Fix outdated security-badge github-workflow.

Author: rburema

.github/workflows/scorecard.yml

@@ -22,51 +22,42 @@ jobs:
     name: Scorecard analysis
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
-      # Needed to upload the results to code-scanning dashboard.
+      # Needed for Code scanning upload
       security-events: write
-      # Needed to publish results and get a badge (see publish_results below).
+      # Needed for GitHub OIDC token if publish_results is true
       id-token: write
-      # Uncomment the permissions below if installing in a private repository.
-      # contents: read
-      # actions: read
 
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code"
-        uses: actions/checkout@93ea575cb5d8a053eaa0ac8fa3b40d7e05a33cc8 # v3.1.0
+        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
 
       - name: "Run analysis"
-        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@e38b1902ae4f44df626f11ba0734b14fb91f8f86 # v2.1.2
+        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@0864cf19026789058feabb7e87baa5f140aac736 # v2.3.1
         with:
           results_file: results.sarif
           results_format: sarif
-          # (Optional) "write" PAT token. Uncomment the `repo_token` line below if:
-          # - you want to enable the Branch-Protection check on a *public* repository, or
-          # - you are installing Scorecard on a *private* repository
-          # To create the PAT, follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#authentication-with-pat.
-          # repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_TOKEN }}
-
-          # Public repositories:
-          #   - Publish results to OpenSSF REST API for easy access by consumers
-          #   - Allows the repository to include the Scorecard badge.
-          #   - See https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results.
-          # For private repositories:
-          #   - `publish_results` will always be set to `false`, regardless
-          #     of the value entered here.
+          # Scorecard team runs a weekly scan of public GitHub repos,
+          # see https://github.com/ossf/scorecard#public-data.
+          # Setting `publish_results: true` helps us scale by leveraging your workflow to
+          # extract the results instead of relying on our own infrastructure to run scans.
+          # And it's free for you!
           publish_results: true
 
-      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
-      # format to the repository Actions tab.
+      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable
+      # uploads of run results in SARIF format to the repository Actions tab.
+      # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/advanced-guides/storing-workflow-data-as-artifacts
       - name: "Upload artifact"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@3cea5372237819ed00197afe530f5a7ea3e805c8 # v3.1.0
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
         with:
           name: SARIF file
           path: results.sarif
           retention-days: 5
 
-      # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
+      # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard (optional).
+      # Commenting out will disable upload of results to your repo's Code Scanning dashboard
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@17573ee1cc1b9d061760f3a006fc4aac4f944fd5 # v2.2.4
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@83a02f7883b12e0e4e1a146174f5e2292a01e601 # v2.16.4
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif