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REST API for Mass Scanning

This documentation does not include all REST API endpoints. Please contact support if you need REST API access not documented here. All REST API endpoints are available in the REST API Browser.

Triggering a full Bitbucket rescan

If you are a Bitbucket admin or have been explicitly granted Security for Bitbucket permissions, you can schedule a rescan of all data on your Bitbucket instance with a single REST call like this:

CODE
curl -u admin -X PUT "https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/total_rescan?force=false{&email=admin@company.co}"

where

  • admin is your Bitbucket admin user (you’ll be prompted for a password),

  • bitbucket.server is the URL of your Bitbucket server,

  • force controls whether already scanned and up-to-date branches will be rescanned (can be true or false), and

  • email is an optional parameter that may be specified multiple times. Once the scan is completed, an e-mail notification will be sent to the specified e-mail addresses.

    • e.g., email=admin1@company.co&email=admin2@company.co

You can monitor progress of scanning on the Security Scan Report page.

Please note that if you have a large Bitbucket instance, all existing branches in all projects and repositories will be scanned, which may be very resource-consumptive and may take a long time to complete.

Scanning a project

If you are a project administrator or higher (Bitbucket admin, explicitly granted Security for Bitbucket permissions), you can scan all the branches of all the repositories in a project:

CODE
curl -u admin -X PUT "https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/projects/{projectKey}?force=false{&email=admin@company.co}"

where

  • admin is your project admin user (you’ll be prompted for a password),

  • bitbucket.server is the URL of your Bitbucket server,

  • projectKey is the key of the project to be scanned,

  • force controls whether already scanned and up-to-date branches will be rescanned (can be true or false), and

  • email is an optional parameter that may be specified multiple times. Once the scan is completed, an e-mail notification will be sent to the specified e-mail addresses.

    • e.g., email=admin1@company.co&email=admin2@company.co

Scanning a repository

If you have repository write permissions or higher, you can scan all the branches of a single repository:

CODE
curl -u user -X PUT "https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repoSlug}?force=false{&email=admin@company.co}"

where

  • user is your user (you’ll be prompted for a password),

  • bitbucket.server is the URL of your Bitbucket server,

  • projectKey is the key of the project to be scanned,

  • repoSlug is the slug (identifier) of the repository to be scanned,

  • force controls whether already scanned and up-to-date branches will be rescanned (can be true or false), and

  • email is an optional parameter that may be specified multiple times. Once the scan is completed, an e-mail notification will be sent to the specified e-mail addresses.

    • e.g., email=admin1@company.co&email=admin2@company.co

Scanning a branch

If you have repository write permissions or higher, you can scan a single branch in a repository:

CODE
curl -u user -X PUT "https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repoSlug}/branches?name={branch}&force=false{&email=admin@company.co}"

where

  • user is your user (you’ll be prompted for a password),

  • bitbucket.server is the URL of your Bitbucket server,

  • projectKey is the key of the project to be scanned,

  • repoSlug is the slug (identifier) of the repository to be scanned,

  • branch is the name of the branch to be scanned,

  • force controls whether already scanned and up-to-date branches will be rescanned (can be true or false), and

  • email is an optional parameter that may be specified multiple times. Once the scan is completed, an e-mail notification will be sent to the specified e-mail addresses.

    • e.g. email=admin1@company.co&email=admin2@company.co

Parallel Scans

See Scan Performance Tuning for details on how to adjust scan performance settings, like the number of scans run in parallel.

Cancelling Scans

To cancel queued (not started) scans:

BASH
curl -u admin -X DELETE https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/scheduled

To cancel started (currently scanning) scans:

BASH
curl -u admin -X DELETE https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/status/running

Exporting detected vulnerabilities

To export the full list of detected vulnerabilities from all projects, repositories, and branches, use the following command:

BASH
curl -u admin -o report.zip https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export-report?confirmExpensiveOperation=true

It will save vulnerabilities into the file report.zip in the working directory. Note that this may be very time and resource consumptive if you have many repositories or many detected vulnerabilities, so Bitbucket performance can be affected significantly.

To export vulnerabilities only for a selected project / repository / branch, use these requests:

BASH
curl -u admin https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export-report/projects/<PROJECT_KEY>
curl -u admin https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export-report/projects/<PROJECT_KEY>/repos/<REPOSITORY_SLUG>
curl -u admin https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export-report/projects/<PROJECT_KEY>/repos/<REPOSITORY_SLUG>?branch=<BRANCH_NAME>

Exporting reviewed findings

To export the full list of reviewed findings for all projects and repositories, use the following command:

BASH
curl -u admin -o reviewed.zip https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export/reviewed

It will save the reviewed findings into the file reviewed.zip in the working directory.

To export reviewed findings only for a specific project or repository:

CODE
curl -u admin https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export/reviewed/projects/<PROJECT_KEY>
curl -u admin https://{bitbucket.server}/rest/security/latest/export/reviewed/projects/<PROJECT_KEY>/repos/<REPO_SLUG>
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