NixOS GitHub infrastructure security needs improvement
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- Shell
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Description
Although GHSA-67f2-674w-6g63 was found to have ultimately resulted in no practical impact, the audit has exposed systemic risks to the security of our GitHub infrastructure. I’m opening this and the linked issues to track our progress addressing them.
cc @NixOS/org @NixOS/security @NixOS/nixpkgs-ci
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing GHSA-67f2-674w-6g63 and the linked issues tracking the audit findings. Turn the exposed systemic risks into concrete GitHub infrastructure security work; done requires addressing the tracked risks and documenting progress.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github
- Domain
- infrastructure, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100