Replace dead Prowler IaC mutelist with Trivy ignorefile shim

Prowler's IaC provider hardcodes self._mutelist = None and delegates
filtering to Trivy, but doesn't plumb --ignorefile through. The original
attempt with --mutelist-file silently no-op'd. Add a wrapper around
trivy in our image that injects --ignorefile $TRIVY_IGNOREFILE on `fs`
subcommands; switch the IaC cronjob to mount a Trivy-format
trivyignore.yaml and set the env var.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

argocd/manifests/prowler/cronjob-iac-scan.yaml

@@ -19,13 +19,19 @@ spec:
             - name: prowler
               image: registry.ops.eblu.me/blumeops/prowler:kustomized
               command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
+              # Prowler's --mutelist-file is a no-op for the IaC provider
+              # (it delegates to Trivy). The Prowler image's trivy shim
+              # injects --ignorefile $TRIVY_IGNOREFILE when set; see
+              # containers/prowler/Dockerfile.
+              env:
+                - name: TRIVY_IGNOREFILE
+                  value: /mutelist/trivyignore.yaml
               args:
                 - |
                   DATEDIR=/reports/prowler-iac/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
                   mkdir -p "$DATEDIR"
                   prowler iac \
                     --scan-repository-url https://forge.ops.eblu.me/eblume/blumeops.git \
-                    --mutelist-file /mutelist/iac.yaml \
                     -z \
                     --output-formats html csv json-ocsf \
                     --output-directory "$DATEDIR"
@@ -44,5 +50,5 @@ spec:
               configMap:
                 name: prowler-mutelist
                 items:
-                  - key: iac.yaml
+                  - key: trivyignore.yaml
-                    path: iac.yaml
+                    path: trivyignore.yaml

argocd/manifests/prowler/kustomization.yaml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ configMapGenerator:
       - mutelist/core-pod-security.yaml
       - mutelist/manual-node-checks.yaml
       - mutelist/rbac.yaml
-      - mutelist/iac.yaml
+      - mutelist/trivyignore.yaml
 
 images:
   - name: registry.ops.eblu.me/blumeops/prowler

argocd/manifests/prowler/mutelist/iac.yaml

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# IaC scan mutes — Trivy KSV checks against argocd/manifests/.
-#
-# Check ID format: "KSV-XXXX" (Trivy Kubernetes Security check IDs).
-# Region / Resource semantics for Prowler IaC: Region == repo path,
-# Resource == manifest file path (relative to repo root).
-Mutelist:
-  Accounts:
-    "*":
-      Checks:
-        "KSV-0041":
-          # Mutelist entries under one CHECK_ID share a Resources list.
-          # Each resource here justifies muting under a distinct CC; see
-          # the per-resource notes below.
-          Regions: ["*"]
-          Resources:
-            # CC: operator-purpose-bound-rbac. external-secrets-operator's
-            # entire function is to read and synthesize Secret objects;
-            # ClusterRole over secrets is its purpose. Both the controller
-            # and cert-controller are upstream-defined.
-            - "argocd/manifests/external-secrets/rbac.yaml"
-            # CC: kube-state-metrics-metadata-only. KSM exposes only
-            # Secret metadata (name, namespace, type, labels), never the
-            # data field. list/watch on secrets is required to expose
-            # kube_secret_info and kube_secret_labels.
-            - "argocd/manifests/kube-state-metrics/rbac.yaml"
-            - "argocd/manifests/kube-state-metrics-ringtail/rbac.yaml"
-          Description: >-
-            CC: operator-purpose-bound-rbac (external-secrets);
-            kube-state-metrics-metadata-only (kube-state-metrics).
-        "KSV-0114":
-          Regions: ["*"]
-          Resources:
-            - "argocd/manifests/external-secrets/rbac.yaml"
-          Description: >-
-            CC: operator-purpose-bound-rbac. cert-controller manages the
-            external-secrets validating webhook configurations to inject
-            its own rotating CA bundle. RBAC is scoped to two named
-            webhooks (secretstore-validate, externalsecret-validate) via
-            resourceNames; KSV-0114 doesn't see the resourceNames
-            restriction so reports the full ClusterRole.

argocd/manifests/prowler/mutelist/trivyignore.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Trivy ignorefile for Prowler IaC scan.
+#
+# Prowler's `--mutelist-file` flag is a no-op for the IaC provider
+# (iac_provider.py sets self._mutelist = None and delegates to Trivy).
+# Trivy in turn does not auto-discover this YAML form from cwd, so the
+# Prowler image ships a shim wrapper around `trivy` that injects
+# --ignorefile $TRIVY_IGNOREFILE when the env var is set. The cronjob
+# mounts this file and sets TRIVY_IGNOREFILE accordingly.
+#
+# Schema: https://trivy.dev/latest/docs/configuration/filtering/
+# IDs use the hyphenated form Trivy displays (KSV-0041, not KSV0041).
+misconfigurations:
+  - id: KSV-0041
+    paths:
+      - "argocd/manifests/external-secrets/rbac.yaml"
+    statement: >-
+      CC: operator-purpose-bound-rbac. external-secrets-operator's entire
+      function is to read and synthesize Secret objects; ClusterRole over
+      secrets is its purpose. Both the controller and cert-controller are
+      upstream-defined.
+  - id: KSV-0041
+    paths:
+      - "argocd/manifests/kube-state-metrics/rbac.yaml"
+      - "argocd/manifests/kube-state-metrics-ringtail/rbac.yaml"
+    statement: >-
+      CC: kube-state-metrics-metadata-only. KSM exposes only Secret
+      metadata (name, namespace, type, labels), never the data field.
+      list/watch on secrets is required for kube_secret_info /
+      kube_secret_labels metrics.
+  - id: KSV-0114
+    paths:
+      - "argocd/manifests/external-secrets/rbac.yaml"
+    statement: >-
+      CC: operator-purpose-bound-rbac. cert-controller manages the
+      external-secrets validating webhook configurations to inject its
+      own rotating CA bundle. RBAC is scoped to two named webhooks
+      (secretstore-validate, externalsecret-validate) via resourceNames;
+      KSV-0114 doesn't see the resourceNames restriction so reports the
+      full ClusterRole.

containers/prowler/Dockerfile

@@ -44,10 +44,28 @@ RUN ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture) \
     && apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends wget ca-certificates \
     && wget -q "https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/download/v${TRIVY_VERSION}/trivy_${TRIVY_VERSION}_${TRIVY_ARCH}.tar.gz" -O /tmp/trivy.tar.gz \
     && tar xzf /tmp/trivy.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin trivy \
-    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/trivy \
+    && mv /usr/local/bin/trivy /usr/local/bin/trivy.real \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/trivy.real \
     && rm /tmp/trivy.tar.gz \
     && apt-get purge -y wget && apt-get autoremove -y && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Shim: Prowler's IaC provider invokes `trivy fs` directly with no
+# --ignorefile flag, so any TRIVY_IGNOREFILE the user sets is ignored.
+# This wrapper injects --ignorefile when the env var points at a real
+# file and the invocation is `trivy fs ...`. Other subcommands and
+# global-only invocations (--version, --help) pass through unchanged.
+# TODO(upstream): contribute --ignorefile plumbing to prowler-cloud/prowler
+# iac_provider.py so this shim isn't necessary.
+RUN printf '%s\n' \
+        '#!/bin/sh' \
+        'if [ "${1:-}" = "fs" ] && [ -n "${TRIVY_IGNOREFILE:-}" ] && [ -f "${TRIVY_IGNOREFILE}" ]; then' \
+        '    shift' \
+        '    exec /usr/local/bin/trivy.real fs --ignorefile "${TRIVY_IGNOREFILE}" "$@"' \
+        'fi' \
+        'exec /usr/local/bin/trivy.real "$@"' \
+        > /usr/local/bin/trivy \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/trivy
+
 RUN addgroup --gid 1000 prowler \
     && adduser --uid 1000 --gid 1000 --disabled-password --gecos "" prowler \
     && mkdir -p /tmp/.cache/trivy && chown prowler:prowler /tmp/.cache/trivy

docs/changelog.d/prowler-iac-mutelist.infra.md

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Address the 6 critical Prowler IaC findings against `argocd/manifests/`. The IaC cronjob now passes `--mutelist-file` (previously unused), fed from a new `mutelist/iac.yaml`. Two new compensating controls — `operator-purpose-bound-rbac` and `kube-state-metrics-metadata-only` — justify muting the `external-secrets` and `kube-state-metrics` Secret-access findings (KSV-0041, KSV-0114). Separately, `grafana-clusterrole` is tightened to remove `secrets` access entirely: the dashboard sidecar already only consumes ConfigMap-labeled dashboards, so its `RESOURCE` env var is now `configmap` instead of `both`.
+Address the 6 critical Prowler IaC findings against `argocd/manifests/`. Prowler's IaC provider hardcodes `self._mutelist = None` and delegates filtering to Trivy, but doesn't plumb `--ignorefile` through — so the documented "use Trivy filtering" path is actually broken. Added a shim around `trivy` in the Prowler image that injects `--ignorefile $TRIVY_IGNOREFILE` for `trivy fs` invocations when the env var points at a real file. The IaC cronjob now mounts `mutelist/trivyignore.yaml` (Trivy's per-path schema) and sets the env var. Two new compensating controls — `operator-purpose-bound-rbac` and `kube-state-metrics-metadata-only` — justify muting the `external-secrets` and `kube-state-metrics` Secret-access findings (KSV-0041, KSV-0114). Separately, `grafana-clusterrole` is tightened to remove `secrets` access entirely: the dashboard sidecar already only consumes ConfigMap-labeled dashboards, so its `RESOURCE` env var is now `configmap` instead of `both`.