Merge pull request #21636 from jketema/actions-perm

 Actions: Correctly check reusable workflow permissions in `actions/missing-workflow-permissions`

Author: jketema

actions/ql/src/Security/CWE-275/MissingActionsPermissions.ql

@@ -26,10 +26,23 @@ string permissionsForJob(Job job) {
     "{" + concat(string permission | permission = jobNeedsPermission(job) | permission, ", ") + "}"
 }
 
+predicate jobHasPermissions(Job job) {
+  exists(job.getPermissions())
+  or
+  exists(job.getEnclosingWorkflow().getPermissions())
+  or
+  // The workflow is reusable and cannot be triggered in any other way; check callers
+  exists(ReusableWorkflow r | r = job.getEnclosingWorkflow() |
+    not exists(Event e | e = r.getOn().getAnEvent() | e.getName() != "workflow_call") and
+    forall(Job caller | caller = job.getEnclosingWorkflow().(ReusableWorkflow).getACaller() |
+      jobHasPermissions(caller)
+    )
+  )
+}
+
 from Job job, string permissions
 where
-  not exists(job.getPermissions()) and
-  not exists(job.getEnclosingWorkflow().getPermissions()) and
+  not jobHasPermissions(job) and
   // exists a trigger event that is not a workflow_call
   exists(Event e |
     e = job.getATriggerEvent() and

actions/ql/src/change-notes/2026-04-02-permissions.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+category: minorAnalysis
+---
+* The query `actions/missing-workflow-permissions` no longer produces false positive results on reusable workflows where all callers set permissions.

actions/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE-275/.github/workflows/perms11.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build and test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/deploy-pages

actions/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE-275/.github/workflows/perms12.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+  pages: write
+
+jobs:
+  call-workflow:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/perms11.yml