nancy-fixer

nancy-fixer

nancy-fixer is a CLI tool that scans and automatically fixes nancy vulnerabilities.

Installation

Make sure that you have nancy.

go install github.com/giantswarm/nancy-fixer@latest

Usage

To fix vulnerabilities in the repository in the current directory use:

nancy-fixer fix

To specify a different directory use:

nancy-fixer fix --dir PATH

Steps

For each vulnerability, nancy-fixer will try three steps:

1. Update all dependencies that require the vulnerable package (in the case of a direct dependency this could be simply the vulnerable package itself)
2. Update the vulnerable package by adding a replace in the go.mod file.
3. Ignore the vulnerable package.

Limitations

Major Versions

Currently, nancy-fixer is not aware of different module names for different major versions. For example, say you have the dependency github.com/my/mod/v4 with version v4.1.0, but there is a version v5.0.0 available. This would require you to change the imported module to github.com/my/mod/v5. However, nancy-fixer will never try that.

Because of how major versions worked without changing this vN postfix before go modules, nancy-fixer will do major version bumps for packages that did not yet introduce modules. This stackoverflow question might explain more in that regard.