chore: Set permissions for GitHub actions (#6467)

Restrict the GitHub token permissions only to the required ones; this way, even if the attackers will succeed in compromising your workflow, they won’t be able to do much.

- Included permissions for the action. https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#token-permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs

[Keeping your GitHub Actions and workflows secure Part 1: Preventing pwn requests](https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/)

Signed-off-by: neilnaveen <42328488+neilnaveen@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: neilnaveen

.github/workflows/linter.yml

@@ -19,8 +19,14 @@ name: Lint Code Base
 
 on: [pull_request]
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
+      statuses: write  # for github/super-linter to mark status of each linter run
     name: SuperLinter Check
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps: