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To reduce risk of over-privileged tokens, we are adding recommended permissions to popular GitHub-owned Actions READMEs
joshmgross
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Feb 12, 2025
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| The `actions/upload-artifact` workflow relies on an internal authentication pattern and does not use the GITHUB_TOKEN, to reduce risk of over-privileged token, jobs that use `actions/upload-artifact` should set permissions to none: |
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Same feedback as cache and download-artifact - actions/download-artifact#373 (comment)
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I think best practice is to set permissions at the top to minimal (none or contents: read for example), and then add permissions needed in each job.
See the wording in "remediation steps" for example on the ossf scorecard: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/7ce8609469289d5f3b1bf5ee3122f42b4e3054fb/docs/checks.md#token-permissions
Agreed that the proposed wording without links to more detailed documentation might break things for people.
Some docs explaining the permissions required would be good, and pointers to more detailed documentation.
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To reduce risk of over-privileged tokens, we are adding recommended permissions to popular GitHub-owned Actions READMEs. Please confirm these permissions are correct and merge the change. Thank you!