Add OpenSSF Scorecard workflow to publish a public security score - #94
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Mirrors qBraid/qBraid#1343 so the two repositories are graded the same way. Runs weekly and on pushes to main, checks supply-chain practices such as branch protection, token permissions, dependency pinning and signed releases, uploads SARIF to code scanning, and publishes the aggregate score. publish_results: true is what makes the score publicly visible; it reports check results, not source. Expect a middling first score. Several checks will fail on things already known here, and that is the point of establishing a baseline.
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WalkthroughAdded a GitHub Actions workflow that runs OpenSSF Scorecard analysis on scheduled, push, branch-protection, and manual triggers. The workflow publishes SARIF results, retains the artifact for five days, and uploads the results to GitHub code scanning. ChangesOpenSSF Scorecard automation
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR adds automated public security scoring, but the workflow currently uses mutable action references and broad default permissions, weakening the security guarantees of the new check and increasing exposure to unexpected action changes. Merge should wait for immutable action pinning and least-privilege defaults, or require explicit owner acceptance of those bounded risks. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/scorecard.yml:
- Around line 3-9: Add a top-level concurrency configuration to the Scorecard
workflow, using the stable group name scorecard and enabling cancel-in-progress
so newer runs replace overlapping runs triggered by push, schedule,
branch_protection_rule, or workflow_dispatch.
- Line 21: Add a concise YAML comment immediately above the actions: read
permission explaining which Scorecard check or behavior requires it, while
leaving the permission value unchanged.
- Line 11: Change the workflow-level permissions setting from read-all to an
empty permissions map, while preserving the explicit required permissions on the
analysis job.
- Line 25: Pin every workflow action reference in scorecard.yml, including
checkout, scorecard-action, upload-artifact, and codeql-action, to the specified
full commit SHAs while retaining version comments. Replace the invalid
scorecard-action v2 reference and configure automated updates for these pinned
dependencies.
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Addresses the review on #94. `ossf/scorecard-action@v2` did not resolve: that repository publishes v2.3.3 through v2.4.4 and has no `v2` tag or branch, so the step could never have run. Pinning fixes it as a side effect. Every action is now pinned to a full commit SHA with its release in a comment. A tag is mutable and can be repointed at other code, which is what Scorecard's own Pinned-Dependencies check looks for. Each SHA was resolved from its upstream repository rather than copied from the review: the suggested codeql-action SHA was v3.37.7, superseded by v3.37.8 on 2026-08-21. Workflow default permissions drop from `read-all` to `{}`. Job-level permissions replace the workflow block rather than extending it, so `analysis` is unaffected, but a job added later now starts with nothing instead of repository-wide read. Added a concurrency group so overlapping runs from the four triggers cannot publish SARIF out of order, and a comment recording why `actions: read` is present -- upstream documents it for private repositories, and this repo is public, so it is a safeguard rather than a requirement.
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All four addressed in e5b76f7. One correction and one bug found while verifying. Pin actions to SHAs — done, all four. I resolved each SHA from its upstream repository rather than copying them from the review, since pasting an unverified SHA is the supply-chain risk that pinning exists to prevent. Three matched. The fourth did not: the suggested This surfaced a real bug.
Concurrency group — added as suggested. Scorecard reports current repository state, so a superseded run has nothing to contribute and cancelling keeps published SARIF in trigger order. Document Not addressed: the yamllint |
Both are private-repository permissions and this repo is public. The only Actions API call Scorecard makes is ListWorkflowRunsByFileName, from the Packaging and Binary-Artifacts checks. That endpoint is publicly readable: requesting it for a public repo with no authentication at all returns 200. Upstream's starter workflow ships `contents: read` and `actions: read` commented out under "uncomment if installing in a private repository", and OSSF runs Scorecard on its own public repos -- ossf/scorecard and ossf/scorecard-action -- with `security-events: write` and `id-token: write` alone. Those runs are green and score Packaging 10, Binary-Artifacts 10 and CI-Tests 10, which is the same evidence for dropping `contents: read`: their checkout step works without it. Follows #94, which merged before this was raised in review on qBraid/pyqasm#412.
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Mirrors qBraid/qBraid#1343 so both repositories are graded the same way. The workflow file is byte-identical.
Adds the OpenSSF Scorecard action, which grades a repository against a set of supply-chain security checks and publishes the result publicly.
qBraid/qbraid-algorithmshas no published Scorecard today, so there is currently no third-party measure of the project's security posture. After the first run there will be a score athttps://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/qBraid/qbraid-algorithms, and a badge is available if we want one in the README.What it does
Runs weekly and on pushes to
main, checks things like branch protection, signed releases, dependency pinning, token permissions, fuzzing and CI tests, uploads SARIF to code scanning, and publishes the aggregate score.Notes
publish_results: trueis what makes the score publicly visible. It reports only the check results, not source.publish.ymland the absence of signed releases. That is the point of establishing a baseline.Summary by CodeRabbit