cisagov / cisagov/skeleton-docker

Re-enable GitHub permissions monitoring when practical

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Description

💡 Summary

In #223 we disabled GitHub permissions monitoring because this functionality is poorly implemented and has been causing GitHub actions workflows to fail or hang due to the MITM implementation hogging or leaking memory. This functionality should be re-enabled when this becomes practical.

Motivation and context

It is useful to monitor GitHub permissions so ensure that we allow only the minimal required permissions. Once we can do so without unnecessary workflow failures we should.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing issue #223 and the GitHubSecurityLab actions-permissions monitor linked in this issue. Determine whether its MITM implementation can monitor GitHub permissions without causing workflows to fail or hang from memory use. Done means monitoring is re-enabled only once those workflow failures and hangs are avoided.

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Assessment

Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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