Prowler Security Scan

Version updated for https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler to version 5.25.0.

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Action Summary

Prowler is an open-source cloud security platform designed to automate security and compliance monitoring across any cloud environment. It provides hundreds of pre-configured security checks, compliance frameworks, and remediation guidance, enabling organizations to ensure real-time, scalable, and cost-effective cloud security. With AI-driven insights and seamless integrations, Prowler simplifies the process of identifying and addressing security risks in cloud infrastructure.

What’s Changed

✨ New features to highlight

Enjoy them all now for free at https://cloud.prowler.com/

📦 Official Prowler GitHub Action

prowler-cloud/prowler@5.25 is now an official GitHub Action. Drop it into any workflow to run a Prowler scan, optionally upload SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning, and push results to Prowler Cloud.

- uses: prowler-cloud/prowler@5.25
  with:
    provider: iac
    output-formats: sarif json-ocsf
    upload-sarif: true
    flags: --severity critical high
github actions

The action is pinned to the matching release tag, so v5.25 ships with prowler-cloud/prowler@5.25 ready to use.

🐙 GitHub — zizmor Workflow Scanning as a First-Class Service

The GitHub provider gains a new service: GitHub Actions, powered by zizmor for static analysis of workflow files. Prowler now scans .github/workflows/*.yml for the OWASP Top 10 CI/CD risks — script injection, overly permissive GITHUB_TOKEN, untrusted checkouts, dangerous triggers — and ships the findings through the same pipeline as every other GitHub check. This is your first line of defense against supply chain attacks: a poisoned action, a compromised tag, or a workflow that leaks secrets to a forked PR is exactly the kind of footgun zizmor catches before it ships. zizmor v1.24.1 is bundled into the API Docker image, so the service runs out of the box on Prowler Cloud and self-hosted alike.

Read more in our GitHub provider documentation.

Explore all GitHub checks at Prowler Hub.

🛡️ IaC — SARIF Output for GitHub Code Scanning

The IaC provider now emits SARIF via --output-formats sarif. Combined with the new GitHub Action, that means IaC misconfigurations land directly in the Security → Code Scanning tab on every PR — annotated on the offending Terraform, CloudFormation, Dockerfile, or Kubernetes manifest, with severity, remediation, and Prowler check metadata carried through.

Read more in our IaC provider documentation.

🖥️ UI — Compliance Page Redesign

The compliance page has been rebuilt: client-side search across frameworks, a more compact scan selector trigger, and redesigned compliance cards.

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🖥️ UI — Resources, Mutelist, and Filter Polish

A coordinated UX pass across the high-traffic surfaces:

  • Resources — batch-applied filters, syntax-highlighted metadata JSON, and tighter drawer behavior.
  • Mutelist — name and reason search, plus visual count badges on finding targets.
  • Shared filter dropdowns — local option search and auto-scroll to the first visible match across table and provider filters.
  • View Resource button — easy navigation to resource details directly from finding view.

📧 Google Workspace — Gmail Service

The Google Workspace provider gains a new Gmail service with 9 CIS-aligned checks covering user settings, link safety, end-user access, and spam/phishing controls — pulled directly from the Cloud Identity Policy API at the domain level.

  • gmail_mail_delegation_disabled
  • gmail_shortener_scanning_enabled
  • gmail_external_image_scanning_enabled
  • gmail_untrusted_link_warnings_enabled
  • gmail_pop_imap_access_disabled
  • gmail_auto_forwarding_disabled
  • gmail_per_user_outbound_gateway_disabled
  • gmail_enhanced_pre_delivery_scanning_enabled
  • gmail_comprehensive_mail_storage_enabled

Explore all Google Workspace checks at Prowler Hub.

🏛️ Prowler Cloud — Reports for Imported Scans

[!NOTE] Available exclusively in Prowler Cloud.

Imported scans (OCSF) now generate the same downloadable artifacts as CLI scans. The new download buttons are wired into both the scans table and the compliance views, so air-gapped, partner, and offline OCSF imports get the same reporting surface as a connected provider.

Read more in our reports documentation.

📊 CIS Benchmark PDF Reports

Compliance for the latest CIS variant of every provider get a Download PDF button, and the API exposes the underlying generator at GET /scans/{id}/cis/{name}/. Only the latest CIS version per provider surfaces the button — the backend rejects PDF generation for older variants — so the report you download always matches the benchmark you’d want to ship to an auditor.

Read more in our compliance documentation.

👥 Tenant User Expulsion

Tenant owners can now remove users from their organizations directly from the UI. Behind the scenes, DELETE /tenants/{tenant_pk}/memberships/{id} deletes the expelled user’s account when the removed membership was their last one and blacklists every outstanding refresh token, so existing sessions stop minting new access tokens immediately.

🔍 New Checks

AWS

  • secretsmanager_has_restrictive_resource_policy - evaluates resource-based policies for AWS Secrets Manager secrets — thanks to @kagahd!

GitHub

  • repository_default_branch_dismisses_stale_reviews — flags repositories whose default branch protection does not dismiss stale PR approvals when new commits are pushed (CIS 1.1.4) — thanks to @Mathisdjango!

Explore all GitHub checks at Prowler Hub.

🙌 External Contributors

Thank you to our community contributors for this release!

UI

🚀 Added

  • Download PDF button for CIS Benchmark compliance cards, surfaced only on the latest CIS variant per provider to match the backend’s latest-only PDF generation (#10650)
  • knip for dead code detection with lint:knip and lint:knip:fix scripts (#10654)
  • Resource button in the findings resource detail drawer to open the related resource page (#10847)

🔄 Changed

  • Redesign compliance page, client-side search for compliance frameworks, compact scan selector trigger, enhanced compliance cards (#10767)
  • Allows tenant owners to expel users from their organizations (#10787)
  • Shared filter dropdowns now support local option search and auto-scroll to the first visible match across table and provider filters (#10859)
  • Backward-compatibility middleware redirect from /sign-up?invitation_token=… to /invitation/accept?invitation_token=…; new invitation emails use /invitation/accept directly (#10797)
  • Mutelist improvements: table now supports name/reason search and visual count badges for finding targets (#10846)
  • Resources now use batch-applied filters, render metadata JSON with syntax highlighting, and more (#10861)
  • Table pagination controls now keep their arrows visible on hover in light theme, and more UI improvements (#10862)

API

🚀 Added

  • CIS Benchmark PDF report generation for scans, exposing the latest CIS version per provider via GET /scans/{id}/cis/{name}/ (#10650)
  • /overviews/resource-groups (resource inventory), /overviews/categories and /overviews/attack-surfaces now reflect newly-muted findings without waiting for the next scan. The post-mute reaggregate-all-finding-group-summaries task now also dispatches aggregate_scan_resource_group_summaries_task, aggregate_scan_category_summaries_task and aggregate_attack_surface_task per latest scan of every (provider, day) pair, rebuilding ScanGroupSummary, ScanCategorySummary and AttackSurfaceOverview alongside the tables already covered in #10827 (#10843)
  • Install zizmor v1.24.1 in API Docker image for GitHub Actions workflow scanning (#10607)

🔄 Changed

  • Allows tenant owners to expel users from their organizations (#10787)
  • aggregate_findings, aggregate_attack_surface, aggregate_scan_resource_group_summaries and aggregate_scan_category_summaries now upsert via bulk_create(update_conflicts=True, ...) instead of the prior ignore_conflicts=True / plain INSERT / already backfilled short-circuit. Re-runs triggered by the post-mute reaggregation pipeline no longer trip the unique_*_per_scan constraints nor silently drop updates, and are race-safe under concurrent writers (e.g. scan completion overlapping with a fresh mute rule) (#10843)
  • Rename the scan-category and scan-resource-group summary aggregators from backfill_* to aggregate_* (#10843)

🐞 Fixed

  • generate_outputs_task crashing with KeyError for compliance frameworks listed by get_compliance_frameworks but not loadable by Compliance.get_bulk (#10903)

SDK

🚀 Added

  • --repo-list-file CLI flag for GitHub provider to load repositories from a file (#10501)
  • SARIF output format for the IaC provider, enabling GitHub Code Scanning integration via --output-formats sarif (#10626)
  • repository_default_branch_dismisses_stale_reviews check for GitHub provider to ensure stale pull request approvals are dismissed when new commits are pushed (#10569)
  • Official Prowler GitHub Action (prowler-cloud/prowler@5.25) for running scans in GitHub workflows with optional --push-to-cloud and SARIF upload to GitHub Code Scanning (#10872)
  • GitHub Actions service for scanning workflow security issues using zizmor (#10607)
  • secretsmanager_has_restrictive_resource_policy check for AWS provider (#6985)

🐞 Fixed

  • Alibaba Cloud CS service SDK compatibility, harden other services and improve documentation (#10871)
  • AWS Organizations metadata retrieval for delegated administrator scans by using the assumed role session instead of the pre-assume credentials (#10894)
  • admincenter_groups_not_public_visibility check for M365 provider evaluating Security and Distribution groups, now restricted to Microsoft 365 (Unified) groups per CIS M365 Foundations 1.2.1 (#10899)
  • Google Workspace check reports now store the actual domain or account resource subject instead of provider.identity (#10901)
  • entra_users_mfa_capable evaluating disabled guest accounts; CIS 5.2.3.4 only targets enabled member users (#10785)