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Problem

Repository-owned workflow validation must fail closed against mutable GitHub Actions execution dependencies and privilege escalation while treating semantically equivalent YAML forms identically.

Protected authority is develop@eb9757f8649aaad026a9865508d9aad50c1a7a4f. This PR changes only tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py; it does not change application/domain source, repository workflows, or weaken a merge gate.

Current repair lineage

The branch ordinary-forward repaired the following verified parser/control gaps:

  • 761dea6a: full 40-character commit SHA for repository actions; initial local/Docker exemptions.
  • 45af7574: immutable repository subpaths/reusable workflows.
  • 6bc95b2b: list-form - uses:.
  • 2a18f3ab: digest pinning for job/service image: declarations.
  • c459ceb2 plus b510e5ea / 597a10b4 / 1446df3f / 2e0e2436: least-privilege workflow/job permissions, scalar job-container coverage, and privileged-trigger mapping/scalar/flow syntax.
  • c5fe34cd1ae4dd3a8a6b66cafc27ef82af6a7b38: one comment-aware mapping-entry parser for bare, single-quoted and double-quoted security keys, covering quoted uses, image/container, permissions and privileged triggers.
  • a50e591d6b3fd690e830399b7920c383aaa6975e (current head): remove the remaining docker://... exemption. Every non-local uses: reference is inventoried. Repository actions/reusable workflows require a full commit SHA; Docker actions require an authoritative sha256 image digest. Mutable docker://alpine:3.20 is rejected, while both docker://alpine@sha256:<digest> and docker://alpine:3.20@sha256:<digest> are accepted. Bare/quoted/list-form Docker regressions preserve the same mapping parser, and local ./... actions remain the only remote-pinning exemption.

Issue #301 is the durable acceptance owner.

Exact-head authority

  • protected base: develop@eb9757f8649aaad026a9865508d9aad50c1a7a4f
  • exact head: a50e591d6b3fd690e830399b7920c383aaa6975e
  • GitHub state: open · Draft · mechanically mergeable
  • diff remains one regression-contract file; no workflow/domain/application file changed
  • Foundation 34568594393: SUCCESS
  • SAST 34568594455: SUCCESS
  • Security 34568594387: SUCCESS
  • CodeQL 34568594424: FAILURE in the central producer/consumer settlement lane, not a demonstrated test(ci): pin every remote GitHub Action to an immutable commit SHA #300 source-analysis finding. Python consumer 103166541235 failed enforcement at 2026-09-11T06:18:35Z and completed at 06:18:37Z; Actions consumer 103166541285 failed enforcement at 06:18:36Z and completed at 06:18:38Z. This run's authoritative dispatch 103168032202 did not start until 06:28:45Z and then completed SUCCESS at 06:28:50Z. Fresh exact canary is handed to canonical ContextualWisdomLab/.github#2040 in comment 5630778715.
  • fresh formal reviews contain no qualifying current-head APPROVED; bot/status success is supplemental and is not promoted to protected approval evidence.

The initial post-publication queue state was handed to canonical queue-health owner ContextualWisdomLab/.github#712 in comment 5630255504; Foundation subsequently acquired a runner and completed GREEN. No no-op rerun, sleep/poll workaround, synthetic status, or predecessor verdict is used for the later CodeQL ordering failure.

Acceptance

Before protected integration the contract must continue to prove all of the following on one exact head:

  • repository actions and reusable-workflow subpaths accept only full 40-character commit SHAs;
  • Docker uses: actions accept only image references carrying authoritative sha256 digests, with an optional tag before the digest;
  • generic image: and scalar/object container: references remain digest-pinned;
  • mutable branch/tag/action/image/Docker refs and unresolved expressions fail closed with file:line evidence;
  • bare, quoted and list-form YAML keys receive equivalent security classification;
  • workflow/job permissions remain contents: read only and privileged pull_request_target / workflow_run triggers remain rejected;
  • local ./... actions remain local-source references rather than remote dependency pins;
  • all applicable exact-head repository/central checks and review governance must be admissible before normal merge.

Keep Draft while required evidence or independent governance is unsatisfied. No self/model approval, routine administrator bypass, gate weakening, no-op retrigger, predecessor-evidence transfer, force-push, destructive rebase, or simple Close is authorized.

Nothing in the repository currently enforces that .github/workflows uses:
references resolve to immutable commits. The existing runner-image contract
only covers runs-on, so a future @v4 or @main reference would pass CI while
silently reintroducing mutable supply-chain input.

Extend the unowned, CI-wired tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py with a
fail-closed action-pinning contract that requires a full 40-character commit
SHA, exempts local (./) and Docker (docker://) references, and strips only
YAML comments so an inline version tag cannot mask the resolved ref.

Verified: mutation of foundation-ci.yml to actions/checkout@v7 fails the new
test; restored tree passes 9/9 and npm run validate exits 0.
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GitHub Actions 워크플로에서 액션, 이미지, 권한 선언을 추출하는 헬퍼를 추가했습니다. 원격 액션과 컨테이너 이미지를 고정된 참조로 제한하고, 최소 권한 조건과 권한 있는 트리거를 검증하는 계약 테스트를 추가했습니다.

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워크플로 선언 파서
tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py
uses:, image:, permissions 선언을 추출하는 패턴과 헬퍼를 추가했습니다. 주석, 따옴표, 목록 항목을 처리하고 로컬 복합 액션과 Docker 참조를 제외합니다.
액션 및 이미지 고정 검증
tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py
원격 액션이 40자 커밋 SHA를 사용하고 컨테이너 및 서비스 이미지가 sha256 다이제스트를 사용하는지 검증합니다. 변경 가능한 태그와 표현식 참조에 대한 파서 테스트를 추가했습니다.
최소 권한 검증
tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py
contents: read만 허용하고 pull_request_target, workflow_run, write-all 선언을 거부합니다. 권한 파서의 fail-closed 동작을 검증합니다.

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Valid workflow syntax can bypass the new trigger, image-pinning, and least-privilege checks, so these gaps should be fixed before merge.

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Verified repair finding against exact 761dea6ae2939853febb8a605575bb93ef1d8156: _PINNED_ACTION_PATTERN = r"^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+@[0-9a-f]{40}$" only accepts owner/repo@sha. That rejects a correctly immutable remote reusable workflow reference such as ContextualWisdomLab/.github/.github/workflows/opencode-review.yml@<40-char-sha>.

That shape is not hypothetical for Orgmetra: the architecture requires central .github reusable workflows with thin caller exact-SHA integration. A security guard that rejects the intended exact-SHA reusable-workflow form would make that migration impossible or tempt a later exemption.

Please keep the fail-closed SHA invariant but validate both GitHub uses: forms:

  • action: owner/repo[/subpath]@<40-char-sha>
  • reusable workflow: owner/repo/.github/workflows/<file>@<40-char-sha>

Local ./... remains outside remote-ref pinning. If Docker uses: remains exempt here, keep that exemption explicit as a separate supply-chain policy decision rather than treating a mutable Docker tag as equivalent to an immutable Git reference.

Acceptance: add regression(s) proving an exact-SHA central reusable-workflow reference passes while the same path at @main/tag fails. Do not weaken the exact 40-char SHA requirement.

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In `@tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py`:
- Line 18: Update _USES_PATTERN to also match YAML list entries prefixed with
“-”, while preserving support for standalone uses: lines and existing whitespace
handling. Add a regression test covering “- uses: actions/checkout@v4” so
mutable refs in list form are subject to SHA validation.
- Line 20: Update _PINNED_ACTION_PATTERN to allow optional repository subpath
segments between the repository name and the @ separator while still requiring a
40-character hexadecimal SHA. Add coverage for valid remote action and reusable
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The first pinning regex matched only owner/repo@sha, which would have
false-positively rejected a commit-pinned reusable workflow or subdirectory
action such as org/repo/.github/workflows/ci.yml@<40-hex>. Widen the pattern
to allow additional path segments and extend the sensitivity test with
pinned reusable-workflow, pinned subdirectory, and mutable reusable-workflow
cases so the contract distinguishes them.

Tests: 9/9 OK; npm run validate exit 0.
The action-pinning contract covered `uses:` refs but nothing generic
enforced that `image:` references (job containers and service containers)
resolve an immutable digest; only the two named recovery postgres images
were asserted by other tests, so a fresh unpinned `image: postgres:16`
would have passed. Add _image_declarations plus a digest contract and a
sensitivity test that rejects plain tags and expressions while accepting
a pinned digest (quoted or with a trailing comment).

Tests: 11/11 OK; mutation to postgres:17.6-alpine fails the new contract;
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OpenCode reviewed the current-head product diff. Coverage is a separate gate.

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  • tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py — regression suite

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  Evidence --> S1["Test: test_github_actions_runner_image.py"]
  S1 --> I1["regression suite"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Test: test_github_actions_runner_image.py"]
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No source-backed product finding is synthesized from the coverage gate. A coverage miss belongs in the status comment.

  • Head SHA: 2a18f3abb188fe7bab29f30bcaa575952958b9e0
  • Workflow run: 34557984647
  • Workflow attempt: 1
  • Coverage gate: failure

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  Evidence --> S1["Test: test_github_actions_runner_image.py"]
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Coverage evidence did not pass, so approval is blocked. The formal pull-request review is the source-backed diff review, not this status comment.

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In `@tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py`:
- Line 26: Update _PRIVILEGED_TRIGGER_PATTERN and its validation to detect
privileged triggers in mapping, scalar shorthand (on: pull_request_target), and
flow-sequence (on: [push, pull_request_target]) forms; add regression tests
covering each supported syntax and rejecting the privileged events.
- Line 19: Update _image_declarations and its parsing pattern to also collect
scalar container: values such as registry.example/app:latest, while preserving
existing image: handling; add a regression test covering this GitHub Actions
job-container form and ensuring it is pinned to a digest.
- Around line 321-322: Update _declared_permissions to inspect each job-level
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A job-level permissions: block replaces (not merges) the workflow
default, so contents: read at the workflow level plus contents: write on
one job still grants write. The top-level-only parser ignored indented
blocks and would have missed that escalation. Scan every permissions
block and keep the workflow-level check for the missing-block case.
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Current-head 추가 감사에서 아직 하나의 parser-differential bypass가 남아 있습니다. tests/test_github_actions_runner_image.py의 보안 계약은 YAML을 정규식으로 읽으면서 제어 키가 bare scalar라고 가정합니다. 하지만 GitHub Actions workflow는 YAML이고 YAML 1.2는 quoted implicit mapping key를 허용합니다. 따라서 현재 구현에서는 예를 들어 "uses": actions/checkout@v4, - 'uses': actions/checkout@v4, "image": postgres:latest, job-level "permissions": / "contents": write, "on": pull_request_target, 또는 mapping-form "on":\n 'pull_request_target':가 각각 _USES_PATTERN, _IMAGE_PATTERN, _PERMISSIONS_BLOCK_PATTERN, _ON_PATTERN, _PRIVILEGED_TRIGGER_KEY_PATTERN을 우회할 수 있습니다. 로컬 재현에서도 현 regex는 이 quoted-key 형태들을 모두 match하지 않습니다.

이 finding은 개별 regex에 quote 하나씩 더 붙이는 방식보다 한 번의 root repair가 적합합니다. comment-aware line에서 indentation을 보존한 채 bare/single-quoted/double-quoted mapping key를 하나의 helper로 정규화하고, uses/image/container/permissions/permission scope/on/privileged event 검사가 모두 그 helper를 소비하게 해 주세요. List-form - "uses": ...도 같은 parser를 타야 합니다. 기존 full-40-SHA, image digest, contents: read only, privileged-trigger rejection semantics는 그대로 유지해야 합니다.

Regression에는 최소한 quoted-key mutable uses, quoted image/scalar container, safe top-level permissions + quoted job-level write override, quoted on scalar와 quoted mapping event를 넣어 parser equivalence를 고정하는 편이 좋습니다. GitHub 공식 문서는 workflow file이 YAML syntax를 사용한다고 명시하고, YAML 1.2 spec은 quoted implicit mapping keys를 명시적으로 허용합니다. 이 PR은 방금도 ordinary-forward commit이 연속해서 들어온 active writer lane이므로 여기서는 concurrent push하지 않고 finding/acceptance만 handoff합니다. Exact head 2e0e24363d12b5f45897256aa156cc1fdbe91bfb 기준이며 predecessor evidence transfer나 gate weakening을 요구하지 않습니다.

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Verified current-head repair finding follow-up: #300 has been returned to Draft at exact 2e0e24363d12b5f45897256aa156cc1fdbe91bfb without changing head/base. The reason is the quoted-YAML-key parser differential recorded in review 5174983380: GitHub/YAML accepts semantically equivalent quoted mapping keys, while the current line regexes inventory only bare security-control keys. Until the canonical writer repairs that root parser boundary and adds quoted-key regressions, Ready would be premature.

Repository-owned checks on this exact head are otherwise Foundation 34561673828 SUCCESS, SAST 34561673747 SUCCESS, Security 34561673857 SUCCESS. CodeQL 34561673772 is terminal FAILURE in the known central settlement lane and is not recast as a test-contract source failure. No self-approval, bypass, no-op retrigger, force push, or concurrent source push was used.

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Fresh current-head audit on c5fe34cd1ae4dd3a8a6b66cafc27ef82af6a7b38 found one remaining supply-chain bypass. _action_declarations() still drops every docker://... value before immutable-reference validation, while _image_declarations() only inventories image: / scalar container:. The existing regression even includes uses: docker://alpine:3.20 and intentionally omits it from declarations. Therefore a mutable Docker container action is not covered by either the action-SHA contract or the image-digest contract.

Treat this as a repair finding, not a compatibility exemption. Preserve local ./... exemption, but require Docker uses: references to carry an authoritative sha256 digest (e.g. docker://alpine@sha256:<64-hex> or tag+digest) and add mutable-vs-digest regressions across the same bare/quoted/list-form mapping parser. Issue #301 acceptance has been updated to make this durable. Do not weaken the current full-SHA repository-action/reusable-workflow, permissions, image/container, or privileged-trigger contracts.

I am not pushing concurrently into this branch because this head was updated minutes ago by the active owner lane; adopt/adapt this finding ordinary-forward on the current head and re-establish exact-head evidence.

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