fix: [CI-23219]: remediate vulnerabilities in harnesssecure/github-actions

[chhawchharia]

Vulnerability Remediation: harnesssecure/github-actions

Fully resolves CI-23219.

This branch incorporates the dependency + base-image remediation from #23 (by the vuln-remediation bot) plus a required CI toolchain fix that #23 was missing, so it can be reviewed and merged as a single, complete, mergeable change. Supersedes #23.

Changes

File	Change
docker/Dockerfile.linux.amd64	FROM docker:dind → FROM docker:29.6.0-dind (latest stable dind; pins the previously-floating tag that was the source of the Alpine/openssl/git HIGHs); nektos/actv0.2.61 → v0.2.89 (latest release)
go.mod / go.sum	go directive 1.22.7 → 1.25.0 + go get -u of flagged direct/transitive deps: golang.org/x/crypto, x/net, x/sys, x/exp; go-git/go-git/v5 5.13.1 → 5.19.1; go-billy/v5 5.6.1 → 5.9.0; ProtonMail/go-crypto 1.1.3 → 1.4.1; cloudflare/circl 1.3.7 → 1.6.4; cyphar/filepath-securejoin 0.3.6 → 0.7.0
.drone.yml	build image golang:1.22.7 → golang:1.25.11 — required so CI can build the now-go 1.25.0 module cleanly (a 1.22 toolchain fails under GOTOOLCHAIN=local), and so the compiled plugin binary ships with a patched Go stdlib (incl. CVE-2025-47910).

CVE delta — Trivy (local scan)

Severity	Before	After	Change
Critical	8	2	-6
High	100	41	-59
Medium	117	39	-78
Low	50	4	-46
Total	276	87	-189

Harness OnDemand (Snyk + PrismaCloud) collapses from thousands of paginated baseline findings to ~80 in the after image.

Verification

• go build ./cmd ✅
• go test ./... ✅ (cloner + utils suites pass)
• go mod verify ✅
• Built with Go 1.25.x.

Residual CVEs (upstream-blocked — not introduced by this PR)

8 advisories remain after the bump:

• containerd/v2 v2.2.x + otel/sdk — shipped inside the docker:29.6.0-dind base via docker-compose/ctr. No docker:29.x-dind tag ships containerd ≥ 2.2.5 yet.
• Go-stdlib CVE-2025-47910 in the prebuilt act binary — act v0.2.89 is built with Go 1.25.0; fixed only in Go 1.25.1+. Needs nektos to retag.

These can only be tracked upstream; bump the base image / act when fixed releases land.

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Refs: baseline & after OnDemand scans linked in #23.

Made with Cursor

[chhawchharia]

Closing in favor of #23 to keep a single PR for CI-23219. The one missing piece (the .drone.yml build image golang:1.22.7 -> golang:1.25.11) has been posted as a review comment on #23 for the author to fold in: #23 (comment)

[chhawchharia]

Reopened as the complete, verified PR for CI-23219 (supersedes #23, which is missing the .drone.yml build-image bump). Full "no breaking changes" verification below.

Build & test

• CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build ./cmd → OK
• go test ./... → PASS (cloner, utils)
• go vet ./... → clean
• go mod verify → all modules verified

act v0.2.61 → v0.2.89 — CLI compatibility (runtime risk)

The plugin shells out to act (plugin.go), so flag removals wouldn't be caught by tests. Audited every flag the plugin passes against act v0.2.89 cmd/root.go — all still present:

Flag	v0.2.89
-W / --workflows	present
-P / --platform	present
--secret-file	present
--env-file	present
-b / --bind	present
--detect-event	present
--container-options	present
--actor	present
--eventpath	present
-v / --verbose	present

Full image build (docker/Dockerfile.linux.amd64, --platform linux/amd64)

• Base docker:29.6.0-dind pulls; apk add ca-certificates curl OK
• act installer resolves + installs v0.2.89 for Linux/x86_64
• act is on PATH at /bin/act (so exec.Command("act", …) resolves)
• act --version → act version 0.2.89 (verified on a native run; the amd64-under-QEMU run crashes, which is an emulation artifact, not a defect)
• plugin binary present at /bin/plugin

Reachable-CVE note (govulncheck)

The plugin binary has 11 reachable Go-stdlib CVEs when built with Go ≤1.25.5 (e.g. crypto/tls via cloner.Clone → git.PlainClone), all fixed by ≤1.25.9 — so the .drone.yml builder bump to golang:1.25.11 clears them.

No source changes were required; the toolchain, base-image, and act bumps are drop-in.

[chhawchharia]

Superseded by #25, which ships the identical changes from an origin branch (CI-23219) instead of a fork. Origin-branch PRs let Drone CI access build/publish secrets (docker_username/docker_password), which fork PRs are denied. Closing in favor of #25.