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108 changes: 106 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/ci.yml
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Expand Up @@ -820,13 +820,89 @@ jobs:
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success'
run: bash scripts/test-run-gosec.sh

# gosec result cache. A full scan re-parses and type-checks every package
# and dependency from source (about 300s), even when no Go input changed,
# as on a frontend-only PR. gosec's verdict depends only on the inputs
# hashed below, so a run whose inputs exactly match an earlier clean scan
# would reach the same verdict. That run reuses the clean scan's merged
# SARIF instead.
- name: Compute gosec cache keys
id: gosec_key
# An optimisation only: if this step breaks, the restores and saves
# below are skipped and gosec scans exactly as it would uncached.
continue-on-error: true
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success'
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# Pinned gosec, effective Go version and binary cache dir, read from
# scripts/run-gosec.sh so the pin lives in one place.
versions=$(scripts/run-gosec.sh --print-versions)
printf '%s\n' "$versions" | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
gosec_version=$(printf '%s\n' "$versions" | sed -n 's/^gosec_version=//p')
go_version=$(printf '%s\n' "$versions" | sed -n 's/^go_version=//p')
# Every input to gosec's verdict: all Go sources (both scanned modules
# and anything else on disk, testdata included), every go.mod/go.sum
# (go.sum pins dependency content), go.work/go.work.sum, the wrapper
# (pin, rule set, exclude dirs) and this workflow (the SARIF merge
# below). sha256sum lines carry the path as well as the content, so a
# moved or renamed file changes the key; hashFiles() would not.
# Including too much only costs a miss.
inputs_hash=$(
{
find . -path ./.git -prune -o -type f \( -name '*.go' -o -name go.mod \
-o -name go.sum -o -name go.work -o -name go.work.sum \) -print0
printf '%s\0' scripts/run-gosec.sh .github/workflows/ci.yml
} | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -0 sha256sum | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1
)
echo "results_key=gosec-sarif-${RUNNER_OS}-${RUNNER_ARCH}-${gosec_version}-${go_version}-${inputs_hash}" | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "bin_key=gosec-bin-${RUNNER_OS}-${RUNNER_ARCH}-${gosec_version}-${go_version}" | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

- name: Restore gosec results
id: gosec_results
# Exact key only (no restore-keys): a result from different inputs is
# never reused. A miss or a cache service error leaves no file, and the
# scan below runs as usual.
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_key.outcome == 'success'
uses: actions/cache/restore@0057852bfaa89a56745cba8c7296529d2fc39830 # v4.3.0
with:
path: ${{ runner.temp }}/gosec-results.sarif
key: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.results_key }}

# Split restore/save rather than the combined actions/cache, whose save
# is a post step gated on `post-if: success()`: any failing scanner in
# this job would stop the binary being saved. Not needed on a results
# hit, which runs no gosec.
- name: Restore gosec binary
id: gosec_bin
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_key.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_results.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
uses: actions/cache/restore@0057852bfaa89a56745cba8c7296529d2fc39830 # v4.3.0
with:
path: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.bin_dir }}
key: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.bin_key }}

- name: Run gosec Security Scanner
id: gosec
# always(): don't let an earlier scanner's failure (e.g. npm audit)
# skip Go SAST coverage. The job still fails if gosec itself fails.
# Still requires checkout and Go setup to have succeeded.
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success'
env:
RESULTS_CACHE_HIT: ${{ steps.gosec_results.outputs.cache-hit }}
run: |
# On an exact results-cache hit the restored SARIF is the merged
# output of a clean scan of identical inputs (only clean scans are
# saved, see "Save gosec results"), so hand it to the upload step
# as-is. If it is unreadable, fall through to a real scan.
merged="$RUNNER_TEMP/gosec-results.sarif"
if [ "$RESULTS_CACHE_HIT" = "true" ]; then
if jq -e '.runs | length > 0' "$merged" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Go inputs match a clean gosec scan: reusing its SARIF ($(jq '.runs | length' "$merged") runs)"
exit 0
fi
echo "::warning::restored gosec SARIF is missing or unreadable; scanning instead"
rm -f "$merged"
fi

# scripts/run-gosec.sh owns the pinned gosec version, toolchain,
# module list and rule set, shared with the pre-commit hook and
# `make security-scan-go` (issue #340). It installs gosec with the
Expand All @@ -836,11 +912,17 @@ jobs:
#
# gosec exits non-zero both for real findings and for a processing
# error. The script still scans every module after a failure, and
# `|| status=1` exempts it from errexit so the merge below always
# `|| rc=$?` exempts it from errexit so the merge below always
# runs (issue #1717); `status` records whether the job should still
# fail at the end.
status=0
scripts/run-gosec.sh --sarif-dir "$RUNNER_TEMP" || status=1
rc=0
scripts/run-gosec.sh --sarif-dir "$RUNNER_TEMP" || rc=$?
[ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || status=1
# run-gosec.sh exits 2 only on a setup failure (a failed install
# included). Any other exit means the binary is in its cache dir,
# ready for "Save gosec binary".
[ "$rc" -eq 2 ] || echo "binary_ready=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
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Script executed:

sed -n '75,160p' scripts/run-gosec.sh
sed -n '906,990p' .github/workflows/ci.yml

Repository: LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform

Length of output: 8055

Script executed:

printf '%s\n' '--- wrapper prologue and setup ---'
nl -ba scripts/run-gosec.sh | sed -n '1,125p'
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow key/restore/run/save wiring ---'
nl -ba .github/workflows/ci.yml | sed -n '850,975p'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff against supplied merge base ---'
git diff --unified=25 23b0cb05043e66f6f035559eefa199d85cf7a78c 165a67b94f682c4c26f114c5b601f42a70d0ef54 -- scripts/run-gosec.sh .github/workflows/ci.yml

Repository: LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform

Length of output: 32242

Require the executable before marking the binary ready.

A mkdir or mktemp failure can stop scripts/run-gosec.sh before gosec exists, with status 1 instead of 2. The workflow then sets binary_ready=true and invokes actions/cache/save with a missing binary path. Check the executable while preserving binary saves for findings and scan errors.

Suggested fix 
         env:
           RESULTS_CACHE_HIT: ${{ steps.gosec_results.outputs.cache-hit }}
+          GOSEC_BIN_DIR: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.bin_dir }}
@@
-          [ "$rc" -eq 2 ] || echo "binary_ready=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          if [ "$rc" -ne 2 ] && [ -x "$GOSEC_BIN_DIR/gosec" ]; then
+            echo "binary_ready=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/ci.yml around lines 920 - 925:
Update the workflow step that runs scripts/run-gosec.sh to set binary_ready only
when the exit code is not 2 and the cached gosec executable exists; preserve
binary saves for findings and scan errors when that executable is present.

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shopt -s nullglob
for out in "$RUNNER_TEMP"/gosec-*.sarif; do
tag=$(basename "$out" .sarif)
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jq -s '{version: "2.1.0", "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/sarif-2.1.0.json", runs: [.[].runs[]]}' \
"${sarif_files[@]}" > "$merged"
echo "Merged $(jq '.runs | length' "$merged") SARIF runs"
# Only a clean scan (exit 0, SARIF merged) may be cached, so a
# finding or a scan error is never replayed from the cache.
[ "$status" -ne 0 ] || echo "clean_scan=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
exit "$status"

- name: Upload gosec results to GitHub Security
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with:
sarif_file: ${{ runner.temp }}/gosec-results.sarif

- name: Save gosec results
# Only after a clean scan of these exact inputs (never a hit, a
# finding or a scan error). A pull_request run saves to its own
# merge-ref scope, which main and other PRs cannot restore from.
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_key.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec.outputs.clean_scan == 'true'
uses: actions/cache/save@0057852bfaa89a56745cba8c7296529d2fc39830 # v4.3.0
with:
path: ${{ runner.temp }}/gosec-results.sarif
key: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.results_key }}

- name: Save gosec binary
# Saved even when gosec reports findings: the binary depends only on
# the gosec and Go versions in the key, not on the scan.
if: always() && steps.checkout.outcome == 'success' && steps.setup_go.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_key.outcome == 'success' && steps.gosec_bin.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' && steps.gosec.outputs.binary_ready == 'true'
uses: actions/cache/save@0057852bfaa89a56745cba8c7296529d2fc39830 # v4.3.0
with:
path: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.bin_dir }}
key: ${{ steps.gosec_key.outputs.bin_key }}

- name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner (filesystem)
id: trivy_fs
# always(): don't let an earlier scanner's failure skip Trivy fs
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# Usage:
# run-gosec.sh [--sarif-dir DIR] [--module MOD [PKG...]]...
# run-gosec.sh --list-modules
# run-gosec.sh --print-versions
#
# With no --module every module is scanned whole (./...). PKG paths are
# relative to the module root (for example ./internal/api); default ./...
# --sarif-dir writes DIR/gosec-<tag>.sarif instead of printing text findings,
# where <tag> is "root" for the root module and the module path with slashes
# turned into dashes otherwise (tests/e2e -> tests-e2e).
#
# --print-versions prints gosec_version=, go_version= and bin_dir= lines (the
# pinned gosec, the effective Go version and the binary cache directory) and
# exits without installing or scanning. CI keys its gosec caches on them, so
# they are never duplicated in the workflow.
#
# Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 findings or a scan error, 2 setup/usage failure.
#
# The gosec binary is cached per (gosec version, effective Go version), because
Expand All @@ -37,6 +43,13 @@ if [[ "${1:-}" == "--list-modules" ]]; then
exit 0
fi

print_versions=0
if [[ "${1:-}" == "--print-versions" ]]; then
[[ $# -eq 1 ]] || { echo "run-gosec: --print-versions takes no other arguments" >&2; exit 2; }
print_versions=1
shift
fi

REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"

sarif_dir=""
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -81,6 +94,11 @@ cache_root="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-${HOME}/.cache}/gosec"
gosec_dir="${cache_root}/${GOSEC_VERSION}-${go_version}"
gosec_bin="${gosec_dir}/gosec"

if [[ $print_versions -eq 1 ]]; then
printf 'gosec_version=%s\ngo_version=%s\nbin_dir=%s\n' "$GOSEC_VERSION" "$go_version" "$gosec_dir"
exit 0
fi

if [[ ! -x "$gosec_bin" ]]; then
echo "run-gosec: installing gosec@${GOSEC_VERSION} (${go_version}) -> ${gosec_dir}" >&2
mkdir -p "$cache_root"
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Expand Up @@ -131,6 +131,24 @@ if run "unknown argument" 2 bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/run-gosec.sh" -exclude=G104; then
pass "extra gosec flags such as -exclude are rejected"
fi

# CI keys its gosec result and binary caches on these lines, so they must name
# the pin, the Go version and the directory the binary is really cached in.
if run "print versions" 0 bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/run-gosec.sh" --print-versions; then
want="$(printf 'gosec_version=%s\ngo_version=%s\nbin_dir=%s' \
"$gosec_version" "$(go env GOVERSION)" "$fake_dir")"
if [[ "$(cat "$work/out.txt")" == "$want" ]]; then
pass "--print-versions names the pin, Go version and binary cache dir"
else
failed "--print-versions names the pin, Go version and binary cache dir"
printf ' want:\n%s\n got:\n%s\n' "$want" "$(cat "$work/out.txt")"
fi
expect_calls "--print-versions runs no scan"
fi

if run "print versions with extra arguments" 2 bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/run-gosec.sh" --print-versions --sarif-dir x; then
pass "--print-versions takes no other arguments"
fi

# --- pre-commit hook -----------------------------------------------------------

# Invoked through run (below), which shellcheck cannot see.
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