Creating a Credentials Variable for Dynamic Analysis Login Scripts

You can update credentials fields in login scripts by creating a scan engine variable that the Dynamic Analysis API uses at runtime.

Using a variable means login script creators do not need to know the credentials for the application to which Dynamic Analysis is logging in, nor do you need to create a new login script every time the credentials values change.

If you have the Security Lead role, you can create a scan engine variable for the Dynamic Analysis API.

To create a variable key/value pair, make a POST call to https://api.veracode.com/was/configservice/v1/scanner_variables, specifying the description, value, and optional reference key. The reference key is the value you use in your login script. Alternatively, you can use the scanner_variable_id that the API returns in response to a POST in your login scripts.

{
    "description": "Password key for my application",
    "reference_key": "MY_PASSWORD_KEY",
    "value": “hunter2"
    }

{
     "id": "5045080b-99ad-47e9-a8a6-7897bf4b5975",
     "comment": "",
     "command": "type",
     "target": "name=password",
     "targets": [        
     ["name=password", "name"],
     ["css=tr:nth-child(7) input:nth-child(2)", "css:finder"],
     ["xpath=//input[@name='password']", "xpath:attributes"],
     ["xpath=//tr[7]/td[2]/form/input[2]", "xpath:position"]      
     ], 
     "value": "${MY_PASSWORD_KEY}"
     }