Integrated: 8293368: GitHub Workflows security hardening

Alex duke at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 16 17:21:50 UTC 2022


On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 20:37:27 GMT, Alex <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR adds explicit [permissions section](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#permissions) to workflows. This is a security best practice because by default workflows run with [extended set of permissions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#permissions-for-the-github_token) (except from `on: pull_request` [from external forks](https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/)). By specifying any permission explicitly all others are set to none. By using the principle of least privilege the damage a compromised workflow can do (because of an [injection](https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-untrusted-input/) or compromised third party tool or action) is restricted.
> It is recommended to have [most strict permissions on the top level](https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#token-permissions) and grant write permissions on [job level](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs) case by case.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: a27840e8
Author:    sashashura <93376818+sashashura at users.noreply.github.com>
Committer: Kevin Rushforth <kcr at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/commit/a27840e8fd7e79b1692488e4de7f6f5fdb930cf4
Stats:     3 lines in 1 file changed: 3 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8293368: GitHub Workflows security hardening

Reviewed-by: kcr, arapte

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/889


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