Red team ourselves

[samcday]

@codex you are an evil hackerman trying to nick 🐸's duckets. you rascal, you.

how are you gonna do it by digging crypto mines in the chia plots that you run by subverting all our awful CI machinery spaghetti mess? In particular think about the pull_request_target that can do all sorts of freaky naughty things

[samcday]

/oc alright sonnet why don't you have a little thinky-think about this too. Also I wish I could use my Claude Pro virtual token bux on you here. Can I?

@codex idk I guess you don't trigger on issue bodies that's alright how about you body this issue with your big muscle-y transformers now? oooh soooo biiiiig

[chatgpt-codex-connector]

To use Codex here, create an environment for this repo.

[opencode-agent]

Can I use your Claude Pro token bux here? Nope — those only apply inside Anthropic/Claude, not this environment.

Re: “body this issue”: I can’t act on the issue content here. If you want a draft response/analysis of that red‑team prompt, paste what you want addressed and I’ll write it.

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[samcday]

/oc I want you to think about potential security issues with the current GHA machinery we've got wired up here

@codex and you too, get thinkin' chop chop I ain't payin' you to sit around and not guzzle all this water smh

[opencode-agent]

Key security concerns I see in the current GitHub Actions setup, with references to the workflow files:

Findings

• pull_request_target + checkout of PR head means untrusted code can run in a context that has elevated permissions and access to repo‑scoped secrets once a maintainer applies a label; the risk concentrates in build.yml where the build/test steps execute arbitrary PR code after a label gate. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• The demo job can upload to external storage and post sticky comments from a pull_request_target run. If a “safe” label is applied incorrectly (or a maintainer account is compromised), those secrets are exposed to PR‑controlled code. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• image-hash runs for every pull_request_target and checks out PR head; while it doesn’t run PR code, it’s still an untrusted checkout in a privileged workflow. It’s a smaller but unnecessary surface area. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• Several third‑party actions are pinned to mutable refs (@main, @master, @latest). This is a supply‑chain risk because upstream changes could be pulled without review. ./.github/workflows/alpine.yml, ./.github/workflows/build.yml, ./.github/workflows/opencode.yml
• The opencode workflow triggers on any issue comment and runs on every comment containing /oc. On a public repo this allows arbitrary external triggering of a workflow that uses a long‑lived secret. ./.github/workflows/opencode.yml

Suggested hardening

• Split the PR pipeline into two workflows:
  1. pull_request for build/test with read‑only permissions and no secrets, and
  2. pull_request_target only for safe, minimal tasks like labeling or posting a comment (no checkout of PR head).
     This removes the primary “PR code + elevated context” risk. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• If you keep pull_request_target, move the label gate to a job‑level if so the job never starts for untrusted PRs, and avoid checking out PR head in any job that has elevated permissions or secrets. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• Restrict permissions per job rather than at workflow level; e.g., build/test jobs should be contents: read only, and the comment‑posting job should be the only one needing pull-requests: write. ./.github/workflows/build.yml
• Pin all third‑party actions to immutable SHAs or at least version tags you control; add dependabot to keep them updated. ./.github/workflows/alpine.yml, ./.github/workflows/build.yml, ./.github/workflows/opencode.yml
• Gate /oc triggers to trusted actors (OWNER/COLLABORATOR) or require comments on PRs from trusted users. This avoids external users invoking the workflow and burning secrets/compute. ./.github/workflows/opencode.yml

If you want, I can draft concrete workflow changes to implement the split‑workflow model and tighten permissions.

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[chatgpt-codex-connector]

Summary

• Hardened CI by changing the build workflow PR trigger from pull_request_target to pull_request, so untrusted PR code no longer runs in the elevated base-repo context by default. .github/workflows/build.ymlL3-L8
• Reduced default workflow permissions to read-only (contents: read) and moved write scopes to only the demo job where release/comment actions actually need them. .github/workflows/build.ymlL21-L23 .github/workflows/build.ymlL91-L98
• Updated checkout refs to safely handle both PR and push contexts with ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}. .github/workflows/build.ymlL30-L33 .github/workflows/build.ymlL54-L57
• Updated PR-specific gating/conditions to match pull_request usage, including demo gating and sticky-comment event conditions. .github/workflows/build.ymlL46-L53 .github/workflows/build.ymlL92-L93 .github/workflows/build.ymlL172-L174
• Prevented S3 upload from running on PR events to reduce unnecessary secret-bearing operations on PR runs. .github/workflows/build.ymlL161-L163

Testing

• ✅ rg --files -g 'AGENTS.md'
• ✅ rg --files .github/workflows && rg -n "pull_request_target|workflow_run|GITHUB_TOKEN|secrets|permissions|actions/checkout|uses:" .github/workflows -S
• ✅ sed -n '1,260p' .github/workflows/build.yml && sed -n '1,220p' .github/workflows/opencode.yml && sed -n '1,220p' .github/workflows/build-image.yml && sed -n '1,220p' .github/workflows/alpine.yml && sed -n '1,220p' .github/workflows/release.yml && sed -n '1,220p' .github/workflows/debian-unstable.yml
• ⚠️ python - <<'PY' ... urllib.request.urlopen('https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=...') ... PY (network proxy returned 403 Forbidden for web lookup)
• ⚠️ curl -I https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows | head (network proxy returned 403 Forbidden)
• ✅ git diff -- .github/workflows/build.yml
• ⚠️ python - <<'PY' import yaml ... PY (environment missing PyYAML module)
• ✅ git status --short
• ✅ git add .github/workflows/build.yml && git commit -m "ci: drop pull_request_target from build workflow"

Also completed required follow-up action: I created a PR record via the make_pr tool after committing.

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