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Add GitHub Actions security scanning with CodeQL and zizmor#1110

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Add GitHub Actions security scanning with CodeQL and zizmor#1110
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Summary

This PR contains multiple commits:

  • Add CodeQL workflow for static analysis of GitHub Actions workflows
  • Add zizmor audit for detecting security vulnerabilities in CI/CD configuration
    • Add Dependabot
  • Fix security findings identified by zizmor:
    • Add explicit permissions to CI workflow
    • Add persist-credentials: false to all actions/checkout usages
    • Pin GitHub Action Versions

Required Repository Settings

After merging, enable the following repository settings in "Rules" / "Rulesets":

Add "Require code scanning results" with the following tools:

  • CodeQL
  • zizmor

Set "Security Alerts" and "Alert" to "All":

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That way PR merges are blocked until all issues have been identified.

References

Restrict workflow permissions to read-only content access following
GitHub security best practices.
Replace mutable version tags with immutable commit hashes for
actions/checkout and erlef/setup-beam to prevent supply chain attacks.
Configure weekly automated dependency updates for GitHub Actions
to keep pinned action versions current.
Prevent GitHub token from being stored in the local git config
to mitigate the artipacked vulnerability.

See: https://docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#artipacked
Add CodeQL for static analysis of GitHub Actions and Zizmor for
workflow security auditing. Runs on push, PR, and weekly schedule.
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This pull request sets up GitHub code scanning for this repository. Once the scans have completed and the checks have passed, the analysis results for this pull request branch will appear on this overview. Once you merge this pull request, the 'Security' tab will show more code scanning analysis results (for example, for the default branch). Depending on your configuration and choice of analysis tool, future pull requests will be annotated with code scanning analysis results. For more information about GitHub code scanning, check out the documentation.

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