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GitHub Workflows security hardening #2274

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This PR adds explicit permissions section to workflows. This is a security best practice because by default workflows run with extended set of permissions (except from on: pull_request from external forks). By specifying any permission explicitly all others are set to none. By using the principle of least privilege the damage a compromised workflow can do (because of an injection or compromised third party tool or action) is restricted.
It is recommended to have most strict permissions on the top level and grant write permissions on job level case by case.

Signed-off-by: Alex <aleksandrosansan@gmail.com>
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Thanks, I agree that this makes sense.

@eamonnmcmanus eamonnmcmanus merged commit c33e03b into google:master Dec 8, 2022
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Should this for completeness also be applied to the other workflows? Though I guess they might need a few more permissions, they upload artifacts and CodeQL analysis creates security events.

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The other workflows run on pull_request that has read permissions only. The codeql workflow already has permissions.

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Ah you are right, thanks for the explanation!

tibor-universe pushed a commit to getuniverse/gson that referenced this pull request Jan 20, 2023
Signed-off-by: Alex <aleksandrosansan@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex <aleksandrosansan@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit c33e03b)
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