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OWASP/ZAP dangling when trying to scan

I am trying out OWASP/ZAP to see if it is something we can use for our project, but I cannot make it work I don't know what I am doing wrong and the documentation really does not help. What I am trying is to run a scan on my api running in a docker container locally on my windows machine so I run the command: docker run -v $(pwd):/zap/wrk/:rw -t owasp/zap2docker-stable zap-baseline.py -t http://172.21.0.2:8080/swagger.json -g gen.conf -r testreport.html the ip 172.21.0.2 is the IPAddress of my api container even tried with localhost and 127.0.0.1

but it just hangs in the following log message:

_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.
Feb 14, 2019 1:43:31 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO: Created user preferences directory.

Nothing happens and my zap docker container is in a unhealthy state, after some time it just crashes and ends up with a bunch of NullPointerExceptions. Is zap docker only working for linux, something specifically I need to do when running it on a windows machine? I don't get why this is not working even when I am following specifically the guideline in https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/wiki/Docker

Edit 1 My latest try where I am trying to target my host ip address directly and the port that I am exposing my api to gives me the following error:

_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.
Feb 14, 2019 2:12:07 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO: Created user preferences directory.
Total of 3 URLs
ERROR Permission denied
2019-02-14 14:12:57,116 I/O error(13): Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/zap/zap-baseline.py", line 347, in main
    with open(base_dir + generate, 'w') as f:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/zap/wrk/gen.conf'
Found Java version 1.8.0_151
Available memory: 3928 MB
Setting jvm heap size: -Xmx982m
213 [main] INFO org.zaproxy.zap.DaemonBootstrap
Solution

  • The key error here is:

    IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/zap/wrk/gen.conf'

    This means that the script cannot write to the gen.conf file that you have mounted on /zap/wrk

    Do you have write access to the cwd when its not mounted?