CAST HIGHLIGHT - CLI - Docker Image - Scanning the Image throws the error perl: error: Cannot run program

When a docker image is scanned the following error is generated perl: error: Cannot run program ""C:\Program Files\CAST\HighlightAgent\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe"": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

 

The logs are as follows: 
2023-05-15 14:07:26,123 INFO  highlight: perl\technos\find_technos.pl D:\SCA\Scan\DockerTest\tempDockerImgAnalyse6780 --output=D:\SCA\Scan\DockerTest\HLTemporary\discover --ignore= --ignorePath= --export=csv --nocrashprevent 
2023-05-15 14:07:26,134 INFO  perl: error: Cannot run program ""C:\Program Files\CAST\HighlightAgent\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe"": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

 

Details

• This could be due to not specifying the Perl installation directory. Please use the following option in the command line as mentioned in  Highlight Automated Code Scan (Command Line) 

--perlInstallDir (optional)
 Directory of perl installation (default: C:\Program Files\CAST\HighlightAgent\COTS\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0).

• Please check whether the requirements as mentioned in Scanning Docker Images
  are followed

 

Related Pages

How to use our Docker image

To know about the usage, proxy settings etc https://hub.docker.com/r/casthighlight/hl-agent-cli

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Additional Resources

CAST Highlight Troubleshooting Guides

CAST Highlight Product Documentation

 

Ticket Number 

41652,