[StepSecurity] Apply security best practices#5000
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- scorecards.yml: replace workflow-level 'permissions: read-all' with least-privilege 'contents: read' (the analysis job already declares its own elevated permissions). Fixes the failing new_security_rating gate. - dependabot.yml: collapse the expanded NuGet directory list (~35 project dirs) back to the 4 Central Package Management roots (/build, /new-cli, /src, /tests/integration) where Directory.Packages.props lives, and drop the spurious '/' github-actions directory. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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actions/checkout v4.3.1->v7.0.0, actions/upload-artifact v4.6.2->v7.0.1, github/codeql-action/upload-sarif v3.36.2->v4.36.2 (matching init/analyze), ossf/scorecard-action v2.4.0->v2.4.3, dependency-review-action v4.9.0->v5.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the redundant ':dev-10.0' tag and keep the immutable digest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This pull request is created by StepSecurity at the request of @arturcic. Please merge the Pull Request to incorporate the requested changes. Please tag @arturcic on your message if you have any questions related to the PR.
Security Fixes
Least Privileged GitHub Actions Token Permissions
The GITHUB_TOKEN is an automatically generated secret to make authenticated calls to the GitHub API. GitHub recommends setting minimum token permissions for the GITHUB_TOKEN.
Harden Runner
Harden-Runner is an open-source security agent for the GitHub-hosted runner to prevent software supply chain attacks. It prevents exfiltration of credentials, detects tampering of source code during build, and enables running jobs without
sudoaccess. See how popular open-source projects use Harden-Runner here.Harden runner usage
You can find link to view insights and policy recommendation in the build log
Please refer to documentation to find more details.
Keeping your actions up to date with Dependabot
With Dependabot version updates, when Dependabot identifies an outdated dependency, it raises a pull request to update the manifest to the latest version of the dependency. This is recommended by GitHub as well as The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
Secure Dockerfiles
Pin image tags to digests in Dockerfiles. With the Docker v2 API release, it became possible to use digests in place of tags when pulling images or to use them in FROM lines in Dockerfiles.
Add Dependency Review Workflow
The Dependency Review Workflow enforces dependency reviews on your pull requests. The action scans for vulnerable versions of dependencies introduced by package version changes in pull requests, and warns you about the associated security vulnerabilities. This gives you better visibility of what's changing in a pull request, and helps prevent vulnerabilities being added to your repository.
Add OpenSSF Scorecard Workflow
OpenSSF Scorecard is an automated tool that assesses a number of important heuristics ("checks") associated with software security and assigns each check a score of 0-10. You can use these scores to understand specific areas to improve in order to strengthen the security posture of your project.
Scorecard workflow also allows maintainers to display a Scorecard badge on their repository to show off their hard work.
Maintain Code Quality with Pre-Commit
Pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. Hooks can be any scripts, code, or binaries that run at any stage of the git workflow. Pre-commit hooks are useful for enforcing code quality, code formatting, and detecting security vulnerabilities.
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