ci: scan the pinned requirements files with OSV-Scanner by donislawdev · Pull Request #255 · donislawdev/BeanNetworkTester

donislawdev · 2026-10-03T19:15:33Z

Summary

Adds OSV-Scanner to GitHub Actions: a new workflow, .github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml, built on Google's reusable workflows pinned to the v2.6.0 commit (a345acff).

scan (push to master, Mondays 06:30 UTC, by hand): every pinned requirements file against the OSV database. Results go to Security > Code scanning, and the run is red when anything is found.
scan-pr (pull requests): the base branch and the pull request are scanned a minute apart against the same database, so only a finding the pull request brings in fails it. It uploads no SARIF: a pull request from a fork runs with a read-only token, and the upload would turn every outside contribution red. Findings still show in the run log and as annotations.
result-paths (pull requests, scan-pr waits for it): the reusable pull-request workflow writes old-results.json and new-results.json in the checkout and checks the pull request out over them between the two scans. A pull request carrying either name, or a symlink from one to the other, would replace the baseline and pass whatever it added. This job refuses those names (and results.json, results.sarif) as files or symlinks. Raised in review on this pull request and widened from the symlink case to plain files.
Files are named, not discovered. Both jobs read requirements.txt, requirements-build.txt, requirements-lint.txt and requirements-scan.txt through --lockfile=requirements.txt:./.... requirements-dev.txt pins nothing, so there is no version to look up, and it is left out.

`--no-resolve`, and the correction behind it

The first commit said, from the scanner's documentation, that a requirements file is read as written. The first run on this pull request showed otherwise. OSV-Scanner v2.6.0 resolved the transitive dependencies of the unhashed requirements-scan.txt and chose versions far below what pip installs:

package	scanner's version	installed in CI
pip	9.0.3	26.2.1
python-multipart	0.0.9	0.0.32
anyio	4.9.0	4.15.1
idna	3.9.0	3.20

That came to 35 advisory ids against versions nothing here runs; api.osv.dev has none for the installed versions. Both scans exited 1, so the pull-request comparison cancelled them out and reported no new issues, while scan on master would have been red on every run. Both jobs now pass --no-resolve: the three hashed files still list their whole closure (pip refuses a hashed install with anything missing), and the scan set is read as written, semgrep and pip-audit. The layer under them stays with Scorecard's Vulnerabilities check.

Not covered, and residual risks

The packages under the unhashed scan set (see above): Scorecard's.
The scanner runs from an image the action names by tag, and a job that calls a reusable workflow cannot set timeout-minutes. Both are written in the workflow.
The checks are not added to the branch ruleset's required checks.

Guard

test_osv_scanner_reads_every_pinned_requirements_file fails when a requirements file that pins a version is missing from either job, when a job names a file that does not exist, when scan-pr uploads SARIF, when either job loses --no-resolve, and when scan-pr stops waiting for result-paths. Five entries in the mutation registry, five caught.

Docs

SECURITY.md: the OSV-Scanner upload joins the list of write scopes.
README.md: a paragraph on how dependencies are checked.
CHANGELOG.md: a Docs entry under [Unreleased]; it says findings on the main branch reach the Security tab and a pull request that brings in a new one fails its check.

Test plan

First run of scan-pr on this pull request: both scans read 24 packages (2 + 7 + 13 + 2), exit 1 on both sides from the resolved scan set, reporter "No issues found". The cause above was read from the uploaded JSON results and compared with the versions CI installs.
tools/mutate.py "osv-scanner": 5 caught, every file restored byte for byte.
The result-paths script, cut from the workflow file and run against a clean tree, a planted old-results.json and a dangling new-results.json symlink: exit 0, 1, 1.
test_version_and_release.py, test_mutation_registry.py, test_repo_conventions.py, test_readme_guards.py, test_code_hygiene.py, test_code_shape.py: 99 passed. ruff is clean on the edited tests.
scan-pr on this push: both scans exit 0 with --no-resolve, still 24 packages.
scan runs once this is on master.
Full suite: runs here in CI (Linux and Windows). It was not run locally.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added automated checks for known vulnerabilities in pinned dependencies, running weekly and when changes are made.
- Pull requests are checked for newly introduced vulnerabilities, while scan findings are reported in the repository’s Security tab.
Documentation
- Updated the README and changelog with details about dependency checks and where to find scan results.

A new workflow, osv-scanner.yml, runs Google's reusable OSV-Scanner workflows pinned to the v2.6.0 commit. Two jobs: - scan (push to master, weekly, by hand): every pinned requirements file against the OSV database, results in Security > Code scanning, red when anything is found; - scan-pr (pull requests): the base branch and the pull request are scanned a minute apart, so only a NEW finding fails it. It uploads no SARIF, because a pull request from a fork runs with a read-only token and the upload would fail every outside contribution. Both read four files named one by one (requirements, -build, -lint, -scan) instead of discovering them. requirements-dev.txt pins nothing, so it is left out. This covers the lint and scan sets, which no other job audits, and adds the OSV database beside pip-audit, dependency review and Scorecard. It does not resolve transitive dependencies of a requirements file (Maven only in v2.6.0), so the packages under the unhashed scan set stay Scorecard's to report. test_osv_scanner_reads_every_pinned_requirements_file fails when a requirements file that pins a version is missing from either job, when a job names a file that does not exist, and when scan-pr starts uploading SARIF. Three mutations, three caught. SECURITY.md lists the new upload among the write scopes, and the README says how dependencies are checked. The check is not required by the branch ruleset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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The pull request adds OSV-Scanner workflows for pinned requirements, tests their file coverage and pull-request SARIF setting, and updates dependency-check documentation.

Changes

Dependency vulnerability scanning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure OSV-Scanner runs `.github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml`	Adds push, pull-request, weekly, and manual triggers. Non-pull-request and pull-request jobs scan the same four requirements files and fail when vulnerabilities are found. The pull-request job disables SARIF uploads.
Verify and document scan coverage `tests/test_version_and_release.py`, `tests/test_mutation_registry.py`, `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Adds checks for pinned requirements coverage and pull-request SARIF settings, with mutation records for those checks. Updates documentation about dependency checks and OSV-Scanner results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant scan
  participant scan-pr
  participant OSVScanner
  participant SecurityTab
  GitHubActions->>scan: Run for push, schedule, or manual dispatch
  scan->>OSVScanner: Scan pinned requirements
  OSVScanner-->>scan: Return vulnerability findings
  scan->>SecurityTab: Upload scan results
  GitHubActions->>scan-pr: Run for pull request
  scan-pr->>OSVScanner: Scan pinned requirements
  OSVScanner-->>scan-pr: Return vulnerability findings
  scan-pr-->>GitHubActions: Fail when vulnerabilities are found

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ce14a

The new OSV pull-request check might be bypassable by a crafted pull request, and the check is advisory rather than required. The changelog also overstates when scans run and where pull-request findings appear. Neither blocks merge, but both are worth addressing.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ce14a

A fork contributor can manipulate the new scanner’s comparison baseline, undermining its promise to identify newly introduced vulnerabilities. Exposure is principally the repository’s dependency-check results: fork tokens are read-only, PR code-scanning publication is disabled, and existing dependency checks remain separate.

Retained concerns

High · security · observed: The new PR scan exposes an upstream baseline-integrity flaw: a fork-controlled output-path symlink can replace the trusted baseline with the current scan, invalidating the differential security check.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The demonstrated attack scope is a fork contributor’s scan run in this repository: comparison inputs and resulting checks, annotations, and artifacts can be falsified. The evidence does not establish repository-content write authority, release modification, or production-service compromise. Other documented dependency checks remain separate, although OSV adds coverage for previously unaudited lint and scan sets.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

observed — The retained security finding identifies an externally reachable baseline-overwrite path. After the trusted baseline scan, a PR can introduce new-results.json as a symlink to old-results.json. The subsequent scanner output operation follows that path and replaces the baseline with current results, destroying the independence required for a trustworthy vulnerability diff.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Commit-pinned workflow code, read-only fork tokens, and disabled PR code-scanning upload constrain executable selection and privileged publication. They do not protect the trusted baseline from filesystem changes introduced by the later untrusted checkout.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — The callee tolerates scanner nonzero exits and rejects failed scans only when their result files are empty or missing. This is useful failure containment, but it checks neither trusted completion provenance nor distinct baseline and head storage. Repetition and per-ref cancellation do not repair that within-run invariant.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Keep baseline and head results in separate trusted locations outside the checked-out repository, bind scans to immutable commit identities, reject output-path aliases, and require trusted completion evidence before comparison. Include adversarial checkout, partial-failure, and rerun cases in the integrity checks.
proposed — Consider a digest-pinned scanner and reporter image to make executable selection immutable, especially for non-PR jobs holding security-event publication authority.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 13 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Safe File Parsing	⚠️ Warning	The new test can follow a requirements-file symlink outside the repository. It uses `glob.glob(os.path.join(ROOT, "requirements*.txt"))` at line 1339 and then calls `open(requirements)` at line 1340 w…	Before opening each candidate, reject symlinks or resolve the path and verify it remains under the resolved `ROOT` (for example, with `Path.resolve(strict=True)` and `Path.is_relative_to(ROOT.resolve())`). Apply the same check to `.github/w…

✅ Passed checks (13 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The only behavior change is a new GitHub Actions workflow, which the check excludes as CI/configuration. The PR also adds OSV workflow tests and mutation cases. No tests are deleted, skipped, or weake…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff adds no private AI-agent files or .env files. The added workflow, documentation, and tests contain no hardcoded credentials, personal email addresses, private URLs, local absolute pa…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The pull request changes a GitHub Actions workflow, Markdown documentation, and Python tests. It does not add or change XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF code-behind, or other GUI code. The UI-styling c…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	The PR adds no clear performance problem. OSV-Scanner checks four small requirements files on pushes to master, pull requests, weekly schedules, and manual runs. The PR workflow compares the base and …
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	The changed files add a GitHub Actions workflow and update documentation and tests. The diff adds no desktop application code and does not load local assets, save settings or data, parse numbers or da…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The PR adds a GitHub Actions workflow that scans pinned requirements files and updates documentation and tests. The changed files do not modify network filters or rules, proxies, firewalls, system tim…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR adds documentation and workflow descriptions, but no user-facing buttons, tooltips, error messages, or confirmation prompts. The README, changelog, and workflow use consistent names for OSV-Sca…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. The pull request changes a GitHub Actions workflow, documentation, and tests; it does not change desktop application code. The workflow runs bounded OSV scans on push,…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR stays within the stated OSV-Scanner feature. Its workflow and test changes are described in the PR description, and the README, CHANGELOG, and SECURITY.md document the new checks and reporting …
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states that the change adds OSV-Scanner checks for pinned requirements files.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

Explanation

The new test can follow a requirements-file symlink outside the repository. It uses glob.glob(os.path.join(ROOT, "requirements*.txt")) at line 1339 and then calls open(requirements) at line 1340 without checking the resolved path. A pull request can add a matching symlink to an external file, so the test reads outside its intended folder. The workflow-file read also uses open() without a symlink check. The reviewed files are regular files now, but the added test accepts future matching symlinks.

Resolution

Before opening each candidate, reject symlinks or resolve the path and verify it remains under the resolved ROOT (for example, with Path.resolve(strict=True) and Path.is_relative_to(ROOT.resolve())). Apply the same check to .github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml; use a no-follow open such as os.open(..., O_NOFOLLOW) where supported.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml:
- Line 87: Update the OSV scanner workflow that invokes
osv-scanner-reusable-pr.yml so PR-controlled files cannot redirect scan output
into the baseline result. Store both result files in isolated directories
outside the checkout, or reject symlinked result paths before scanning; preserve
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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Around line 11-12: Update the changelog scan description to say scans run on
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