Contrast Security Rules API

A rule defines a data flow pattern used to categorize vulnerability and attack types. Some common rules are sql-injection, ssrf, and reflected-xss.

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GET /organizations/{organizationId}/rules/{ruleName} Get rule #

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OpenAPI Specification

contrast-security-rules-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Contrast Assess Applications Rules API
  description: Contrast Assess API for viewing and managing data, including vulnerabilities and libraries, for your organization in Contrast via your API key. See Contrast Documentation ( https://docs.contrastsecurity.com/en/assess.html) for more information.
  version: 4.0.0
  x-logo:
    url: /logo.svg
    href: /
servers:
- url: https://{baseUrl}
  variables:
    baseUrl:
      default: app.contrastsecurity.com
      description: The base URL of your Contrast instance
security:
- Contrast-API-Key: []
  Authorization: []
tags:
- name: Rules
  description: A rule defines a data flow pattern used to categorize vulnerability and attack types. Some common rules are sql-injection, ssrf, and reflected-xss.
paths:
  /organizations/{organizationId}/rules/{ruleName}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Rules
      summary: Get rule
      description: Gets information about a rule by its name.
      operationId: getRuleByRuleName
      parameters:
      - name: organizationId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        example: 2411f46c-7f57-426e-be61-82d583722c8d
      - name: ruleName
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        example: cache-controls-missing
      responses:
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound404'
        '200':
          description: Request successful
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/V4Rule'
components:
  schemas:
    V4Rule:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Unique name identifying this rule.
        title:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable title of this rule.
        description:
          type: string
          description: Description of the vulnerability type the rule is checking for.
        category:
          type: string
          description: Rule category. Rules are grouped into categories that have similar characteristics.
          enum:
          - ACCESS_CONTROL
          - AUTHENTICATION
          - CONFIGURATION
          - AVAILABILITY
          - CACHING
          - CVE
          - CRYPTOGRAPHY
          - ERROR_HANDLING
          - INJECTION
          - SECURE_COMMUNICATION
          - SESSION_MANAGEMENT
          - INPUT_VALIDATION
          - XSS
        severity:
          type: string
          description: Default severity to assign for vulnerabilities violating the rule. This can be customized by your organization.
          enum:
          - CRITICAL
          - HIGH
          - MEDIUM
          - LOW
          - NOTE
        confidence:
          type: string
          description: Level of confidence that vulnerabilities detected by this rule are true positives.
          enum:
          - LOW
          - MEDIUM
          - HIGH
        likelihood:
          type: string
          description: Likelihood of vulnerabilities detected by this rule to actually be exploited.
          enum:
          - LOW
          - MEDIUM
          - HIGH
        impact:
          type: string
          description: The level of negative impact an exploit of this vulnerability would have.
          enum:
          - LOW
          - MEDIUM
          - HIGH
        cweUrl:
          type: string
          description: Link to information about the CWE this rule addresses.
        owaspUrl:
          type: string
          description: Link to OWASP information about the vulnerability this rule addresses. QUESTION--Should these two be named Url, Uri or Link?
      description: A rule defines a data flow pattern used to categorize vulnerability and attack types. Some common rules are sql-injection, ssrf, and reflected-xss.
  responses:
    Unauthorized401:
      description: Unauthorized
      content:
        application/json:
          examples:
            Unauthorized:
              description: Unauthorized
              value:
                message: Authorization failure
                details: []
    Forbidden403:
      description: Forbidden
      content:
        application/json:
          examples:
            Forbidden:
              description: Forbidden
              value:
                message: Authorization failure
                details: []
    NotFound404:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          examples:
            Resource not found:
              description: Resource not found
              value:
                message:
                - Entity not found
                details: []
  securitySchemes:
    Contrast-API-Key:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: API-Key
    Authorization:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization