fix(general): escape default ignored directories

[tpvasconcelos]

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See #6737 for more details and context:

While trying to run checkov's test suit on my local machine I noticed that some files were being (unexpectedly) ignored. After a little digging, I realised that this is because I cloned the repo under a path that looks something like: ~/my_git_forks/checkov.

The reason this is a problem is because the following patterns are treated as regular expressions by checkov:

checkov/checkov/secrets/utils.py

Line 10 in 42d3178

EXCLUDED_PATHS = [*ignored_directories, DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_MODULES_DIR, ".idea", ".git", "venv"]

and the .git pattern obviously excludes any paths that include the word 'git' (incl. at least one preceding character)

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Enhance the directory exclusion mechanism by introducing a regex-based approach to match paths containing specific directories at any level. This change affects the IGNORED_DIRECTORIES_ENV in base_runner.py and updates the EXCLUDED_PATHS in utils.py to use the new re_dir function. The re_dir function compiles regex patterns for directories, ensuring paths like .git are correctly excluded. Tests in test_base_runner.py verify the new regex functionality.

Topic	Details
Regex Function Testing	Add tests to verify the new regex functionality for directory exclusion. Modified files (1) tests/common/runners/test_base_runner.py Latest Contributors(2) User Commit Date 86768411+YaaraVerner@u... fix-general-fix-exclud... December 26, 2022 [email protected] add-file-types-for-all... April 23, 2022
Regex Directory Matching	Implement a regex-based approach to match paths containing specific directories at any level using the re_dir function. Modified files (2) checkov/secrets/utils.py checkov/common/runners/base_runner.py Latest Contributors(2) User Commit Date 16597193+omryMen@users... chore-secrets-update-d... October 15, 2024 49649760+lirshindalman... platform-general-remov... January 28, 2024

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