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chore: limit workflow token permissions - #507
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The default GITHUB_TOKEN in this repo has write access to everything, so workflows without a permissions block (the docs build, the demo lint and pre-commit) ran with full write access. Give each of them only what it needs, and read workflow_dispatch and step outputs from env instead of expanding them inside run scripts.
WalkthroughThe workflows now declare default and job-level permissions. The C++ linter workflow passes its failed-check count through an environment variable. The release workflow selects a requested or fallback tag and force-pushes the annotated tag. ChangesWorkflow permissions
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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1
.github/workflows/mkdocs-deploy.yml: 1
14-18: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestrict deployment scopes in the shared workflow as a follow-up.
build-docsmust retainpages: writeandid-token: writeso the guardeddeployjob can publish Pages. The reusable workflow does not narrow permissions onbuild, so the build also receives those scopes. This caller cannot grant them only todeploy.The current change replaces unspecified caller permissions with an explicit scope set. Add the build restriction in
cpp-linter/.githubas a separate change:Suggested shared-workflow change
jobs: build: + permissions: + contents: read runs-on: ubuntu-latest🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/mkdocs-deploy.yml:
- Around line 14-18: In the shared reusable workflow, restrict the build job to
contents: read so it does not inherit Pages deployment scopes; keep pages: write
and id-token: write available to the guarded deploy job. Make this a separate
change from the caller workflow permissions.
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I'm guessing the reusable workflow only deploys on main branch and not for pull requests targeting main branch.
I say this because there is no condition in this calling workflow to prevent deploying docs on pull requests.
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Right. The reusable workflow's deploy job has if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main', so on PRs only build runs (you can see build-docs / deploy was skipped on this PR). A caller still has to grant pages/id-token up front because it can't scope permissions to individual jobs inside a reusable workflow.
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We can also scope deployments to a gh-pages environment (for hardened security), but that would require all org repos that call the workflow have a gh-pages environment setup (and allowed to run on main branch)
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Hardening for this repo's own workflows (no change to
action.yml):permissions: {}at the top ofcpp-linter.yml,mkdocs-deploy.ymlandpre-commit.yml, which had no permissions block and ran with the repository's default token, which can write everything. The demo lint and pre-commit getcontents: read; the docs workflow getscontents: readpluspages: writeandid-token: writefor the deploy job of the shared mkdocs workflow.release.yml: thetaginput is read fromenvand quoted, instead of being expanded inside the script. Same behavior: an empty input still falls back to the major version of the latest tag.cpp-linter.yml: thechecks-failedoutput is read fromenv.Related Issues
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