🔒 security(ci): harden workflow credentials, permissions, and execution controls - #19
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…on controls - Set persist-credentials: false on the GitGuardian, MegaLinter, and PSScriptAnalyzer checkouts; none of these jobs push back to the repository. - Add per-ref concurrency to GitGuardian with cancel-in-progress: false so queued incremental secret scans still cover every pushed commit range. - Add conservative finite job timeouts (20/45/20 minutes). - Add an explicit job-level contents: read permission to the GitGuardian job. - Replace MegaLinter's blanket DISABLE_ERRORS: true with ENABLE_ERRORS_LINTERS: ACTION_ACTIONLINT so findings remain reported while only a verified-clean linter gates the build. Refs #18 Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe GitGuardian, MegaLinter, and PSScriptAnalyzer workflows now set job timeouts and disable persisted checkout credentials. GitGuardian documents scan-range selection and grants ChangesWorkflow hardening
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The secret scan may cover only the head commit of a multi-commit push, so a credential in an earlier commit could go undetected. Pass the push's previous commit SHA as the scan base before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The changes generally reduce CI credential exposure without adding privileges or expanding scan authority. A verified scan-range weakness remains, but its configuration predates this PR. The new scan timeout introduces a completion limit; whether legitimate scans reach that limit is unknown. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation Issue Resolution Implement and validate an appropriate GitGuardian concurrency policy that preserves scan coverage, or obtain and record an issue-approved resolution to the concurrency requirement. Complete a successful MegaLinter run to verify the new gate and baseline.
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GitHub Actions retains only one pending run per concurrency group, so a third rapid push evicts the second run even when cancel-in-progress is false. Since each ggshield run scans only its own github.event.before -> head range, the evicted range would never be scanned. Removes the grouping and documents the tradeoff in the workflow. Addresses Codex review feedback on #19. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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ggshield v1.43.0 reads GITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHA (not github.event.before) and falls back to GITHUB_DEFAULT_BRANCH, then GITHUB_SHA~1... Verified against the pinned action source. Comment only; no behavior change. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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🟠 Major · Set GITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHA from the push’s before SHA. · GitGuardian.yml:43
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-693Set
GITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHAfrom the push’sbeforeSHA.
github.event.baseis not present inpushevents, so Line 43 leavesGITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHAempty. ggshield v1.43.0 reads that variable and does not readGITHUB_PUSH_BEFORE_SHA. On a multi-commit push, its fallback can scan only the head commit and miss a credential in an earlier commit.Use the push's previous commit
- GITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.base }} + GITHUB_PUSH_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.before }}For
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Closes #18
What changed
All three workflows (
GitGuardian.yml,MegaLinter.yml,PSScriptAnalyzer.yml)persist-credentials: falseon everyactions/checkout; none writes back to the repository.timeout-minutes(GitGuardian 20, MegaLinter 45, PSScriptAnalyzer 20).GitGuardian.ymlpermissions: contents: read.cancel-in-progress: false. Replacing a pending push run can leave its commits unscanned. The pinned ggshield range-selection logic and this tradeoff are documented in the workflow comment.MegaLinter.ymlDISABLE_ERRORS: truewithENABLE_ERRORS_LINTERS: ACTION_ACTIONLINT: Actionlint findings now block, while other linters still report but remain advisory. The v8.8.0 pinned source confirms this nonempty allowlist alone makes unlisted linters nonblocking;DISABLE_ERRORS: trueis not required.Why not make every linter blocking?
There is no
.mega-linter.ymlbaseline in this repository. Enforcing all stock-configured linters at once would makemainred or require unrelated product-code edits. Deferred: promote additional linters individually once each has a clean full-codebase baseline; tracked in #18. The PR MegaLinter run succeeds, but a full-codebasemainpush has not yet been observed.Preserved intentionally
VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE,DISABLE_LINTERS: SPELL_LYCHEE, SARIF upload, and artifact upload behavior.contents: readandsecurity-events: writefor checkout and SARIF upload. Removed itsactions: readpermission, needed only for private repositories; this repository is public.Validation
actionlint -no-color -oneline(all repo workflows)git diff --checkworkflow_dispatchrun 36794662048actions: readOnly the three workflows were changed.
External GitGuardian blocker
GitGuardian Scanfails withError: Invalid GitGuardian API key.on runs 36767605822, 36768249935, and 36769702357 (different heads). A repo admin needs to rotate theGITGUARDIAN_API_KEYsecret under Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions after obtaining a valid key from GitGuardian. This authentication failure is unrelated to the workflow-hardening changes. No workflow-code fix exists for an invalid API key; the scan remains enabled and failures remain blocking (no scan suppression). The separate GitGuardian Security Checks app check uses different authentication and succeeds.Summary by CodeRabbit