[StepSecurity] Apply security best practices

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Summary

This pull request is created by StepSecurity App at the request of @varunsh-coder. Please merge the Pull Request to incorporate the requested changes. Please tag @varunsh-coder on your message if you have any questions related to the PR. You can also engage with the StepSecurity team by tagging @step-security-bot.

Security Fixes

Least Privileged GitHub Actions Token Permissions

The GITHUB_TOKEN is an automatically generated secret to make authenticated calls to the GitHub API. GitHub recommends setting minimum token permissions for the GITHUB_TOKEN.

• GitHub Security Guide
• The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide

Pinned Dependencies

GitHub Action tags and Docker tags are mutatble. This poses a security risk. GitHub's Security Hardening guide recommends pinning actions to full length commit.

• GitHub Security Guide
• The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide

Harden Runner

Harden-Runner is an open-source security agent for the GitHub-hosted runner to prevent software supply chain attacks. It prevents exfiltration of credentials, detects tampering of source code during build, and enables running jobs without sudo access.

Harden runner usage

You can find link to view insights and policy recommendation in the build log

Please refer to documentation to find more details.

Keeping your actions up to date with Dependabot

With Dependabot version updates, when Dependabot identifies an outdated dependency, it raises a pull request to update the manifest to the latest version of the dependency. This is recommended by GitHub as well as The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).

• GitHub Security Guide
• The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide

Detect Vulnerabilities with SAST Workflow

Static Code Analysis (also known as Source Code Analysis) is usually performed as part of a Code Review (also known as clear-box testing) and is carried out at the Implementation phase of a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Static Code Analysis commonly refers to the running of Static Code Analysis tools that attempt to highlight possible vulnerabilities within ‘static’ (non-running) source code by using techniques such as Taint Analysis and Data Flow Analysis.

• The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Security Guide
• OWASP Static Code Analysis
• Github Guide For Code Scanning

Add Dependency Review Workflow

The Dependency Review Workflow enforces dependency reviews on your pull requests. The action scans for vulnerable versions of dependencies introduced by package version changes in pull requests, and warns you about the associated security vulnerabilities. This gives you better visibility of what's changing in a pull request, and helps prevent vulnerabilities being added to your repository.

• Github Guide about Dependency Review
• Github Guide for Configuring Dependency Review Action

Add OpenSSF Scorecard Workflow

OpenSSF Scorecard is an automated tool that assesses a number of important heuristics ("checks") associated with software security and assigns each check a score of 0-10. You can use these scores to understand specific areas to improve in order to strengthen the security posture of your project.

Scorecard workflow also allows maintainers to display a Scorecard badge on their repository to show off their hard work.

• The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Scorecard

Feedback

For bug reports, feature requests, and general feedback; please create an issue in step-security/secure-repo or contact us via our website.

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