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CI/CD security hardening (security/202610_updates)

Review-driven hardening of GitHub Actions CI and Dependabot. Only .github/ is touched.

Changes

Dependabot — .github/dependabot.yml (new)

  • Added Dependabot covering npm, github-actions, and docker, weekly.
  • Each ecosystem uses cooldown: { default-days: 7 } — only versions public for ≥7 days are proposed.

Workflows

  • ci.yml — updated GitHub Actions to latest (actions/checkout@v7, actions/setup-node@v7, actions/cache@v6). (Already had a minimal permissions: block — unchanged.)
  • docker.yml — added top-level permissions: contents: read; updated actions/* and docker/* to latest (incl. actions/download-artifact@v8, docker/build-push-action@v7).
  • ghcr_cleanup.yml — added top-level permissions: contents: read; pinned the third-party action dataaxiom/ghcr-cleanup-action (holds a package-delete-capable PAT) to a full commit SHA (d52806a0…, v1.2.2); updated docker/login-action@v4.

Workflow — n8n.yml (security hardening)

  • Reworked the "Trigger N8N Security Scan" workflow (previously flagged as unsafe):
    • Payload is now built with jq from env: vars — closes the shell/JSON injection in the old ${{ … }}-into-heredoc pattern.
    • Trigger stays comment-based (/run-security-scan on a PR) but is now gated to trusted commenters (author_association ∈ OWNER/MEMBER/COLLABORATOR).
    • Job runs with permissions: {} (no GITHUB_TOKEN scope).
    • The webhook call now sends an Authorization: Bearer header.
  • Action required: create a repo secret N8N_BEARER_TOKEN; without it the step sends an empty bearer.

Checkout credential hardening — persist-credentials: false

  • actions/checkout writes the job's GITHUB_TOKEN into .git/config (as an http.extraheader) by default, where any later step can read it — including npm ci/npm install, whose dependency install scripts run arbitrary code. Scoping NODE_AUTH_TOKEN to the publish steps does not cover this separate Git credential.
  • Added persist-credentials: false to all 5 actions/checkout step(s) in this repo. None of these jobs perform authenticated Git operations after checkout, so nothing else is needed.
  • Note: cooldowns/persist-credentials only affect what's written to disk; the checkout itself still authenticates normally.

Review / testing notes

  • download-artifact→v8 changed behavior (fails on digest mismatch, no auto-decompress) — the docker digest-merge flow uses it; validate a docker build+merge run.
  • Registry credentials remain step-scoped and gated on secret presence; fork PRs still skip login/push.
  • All new action majors run on Node 24; runners are GitHub-hosted, so no runner change is needed.

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Summary

  • Chores
    • Added weekly dependency checks for npm, GitHub Actions, and Docker, with a seven-day cooldown for version updates.
    • Updated the automation used for builds, tests, container publishing, and registry cleanup.
    • Restricted workflow permissions and limited pull-request security scans to contributors with approved repository roles. The scan command now requires valid JSON for non-empty overrides.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds weekly Dependabot schedules and updates actions in the CI, Docker publishing, and GHCR cleanup workflows. It also changes the security-scan workflow’s comment gate, payload construction, permissions, and webhook request.

Changes

Dependency and CI automation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependabot update schedules
.github/dependabot.yml
Dependabot checks npm, GitHub Actions, and Docker weekly in the Europe/Berlin timezone, with a seven-day default cooldown.
CI action version updates
.github/workflows/ci.yml
The lint, dockertest, and build jobs use newer checkout actions. The lint and build jobs also update setup-node and cache actions. Node versions and cache settings remain unchanged.

Container publishing and cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multi-architecture image builds
.github/workflows/docker.yml
The amd64 and arm64 jobs update checkout, QEMU, Buildx, login, metadata, build, and artifact upload actions. The workflow sets contents: read permissions.
Image manifest merge
.github/workflows/docker.yml
The merge job updates artifact download, Buildx, metadata, and registry login actions.
GHCR cleanup workflow
.github/workflows/ghcr_cleanup.yml
The workflow sets contents: read permissions, updates the login action, and pins the cleanup action to a commit.

Pull request security-scan workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Comment trigger and permissions
.github/workflows/n8n.yml
The workflow sets empty permissions and runs only for /run-security-scan comments from authors associated as OWNER, MEMBER, or COLLABORATOR.
Payload construction and webhook request
.github/workflows/n8n.yml
The workflow passes event values through environment variables, builds the JSON payload with jq, and sends it with a bearer token using curl -fsS.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub
  participant SecurityScanWorkflow
  participant n8nWebhook
  GitHub->>SecurityScanWorkflow: Pull request comment with /run-security-scan
  SecurityScanWorkflow->>SecurityScanWorkflow: Check author association and construct JSON payload
  SecurityScanWorkflow->>n8nWebhook: Send payload with bearer token
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a0aa9

This change hardens CI and Dependabot configuration. No concrete defect was found that should block merging. Owners should create the N8N_BEARER_TOKEN secret and confirm that the Docker publish flow succeeds after the action upgrades.

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🔇 Additional comments (6)
.github/workflows/ghcr_cleanup.yml (1)

10-11: LGTM!

Also applies to: 22-22, 29-29

.github/workflows/docker.yml (1)

17-18: LGTM!

Also applies to: 35-35, 37-37, 43-43, 52-52, 61-61, 68-68, 84-84, 96-96, 116-116, 137-137, 139-139, 145-145, 154-154, 163-163, 170-170, 186-186, 198-198, 218-218, 233-233, 239-239, 242-242, 261-261, 270-270

.github/workflows/n8n.yml (1)

39-39: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

The PR and PR_ISSUE values can be null for this event. However, the repository contains no n8n consumer or payload contract that shows either field selects the scan target. The claimed scan failure and proposed correction therefore remain conditional on an unobserved external implementation.

.github/dependabot.yml (1)

1-26: LGTM!

.github/workflows/ci.yml (1)

21-21: 🔒 Security & Privacy

Do not change the cache configuration for this concern.

Pull-request cache entries are scoped to the pull-request merge ref. Trusted pushes to main or tags cannot restore those entries. The explicit actions/cache@v6 steps do not create the claimed cross-trust cache path.

package.json has no packageManager or devEngines field, so setup-node@v7 does not enable automatic npm caching here. The proposed package-manager-cache: false change is unnecessary.

.github/workflows/n8n.yml-100-100 (1)

100-100: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Keep the bearer token out of curl arguments.

This -H value places N8N_BEARER_TOKEN in curl's process arguments, where another process with access to the runner's process list can read it. Write the header to a temporary file with mode 0600, pass it with -H @file, and remove the file on exit. curl supports headers from a file. (curl.se)

Based on learnings, secret headers should not be embedded in curl command-line arguments.

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