Harden GitHub Actions Workflow - dependency-review.yml

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Summary

This issue is created by StepSecurity related to security issues in dependency-review.yml . The platform has identified 2 vulnerabilities (1 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 1 low).

Remediation Overview

The platform can generate remediations for a few vulnerabilities. For such vulnerabilities, you can find the fixed workflow file in the Suggested Fix For Auto-Remediable Issues section. You can manually deploy these changes or create a pull request by commenting @stepsecurity-app pull-request create on this issue.

If you’d like an automated pull request with the fixed workflow file, comment:

@stepsecurity-app pull-request create

Other issues require manual investigation and changes.

Once a vulnerability has been remediated, ✅ will appear in the title. Note that it may take up to 24 hours for these issues to be updated.

Please review the individual vulnerability section below and follow the recommended resolution steps.

Security Checks Details

❌ Actions should be pinned to a full-length commit SHA

• Severity: Critical

• Description: GitHub Action tags and Docker tags are mutable. This poses a security risk. GitHub's Security Hardening guide recommends pinning actions to full length commit.

• Resolution: Pin Actions to a full-length commit SHA..

• Automated Remediation Available ?: true

• References:

  • GitHub Security Guide

  • The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide

❌ Network and runtime security monitoring should be enabled for GitHub-hosted runners

• Severity: Low

• Description: This check passes if the step-security/harden-runner GitHub Action is used in a job that runs on a GitHub-hosted runner. Harden-Runner prevents exfiltration of code and CI/CD credentials, and detects tampering of files during build.

• Resolution: Add the step-security/harden-runner GitHub Action to the job.

• Automated Remediation Available ?: true

• References:

  • GitHub Security Guide

  • The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide

Suggested Fix For Auto-Remediable Issues

Below is the updated workflow, which fixes the following security vulnerabilities:

• Actions should be pinned to a full-length commit SHA

• Network and runtime security monitoring should be enabled for GitHub-hosted runners

  # Dependency Review Action
  #
  # This Action will scan dependency manifest files that change as part of a Pull Request,
  # surfacing known-vulnerable versions of the packages declared or updated in the PR.
  # Once installed, if the workflow run is marked as required, PRs introducing known-vulnerable
  # packages will be blocked from merging.
  #
  # Source repository: https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action
  # Public documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/about-dependency-review#dependency-review-enforcement
  name: 'Dependency review'
  on:
    pull_request:
      branches: [ "master", "opent" ]
  # If using a dependency submission action in this workflow this permission will need to be set to:
  #
  # permissions:
  #   contents: write
  #
  # https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api
  permissions:
    contents: read
    # Write permissions for pull-requests are required for using the `comment-summary-in-pr` option, comment out if you aren't using this option
    pull-requests: write
  jobs:
    dependency-review:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      steps:
        - name: 
+ Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
+         uses: step-security/harden-runner@bf7454d06d71f1098171f2acdf0cd4708d7b5920 # v2.20.0
+         with:
+           egress-policy: audit
+       - name: 
  'Checkout repository'
          uses: actions/checkout@
+ 11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # 
  v4
+ .4.0
        - name: 'Dependency Review'
          uses: actions/dependency-review-action@
+ 2031cfc080254a8a887f58cffee85186f0e49e48 # 
  v4
+ .9.0
          # Commonly enabled options, see https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action#configuration-options for all available options.
          with:
            comment-summary-in-pr: always
          #   fail-on-severity: moderate
          #   deny-licenses: GPL-1.0-or-later, LGPL-2.0-or-later
          #   retry-on-snapshot-warnings: true

Additional Information

For more information, refer to the documentation page here.
Please don't make any changes in the description as the platform makes automated updates in description. Please use the comment section below to provide input.

Automated remediation commands and options

• Create a pull request with automated security fixes

@stepsecurity-app pull-request create

• Close this issue and prevent it from being reopened

@stepsecurity-app issue close <REASON>

• Update issue description with latest security check status

@stepsecurity-app issue force-update

• View all available commands and their usage

@stepsecurity-app help

Which GitHub Actions security best practices were evaluated?

The workflow was evaluated for the following GitHub Actions security best practices:

• Network & runtime security monitoring
• Token permissions
• Third‐party GitHub Actions usage & pinning