scorecard VS harden-runner

For general open source hygiene, I'd recommend running OpenSSF scorecards on your github repo and following-up on anything it suggests. https://github.com/ossf/scorecard.

The OSSF scorecard initiative is really good to assess your project against security best practices. I am not the first to write about this.

Each area has its own associated risk, so the overall score is the average of the five areas. Here, you can check the details of each by consulting the documentation in detail.

Mitigation, according to Sean, is a combination of appropriate (network) access control, SCA (Software Composition Analysis) tooling to manage your policies around CVEs, and purging “all the things”. He also thinks MFA (multi-factor authentication) for authors of (critical) packages should be required. Sean gets his vulnerability insights from deps.dev, ossindex.sonatype, and cvedetails.com, and closely monitors interesting initiatives such as the OpenSSF Security Scorecards - a tool to assess open source projects for security risks through a series of automated checks.

Give feedback on new security standards: The various security standards like OpenSSF Scorecard and SLSA.dev can be a lot to digest, but they are likely going to be very influential in developing government standards. Take a peek at them, and if you have concerns or questions, file issues. The people behind them want to hear from a broad range of maintainers, so your feedback really does matter. (If you're a Tidelift maintainer partner, you can also bring the feedback to us—we are participating in these discussions, and may be able to either point to existing discussions, explain them more deeply, or bring your feedback to the appropriate places.)

Security Scorecards

I recommend using https://deps.dev to get a feeling for what you are bringing into your project. It also integrates with OSSF Scorecards, which gives a good overview over how healthy the project is, and whether it employs industry best practices.

Fortunately there is a great free online tool that help you by doing all the hard work (it will open a pull-request and automatically fix issues).

If using GitHub Actions for CI/ CD, Harden Runner (https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner) can be used to audit and block DNS exfiltration. Outbound calls from CI are predictable (to source repo, artifact registry, etc.) and don't change often.

As part of writing tests for Harden Runner GitHub Action, which prevents such attacks, there was a need to write attack simulator for these attacks.

I am not too familiar with GitLab, to be honest, but: - Commit/PR linting (to be in tandem with semantic versioning) is implemented via third-party GitHub Actions (https://github.com/amannn/action-semantic-pull-request and https://github.com/wagoid/commitlint-github-action), these might be hard to transfer - Blocking egress to mitigate supply chain attacks is performed by step security’s Harden Runner (https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner), you may raise a question there about GitLab support - CodeQL support is GitHub only AFAIK (but you would have to verify it)

I've found StepSecurity's tooling helpful in getting my repos secured.

* https://app.stepsecurity.io/securerepo

I agree. There are projects such as https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis and https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner that do behavior analysis. Disclaimer: I’m maintainer of the second one.

So if you are concerned about this, I'd suggest looking at the following:

* OpenSSF Scorecard Action - https://github.com/ossf/scorecard#scorecards-github-action

* Step Security Harden Action - https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner

I realize that this means trusting these providers but they seem at least tacitly blessed by GitHub. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-...

Few hours back several malicious packages were released on npm registry. This video shows how some of these packages are making outbound calls as part of the preinstall step when executed in a GitHub Actions workflow. DNS Exfiltration and network calls detected by Harden-Runner GitHub Action https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner