** In earlier versions of GitLab the excluded rules were executed but vulnerabilities they generated were suppressed. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/118641) in GitLab 12.10. |
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| `DAST_USE_AJAX_SPIDER` (**1**) | boolean | Set to `true` to use the AJAX spider in addition to the traditional spider, useful for crawling sites that require JavaScript. Default: `false`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/12652) in GitLab 13.1. |
| `DAST_PATHS` | string | Set to a comma-separated list of URLs for DAST to scan. For example, `/page1.html,/category1/page3.html,/page2.html`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/214120) in GitLab 13.4. |
| `DAST_PATHS_FILE` | string | The file path containing the paths within `DAST_WEBSITE` to scan. The file must be plain text with one path per line. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/258825) in GitLab 13.6. |
| `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | string | The `id` or `name` of the element that when clicked submits the login form or the password form of a multi-page login process. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/9894) in GitLab 12.4. |
| `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | string | The `id` or `name` of the element that when clicked submits the username form of a multi-page login process. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/9894) in GitLab 12.4. |
| `DAST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | selector | A selector describing the element that when clicked submits the login form, or the password form of a multi-page login process. Example: `xpath://input[@value='Login']`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/9894) in GitLab 12.4. |
| `DAST_FIRST_SUBMIT_FIELD` | selector | A selector describing the element that when clicked submits the username form of a multi-page login process. Example: `.submit`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/9894) in GitLab 12.4. |
| `DAST_ZAP_CLI_OPTIONS` | string | ZAP server command-line options. For example, `-Xmx3072m` would set the Java maximum memory allocation pool size. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/12652) in GitLab 13.1. |
| `DAST_ZAP_LOG_CONFIGURATION` | string | Set to a semicolon-separated list of additional log4j properties for the ZAP Server. For example, `log4j.logger.org.parosproxy.paros.network.HttpSender=DEBUG;log4j.logger.com.crawljax=DEBUG` |
| `DAST_AGGREGATE_VULNERABILITIES` | boolean | Vulnerability aggregation is set to `true` by default. To disable this feature and see each vulnerability individually set to `false`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/254043) in GitLab 14.0. |
| `DAST_MAX_URLS_PER_VULNERABILITY` | number | The maximum number of URLs reported for a single vulnerability. `DAST_MAX_URLS_PER_VULNERABILITY` is set to `50` by default. To list all the URLs set to `0`. [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/dast/-/merge_requests/433) in GitLab 13.12. |
| `DAST_AUTH_EXCLUDE_URLS` | URLs | [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/289959) in GitLab 13.8, to be removed in 14.0, and replaced by `DAST_EXCLUDE_URLS`. The URLs to skip during the authenticated scan; comma-separated. Regular expression syntax can be used to match multiple URLs. For example, `.*` matches an arbitrary character sequence. Not supported for API scans. |
| `DAST_AUTH_REPORT` | boolean | Used in combination with exporting the `gl-dast-debug-auth-report.html` artifact to aid in debugging authentication issues. |
| `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_SELECTOR` | selector | Verifies successful authentication by checking for presence of a selector once the login form has been submitted. Example: `css:.user-photo` |
| `DAST_AUTH_VERIFICATION_LOGIN_FORM` | boolean | Verifies successful authentication by checking for the lack of a login form once the login form has been submitted. |
1. DAST CI/CD variable available to an on-demand scan.
#### Selectors
Selectors are used by CI/CD variables to specify the location of an element displayed on a page in a browser.
Selectors have the format `type`:`search string`. The crawler will search for the selector using the search string based on the type.
| `css` | `css:.password-field` | Searches for a HTML element having the supplied CSS selector. Selectors should be as specific as possible for performance reasons. |
| `id` | `id:element` | Searches for an HTML element with the provided element ID. |
| `name` | `name:element` | Searches for an HTML element with the provided element name. |
| `xpath` | `xpath://input[@id="my-button"]/a` | Searches for a HTML element with the provided XPath. Note that XPath searches are expected to be less performant than other searches. |
| None provided | `a.click-me` | Defaults to searching using a CSS selector. |
##### Find selectors with Google Chrome
Chrome DevTools element selector tool is an effective way to find a selector.
1. Open Chrome and navigate to the page where you would like to find a selector, for example, the login page for your site.
1. Open the `Elements` tab in Chrome DevTools with the keyboard shortcut `Command + Shift + c` in macOS or `Ctrl + Shift + c` in Windows.
1. Select the `Select an element in the page to select it` tool.
1. Once highlighted, you can see the element's details, including attributes that would make a good candidate for a selector.
In this example, the `id="user_login"` appears to be a good candidate. You can use this as a selector as the DAST username field by setting `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD: "css:[id=user_login]"`, or more simply, `DAST_USERNAME_FIELD: "id:user_login"`.
##### Choose the right selector
Judicious choice of selector leads to a scan that is resilient to the application changing.
In order of preference, it is recommended to choose as selectors:
-`id` fields. These are generally unique on a page, and rarely change.
-`name` fields. These are generally unique on a page, and rarely change.
-`class` values specific to the field, such as the selector `"css:.username"` for the `username` class on the username field.
- Presence of field specific data attributes, such as the selector, `"css:[data-username]"` when the `data-username` field has any value on the username field.
- Multiple `class` hierarchy values, such as the selector `"css:.login-form .username"` when there are multiple elements with class `username` but only one nested inside the element with the class `login-form`.
When using selectors to locate specific fields we recommend you avoid searching on:
- Any `id`, `name`, `attribute`, `class` or `value` that is dynamically generated.
- Generic class names, such as `column-10` and `dark-grey`.
- XPath searches as they are less performant than other selector searches.
- Unscoped searches, such as those beginning with `css:*` and `xpath://*`.
### DAST command-line options
Not all DAST configuration is available via CI/CD variables. To find out all
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