Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 1: Workflow does not contain permissions - #5
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…n permissions Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Nurzhan Muratkhan <nurzhanmuratkhan@gmail.com>
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Potential fix for https://github.com/kreozalabs/tooling/security/code-scanning/1
In general, to fix this issue you should explicitly define a
permissionsblock either at the workflow root (affecting all jobs) or within each job, limiting theGITHUB_TOKENto the minimal scopes required. For a validation/linting workflow that only checks out code and runs local commands,contents: readis typically sufficient.For this specific workflow in
.github/workflows/validate.yml, the single best fix without changing functionality is to add a job-levelpermissionsblock under thevalidatejob (or equivalently a root-level block). Since the only GitHub interaction isactions/checkout, the job only needs read access to repository contents. You should therefore add:indented so it is a property of the
validatejob, directly belowruns-on: ubuntu-latest. No imports or additional methods are needed; this is purely a configuration change in the workflow YAML.Concretely:
.github/workflows/validate.yml.validatejob definition (lines 9–12), insert apermissionsblock immediately after line 11 (runs-on: ubuntu-latest), indented two spaces so it aligns withruns-on.contents: readwithin that block.Suggested fixes powered by Copilot Autofix. Review carefully before merging.