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security: hold the OSV scanner image to a recorded digest - #187
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The OSV actions are pinned by commit, but each runs the Docker image ghcr.io/google/osv-scanner-action by tag, and a tag can be pushed again. The runner pulls that image while setting the job up, before the first step, so a first step now compares it with .github/osv-scanner-digest and fails on another digest or on no image at all. The scan does not start. In the pull request workflow the check runs before the checkout of the base, so the digest read is the branch's own. A Dependabot update of the action goes red until its new digest is written, which dependabot.yml now says next to the other two things a reviewer needs to know. TestTheScannerImageIsCheckedBeforeItRuns holds the step in every job that runs the scanner, ahead of the scan and of any git checkout, and holds the digest file to one sha256 digest. The deprecated --output and --gh-annotations give way to --output-file and --output-files. table:#stdout is named, because the reporter stops printing the list of findings once the annotations go to a terminal stream. Measured on v2.6.0: the JSON, the SARIF, the annotations and the list come out byte for byte as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Check name | Status | Explanation | Resolution |
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| No Obvious Performance Problems |  |
The new script runs one external docker image inspect process for every unique cached scanner image (.github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:39-41). Docker inspection accepts multiple image IDs, so a… |
Collect the unique image IDs and inspect them with one batch docker image inspect invocation. Parse the per-image results and retain the current mismatch reporting and exit status. |
| Safe File Parsing | |
The new guard reads YAML and digest files without path or size protection. In internal/guard/scannerimage_test.go:54 and :91, os.ReadFile follows symlinks; a workflow or digest symlink can make … |
Restrict every input to an existing regular file beneath the intended repository directory. Reject symlinks and other non-regular files before opening, and use a no-follow open where the platform supports it. Replace os.ReadFile plus unbo… |
| Clear User-Facing Text | |
The new digest-format error identifies the problem but does not tell the user how to fix it. In .github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:29, it says that $file does not hold one SHA-256 digest and tha… |
Replace the malformed-digest message with direct remediation, for example: ::error::$file is invalid: expected exactly one lowercase sha256 digest with 64 hexadecimal characters. Write the scanner image digest to $file and rerun the job. |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly describes the main security change: pinning the OSV scanner image to a recorded digest. It is specific, plain-language, and within the length limit. Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Tests For Changed Behavior The PR changes CI workflows, CI shell scripts, Dependabot guidance, and a recorded digest. It does not add non-UI application runtime behavior. It adds internal/guard/scannerimage_test.goto check s…No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers PASS. The PR adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added content contains no credentials, private URLs, local absolute paths, user names, internal hostnames/IPs, pers… No Hardcoded Ui Styling The pull request changes GitHub workflows, shell/configuration files, and a Go guard test. It does not add or modify XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF, or other GUI code. The UI styling check is not app… Desktop Robustness No explicit Desktop robustness failure is introduced. The PR adds a CI digest check and changes scanner output options. The script reads a repository digest, validates missing or malformed input, and … System Changes Are Reversible PASS: The PR only reads Docker image metadata, validates a digest, runs scanner workflows, writes scan outputs, and adds static workflow tests. It does not modify network rules, proxies, firewalls, sy… No Resource Leaks No resource leak is introduced. The new shell script only runs short-lived Docker and Unix commands; it does not create or retain timers, handlers, processes, files, or image data. The Go test uses os… Scope, Duplication And Docs The PR scope matches its description. The diff adds the recorded digest, the image-check script, workflow wiring, Dependabot guidance, output-flag migration, and the corresponding guard test; the desc…
Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems
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Explanation
The new script runs one external
docker image inspectprocess for every unique cached scanner image (.github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:39-41). Docker inspection accepts multiple image IDs, so a runner with many cached tags causes avoidable process startup and Docker-daemon calls. This loop is introduced by the pull request.
Full details: Safe File Parsing
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The new guard reads YAML and digest files without path or size protection. In
internal/guard/scannerimage_test.go:54and:91,os.ReadFilefollows symlinks; a workflow or digest symlink can make the test read outside the repository. The workflow read is also unbounded, then duplicated bystring,withoutYamlComments, andstrings.Splitat:95and:150, so a huge YAML file can cause excessive memory use. The shell script has the same issue at.github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:27:tr -d '[:space:]' < "$file"follows the optional path and reads it without a size limit. It also accepts internal whitespace after removing it, so malformed digest input is normalized instead of rejected.Resolution
Restrict every input to an existing regular file beneath the intended repository directory. Reject symlinks and other non-regular files before opening, and use a no-follow open where the platform supports it. Replace
os.ReadFileplus unbounded string conversion with a bounded reader such asio.LimitReader, and reject data beyond the limit before parsing. Parse workflow YAML withgopkg.in/yaml.v3into narrow structs instead of the ad hocwithoutYamlComments/strings.Splitparser. In the shell script, bound the digest read, reject extra or embedded whitespace rather than usingtr -d, and reject an unsafe optional path or remove that argument.
Full details: Clear User-Facing Text
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The new digest-format error identifies the problem but does not tell the user how to fix it. In
.github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:29, it says that$filedoes not hold one SHA-256 digest and that there is nothing to compare, but it gives no corrective action. The other mismatch and no-image messages do provide next steps.
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Review comments at @.github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.sh:
- Line 27: Update the `expected` digest parsing in the shell script to preserve
the file’s whitespace until validation, allowing whitespace only around one
complete SHA-256 digest and rejecting any internal whitespace before image
comparison. Add coverage for this shell parser using a digest with internal
whitespace; testing `isImageDigest` alone does not cover this validation.
Review comments at @internal/guard/scannerimage_test.go:
- Line 51: In the workflow-directory error handling, replace the skip with a
test failure so a missing or moved directory fails instead of passing without
inspection. Keep the existing error context in the failure message, and ensure a
collector or file walk that finds no scanner job is also reported as a failure
rather than skipped.
- Around line 62-64: Extend TestTheScannerImageIsCheckedBeforeItRuns to execute
osv_scanner_image.sh with a stub docker command and verify matching and
mismatching digests, a malformed digest file, and a missing image; retain the
existing workflow-order assertions.
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From the CodeRabbit review of #187, each remark checked against the code first. The script took every space out of the digest file before reading it, so a digest split in two was joined into one that passed, while the guard in Go refused the same file. It now matches the whole file at once: one digest, white space around it and none inside. Its message says what to write and where a run prints the value. Nothing ran the script, so one reduced to "exit 0" passed every test. TestTheScannerImageScriptRefusesEveryImageButTheRecordedOne runs it with a docker in front of the real one that answers from files, in ten cases - the recorded image, white space around it, another image behind the tag, two images with one of them another, no image, a digest split in two, two digests, a tag, no file, and a docker with no daemon - and asks each for its exit code and for the reason it prints. The stub's own image ids have to appear in the output, so the test knows it is not talking to the real docker. On Windows it wants Git's bash and says so when it finds another. The guard on the workflows fails rather than skips when their directory is gone, since the check would have gone with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The OSV actions are pinned by commit, but each runs the Docker image
ghcr.io/google/osv-scanner-actionby tag, and a tag can be pushed again. Pinning the action does not reach that layer.What changes
.github/osv-scanner-digestrecords the image digest (sha256:71ad04ab…, the one behindv2.6.0today)..github/scripts/osv_scanner_image.shcompares every image of that repository on the runner with it, and fails on another digest, on no image at all, and on a file of the wrong shape. The runner pulls the image while setting the job up, before the first step, so the check runs before anything runs the image.dependabot.ymlsays that an update of the action goes red until the new digest is written.TestTheScannerImageIsCheckedBeforeItRunsholds the step in every job that runs the scanner, ahead of the scan and of anygit checkout.--outputand--gh-annotationsgive way to--output-fileand--output-files.table:#stdoutis named because the reporter stops printing the list of findings once the annotations go to a terminal stream. Measured on v2.6.0: the JSON, the SARIF, the annotations and the list come out byte for byte as before.Checked
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