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sec(ci): scan the Go binaries in the shipped image, not just the source - #1841
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Every scanner in this pipeline reads the repository: govulncheck runs in source mode over the six modules, Trivy runs with scan-type fs and config. docker-build built the image, ran --version against it, and threw it away. A vulnerable binary baked into the artifact was unreachable by construction, which is how two consecutive rounds of CVE fixes went green while the image stayed vulnerable: #1832 bumped the toolchain CI reads but not the one the image built on, and #1833's first fix cleaned /app/cudly while /usr/local/bin/migrate stayed an upstream prebuilt release carrying go1.25.4 and 69 advisories, executed on every container start by entrypoint.sh. scripts/scan-shipped-image.sh exports the built image's filesystem, asks `go version` about every regular file in it, and runs govulncheck in binary mode over each Go binary it finds. It deliberately takes no list of paths: a third binary added later is exactly what must not become invisible again. /app/cudly must be among the binaries found, so an enumeration that reads the wrong filesystem fails rather than reporting a clean run it never did. It fails on any advisory with a published fixed version, at any severity, and tolerates (while still printing) advisories with no published fix. Today /app/cudly carries exactly one of the latter, GO-2026-5932, whose introduced version is "0" with no fix now or ever; gating on it would make the check permanently red with no available action. That is a property of the finding, not an allowlist of ids: an advisory becomes gating the moment upstream publishes a fix, and nothing here needs editing when the set changes. The steps live in docker-build rather than a new job so the image is not built a third time; docker-build is already in ci-success's needs, and has no job-level `if:`, so the gate cannot pass by being skipped. `load: true` exports the built tag into the local image store so the scan inspects the artifact this job produced rather than a rebuild of it. scripts/test-scan-shipped-image.sh runs in the same job and asserts both directions of the verdict against recorded govulncheck output, so a scanner that can no longer fail cannot ship as coverage. Its fixtures are real records: the prebuilt migrate binary that shipped before #1833, /app/cudly as built on main, and the empty output of migrate as built on main. ci-success now allowlists on success instead of denylisting 'failure' and 'cancelled'. A job that never dispatched reports 'skipped', which the old form counted as a pass, so a gate could satisfy the summary by not running. Its "all checks passed" summary line no longer posts unconditionally, where it previously claimed success on a failed run. Not covered: OS package CVEs in the base image. govulncheck only knows Go modules and the standard library. A Trivy scan-type: image step would cover them, but the pinned alpine:3.21.3 runtime base already carries fixable CRITICAL/HIGH openssl, musl and zlib advisories, so that gate would land red; it needs a base bump first and is tracked separately. Closes #1836
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CI->>Docker: Build and load tagged image
CI->>scan-shipped-image.sh: Run image scan
scan-shipped-image.sh->>Docker: Export image filesystem
scan-shipped-image.sh->>govulncheck: Scan discovered Go binaries
govulncheck-->>scan-shipped-image.sh: Return advisory findings
scan-shipped-image.sh-->>CI: Return scan result
CI->>CI: Require every job result to be success
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In `@scripts/scan-shipped-image.sh`:
- Around line 92-104: The scan summary logic must reject incomplete Govulncheck
JSON streams instead of classifying them as clean. In the jq filter used by the
summary generation, require the first message to contain config.protocol_version
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classify_findings guarded only against a jq parse error, and none of the
inputs that matter is one. An empty stream, a lone `{}`, and a stream
carrying no finding records are all well-formed JSON that the filter turns
into `[]` with jq exiting 0. `[]` then read as zero findings, which read as
a clean binary. So a govulncheck invocation that silently produced nothing
certified the image as clean, which is the failure shape this whole check
exists to close, one level up.
Reproduced before fixing:
empty stream jq_rc=0 result=[]
{} jq_rc=0 result=[]
{"osv":{"id":"X"}} jq_rc=0 result=[]
Require the stream's first message to carry config.protocol_version, which
every real govulncheck run emits, and return 2 when it does not. The jq
chain is total (`objects`/`strings` yield nothing rather than erroring on
the wrong type), so a first message of any other shape is rejected rather
than throwing. A top-level `[]` is a genuine parse error and does not
exercise this path, so it is not used as the regression case.
The recorded fixtures now open with the config message govulncheck really
emitted, so they stay representative of a real stream. no-findings.jsonl
becomes a config-only stream, which is what a genuinely clean run looks
like and is exactly what distinguishes it from the two new degenerate
fixtures. The suite goes from 6 cases to 8, all passing, and a fourth
mutation (guard removed) turns it red.
Refs #1836
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In `@scripts/scan-shipped-image.sh`:
- Around line 96-107: Update the protocol validation in the govulncheck report
handling to accept only the exact version v1.0.0, rejecting any other non-empty
config.protocol_version with exit status 2. Add a fixture covering an
unsupported non-empty protocol version and assert that the scan exits with
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The report guard accepted any non-empty config.protocol_version, and
non-empty is not a restriction. A future govulncheck emitting a different
schema satisfies a presence check, flows through the same
`select(has("finding"))` filter, produces zero findings and classifies as a
clean binary. That is the same fail-open one version bump away, and it
arrives silently on a tool upgrade rather than through a code change anyone
reviews.
Compare protocol_version to "v1.0.0" exactly, the value govulncheck v1.1.4
emits. The extraction chain stays total, so a first message of any other
shape still lands on "" and is rejected rather than throwing. The error
reports what it found against what it expected and names the pinned
govulncheck version, so whoever hits it after an upgrade knows the parser
needs revalidating rather than that the scan is broken. Both version
constants carry a pointer to the govulncheck pin in ci.yml they must move
with.
New fixture wrong-protocol-version.jsonl is the real config message with
only protocol_version changed to v2.0.0. It carries no finding records this
parser can see, so before this change it classified as clean; it now exits
2. The suite goes from 8 cases to 9, all passing, and the mutation harness
grows a fifth case asserting that relaxing the comparison back to a presence
check turns the suite red.
Refs #1836
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…isories The pinned runtime base alpine:3.21.3 shipped 17 fixable CRITICAL and HIGH OS advisories, measured with --ignore-unfixed so every one had a published fix available. The notable one is a libssl3 heap buffer overflow triggered by a large X.509 certificate, in a service that terminates TLS and connects to databases over TLS. Bumped to alpine:3.24.1, re-pinned by digest. The digest was confirmed three independent ways rather than trusting a single server-reported value: docker buildx imagetools inspect, the registry v2 API Docker-Content-Digest header, and a content hash of the fetched manifest. It is the multi-arch OCI image index digest rather than a per-platform manifest, so it stays correct for every TARGETARCH. All three were re-verified immediately before committing, because a genuine digest went stale mid-flight during #1835 when the upstream tag was re-pushed onto a rebuilt image. Every candidate was measured rather than assuming newest-is-cleanest, and that caution was warranted: 3.23.5 and 3.22.5 were rebuilt on 2026-06-22, after 3.24.1 was published on 2026-06-16, so newest-tag and most-recently-rebuilt disagreed. Verified against the built artifact rather than the base tag alone, which is the distinction #1836 exists for: the image was rebuilt and rescanned, and the image scanner added by #1841 still passes on it, so the gate that now blocks CI is not regressed. This unblocks adding Trivy scan-type image to CI. That was deliberately left out of #1841 because gating on OS packages while the base carried fixable advisories would have landed red on day one, and not gating would have printed an unactionable wall on every PR. The ordering was bump first, then gate; the gate is the remaining half. Note on process: #1842 was auto-closed by the #1841 merge without any base bump having landed, because that PR's description contained the phrase resolve #1842 while explaining the ordering. GitHub parses closing keywords in the PR description as well as the commit message and does not read the surrounding prose. It was reopened and the work done here. Closes #1842
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Closes #1836
The gap
Every scanner in
ci.ymlreads the repository, never the artifact:govulncheckruns in source mode over the six modules, Trivy runs withscan-type: fsandscan-type: config.docker-buildbuilt the image, ran--versionand--helpagainst it, and discarded it.So a vulnerable binary baked into the image was unreachable by the pipeline by construction. That is how two consecutive rounds of CVE fixes went green while the shipped image stayed vulnerable:
govulncheckwent green. The image still built on go1.26.5./app/cudly, but the image ships a second Go binary:/usr/local/bin/migrate, an upstream prebuilt golang-migrate release carrying go1.25.4 and 69 advisories, executed on every container start byscripts/entrypoint.shwithDB_AUTO_MIGRATE=trueby default.Which shape, and why
govulncheck -mode=binaryover the binaries in the image, not a Trivyscan-type: imagestep.Binary mode is the precise match for the failure that occurred (a Go binary compiled from a superseded toolchain, and a stale third-party Go binary), and it reuses the govulncheck pin the
security-scanjob already carries.Trivy
scan-type: imagecovers what govulncheck structurally cannot: OS package CVEs in the base layer. It is not in this PR, and that is a real narrowing rather than an oversight, so here is the measurement behind it. The pinned runtime basealpine:3.21.3already carries fixable CRITICAL/HIGH advisories today:Adding that gate now would land the PR red on day one for a reason this PR does not fix. It needs a runtime base bump first, and that ordering is tracked in #1842 (bump the base, then add the Trivy image gate). This PR does not resolve #1842.
What it fails on, exactly
Fails on any advisory with a published fixed version, in any Go binary in the image, at any severity. That is precisely the class that occurred: a binary built on a superseded Go toolchain carries stdlib advisories fixed in a later patch release; a stale third-party binary carries module advisories fixed in a later release. Both are actionable by rebuilding or bumping.
Tolerates, while still printing on every run, an advisory with no published fix. Today
/app/cudlycarries exactly one: GO-2026-5932 (golang.org/x/crypto/openpgpis unmaintained),introduced: "0", no fixed version now or ever. Gating on it would make this check permanently red with no available action, which is how gates get disabled.This is a property of the finding, not an allowlist of advisory ids. Nothing needs editing when the set of unfixable advisories changes, and an advisory becomes gating the moment upstream publishes a fix. There is no
continue-on-errorand no ignore file.Enumerates, does not sample. It exports the image filesystem and asks
go versionabout every regular file (~1500 in this image, under a second), rather than taking a list of paths. A third binary added later is exactly what must not become invisible again. As a tripwire against a silently empty enumeration,/app/cudlymust be among the binaries found.What it would have caught
/app/cudlybuilt on go1.26.5 while CI read a newer toolchain): caught. The check reports each binary's own toolchain and gates on the stdlib advisories that carry a fixed version. Note that this specific route is now closed upstream of the check too:go.moddeclaresgo 1.26.6, so a builder image below that no longer produces a stale binary silently./usr/local/bin/migrateshipping go1.25.4): caught, and demonstrated below on a rebuilt pre-sec(build): shipped image still builds on go1.26.5, so the stdlib CVEs remain in the artifact after #1832 #1833 image: 65 fixable advisories, exit 1.Verification
Both directions, run against locally built images.
Red on a known-bad image. Rebuilt with the prebuilt
migratedownload restored (the pre-#1833 Dockerfile). The mutated Dockerfile lived outside the repo (docker build -f), so no tracked file was touched;git status --shortshows only the intended change.65 fixable + 4 unfixable = the 69 advisories the #1835 review counted.
Green on the current image, built from this branch:
A Go binary at a path nobody listed (the go1.25.4 binary copied to
/opt/vendor/vendored-helper) is found and gates:The enumeration cannot come back silently empty.
alpine:3.21.3(no Go binaries) exits 1, not 0. An image with a Go binary but no/app/cudlyexits 1 and prints what it did find.The self-tests are not vacuous. Four mutations of a copy of the check script (classifier can never fail; fixable/unfixable split inverted; missing output treated as clean; degenerate stream treated as a real report) each turn
scripts/test-scan-shipped-image.shred. The repo tree was never mutated.Assertion method. No
grep -c 'Module: stdlib'anywhere; that pattern matches nothing in govulncheck v1.1.4 and returns 0 whether or not findings exist. The verdict comes from-format jsonparsed withjq, and everyjqresult is checked: errexit is suppressed inside a function whose status the caller is testing, so an unchecked parse failure would have left the counts empty and landed in the "clean" branch. Malformed output is exit 2 (could not check), never exit 0.The stream must be a real govulncheck report before a verdict is read from it. Checking only for a parse error was not enough, because an empty stream, a lone
{}, and a stream carrying nofindingrecords are all well-formed JSON that yield zero findings, and zero findings classified as a clean binary: an invocation that silently produced nothing would have certified the image. The scan now requires the first message to carryconfig.protocol_version, which every real run emits, and returns 2 otherwise. Each of those three inputs is now exit 2, and a config-only stream (what a genuinely clean run looks like) still classifies as clean and exits 0. A top-level[]is a jq parse error and was deliberately not used as the regression case, since it does not exercise this path.Exit codes are captured into variables at the call site, never read from
${PIPESTATUS[0]}after a subshell.The Linux path was exercised, not assumed: GNU tar 1.35 extracting the
docker exportstream as a non-root user inubuntu:24.04succeeds and enumerates the same file set.Gating
The steps live in
docker-buildrather than a new job, so the image is not built a third time.docker-buildis already inci-success'sneedsand has no job-levelif:, so the check cannot pass by being skipped.ci-successnow allowlists on success instead of denylistingfailureandcancelled. A job that never dispatched reportsskipped, which the old form counted as a pass, so a gate could satisfy the summary by not running at all. Verified against all four result values:skippedpassed under the old form and fails under the new one. Its "all checks passed" summary step no longer posts unconditionally, where it previously claimed success on a failed run.load: trueon the build step exports the built tag into the local image store, so the scan inspects the artifact this job produced rather than a rebuild of it.Runtime cost
The scan itself is ~9s locally on a 147 MB image (rootfs export, 1500-file enumeration, two binary scans). In CI, add
actions/setup-go,go install govulncheck@v1.1.4, theload: trueexport, and a cold vulnerability-database fetch: roughly 1.5 to 3 minutes on a job that already runs 8 to 10. The self-tests are hermetic (no network, no docker) and take under a second.Not changed, but worth noting for a follow-up: the existing
Test Docker imagestep runs a full seconddocker buildof the same context, and swallows bothdocker runfailures with|| true.Not covered
go versionis the discriminator, so a vulnerable C binary added to the image is out of scope for this check; Trivyscan-type: imageis the tool for that.-ldflags="-s -w", so govulncheck reports at module granularity. That is deliberately conservative: it over-reports rather than missing a symbol it cannot resolve.Summary by CodeRabbit
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