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GitHub Actions Cache Poisoning is eating open source (neciudan.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/security@programming.dev

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[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

The 👏 death 👏 of 👏 github 👏 will 👏 never 👏 be 👏 the 👏 death 👏 of 👏 open 👏 source

[+] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Running actions on your own machine doesn't solve cache poisoning or supply chain attacks, your VM will download compromised npm package or github actions the same way GH runner does.

Version pinning/script disabling makes a compromise slightly less likely, rolling your own package server helps a lot (but who got time to maintain version whitelist).

Honestly the best solution is to have minimum amount of dependencies. You don't need a GH action to ping indexers or generic foreign key library for your backed, hammer one yourself.

That and scope all your keys so the leak won't be as devastating 🤷‍♀️

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly the best solution is to have minimum amount of dependencies.

Isn't this a sane practice in programming anyway? Just don't go overboard with dependency minimalism.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but the reality of JavaScript codebases is that you'll typically import hundreds if not thousands of dependencies fairly quickly. Last time I looked at the UI codebase at my job it was sitting at over 40k.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's one of the reasons) why JS development is the shitshow it is.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

How do you run it on a local machine?