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fix(guardrail): detect direct pushes using merged PR records - #54
Identify PR merges into this repository's main using GitHub's merged-PR records, including rebase merges, rather than trusting committer names or exempting bot pushes.
Correlate matching PRs with the captured push payload's repository.pushed_at, accepting epoch or UTC ISO timestamps within a documented 60-second tolerance. This avoids runner-queue and rerun timing errors and alerts on stale merge restorations.
Always alert for forced updates; if event timing is missing or invalid, warn and send an alert rather than suppressing it.
Validate the Slack webhook before the successful-merge early exit and require HTTP 200, rejecting redirects and delivery failures.
Test the actual shell script with isolated GitHub and Slack stubs in a dedicated CI job that also runs for test-only changes.
Scope and relationships
Changes are limited to .github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml, .github/workflows/ci.yaml, and tests/test_guardrail_audit_alert.py. Action interfaces, releases, dependencies, and existing Python tooling are unchanged. The guardrail workflow and test file are identical across all fifteen action repositories; other CI content and pins are preserved.
This addresses the concern reviewed in action-detect-act-env#53, without using the unsupported github.run_started_at context from Copilot's corrective commit. The guardrail correction can merge independently of the actionlint-pinning PR.
All ten guardrail test methods passed in every repository, covering 35 checks per repository, including timestamp/window boundaries, delayed runs/reruns, pagination, PR identity, forced and bot pushes, missing configuration, lookup failures, payload escaping, and HTTP redirects/delivery failures.
Workflow/test byte equality and absence of unrelated CI changes were checked across all fifteen repositories.
No live Slack webhook delivery was exercised.
Known limitation
This is best-effort temporal correlation, not complete event-provenance tracking. A rewind and restoration within 60 seconds of the original PR merge may still suppress the restoration alert. That bounded limitation is intentional; exact detection of every replay is outside this change's scope.
Guardrail: The workflow now checks GitHub’s merged-PR records to identify pushes that match a merge into this repository’s main. It requires the merge SHA to match and the merge time to fall within 60 seconds of the push event time. Matching pushes do not trigger Slack alerts.
Alert handling: Forced pushes skip the PR check and trigger an alert. Missing or invalid push timestamps also trigger an alert. The workflow no longer excludes pushes based on committer name or Dependabot actor.
Reliability: The workflow grants pull-requests: read permission. It safely builds the Slack JSON payload and fails on missing webhook configuration, API errors, delivery errors, or any Slack response other than HTTP 200.
CI and tests: CI adds a guardrail-test job. The new tests exercise merge matching, timestamp boundaries, forced pushes, failure handling, and payload escaping using stubbed GitHub and Slack commands. Test execution results were not provided.
The guardrail workflow now suppresses qualifying alerts for merged pull requests and validates Slack delivery. Tests cover correlation, fallback conditions, payload handling, and delivery responses. CI runs the guardrail test suite.
Changes: Guardrail alert workflow
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Push context and merged-PR correlation .github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml, tests/test_guardrail_audit_alert.py, .github/workflows/ci.yaml
The workflow checks non-forced pushes with valid timestamps against merged pull requests. It suppresses an alert only when the PR targets main in the same repository, has the pushed SHA as its merge commit, and was merged within 60 seconds of the push. Tests cover matching boundaries, pagination, forced pushes, and fallback or error cases. CI runs the test suite.
The workflow requires a Slack webhook URL and fails on curl errors or responses other than HTTP 200. Tests check response handling and payload escaping.
sequenceDiagram
participant GuardrailWorkflow
participant GitHubAPI
participant SlackWebhook
GuardrailWorkflow->>GitHubAPI: Query pull requests for a non-forced push with a valid timestamp
GitHubAPI-->>GuardrailWorkflow: Return associated pull requests
GuardrailWorkflow->>SlackWebhook: Send alert when no pull request meets the suppression conditions
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Merge Risk: Low · up to c9bdf
Slack delivery errors fail the job, but their response details are lost, making failures harder to diagnose. This is a bounded issue to fix or accept before merging.
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The title clearly describes the main guardrail change: using merged PR records to distinguish merge pushes from direct pushes.
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What changed in this PR
Updates the repository’s guardrail workflow to identify merges through GitHub’s merged-PR records rather than committer names, supporting rebase merges while preserving always-enabled auditing.
Changes:
Matches pushed SHAs against merged PRs targeting this repository’s main.
Removes the Dependabot exemption and routes forced pushes directly to alerting.
Grants PR read permission, constructs Slack payloads safely, and fails on API, missing-webhook, or HTTP delivery errors.
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Description
.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml
Replaces committer-based detection with PR-record checks and strengthens Slack alert error handling.
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml:
- Around line 65-70: Update the Slack webhook request and status-check branch:
remove `--fail-with-body` so HTTP error responses remain available in
`SLACK_RESPONSE`, then include the response body in the error diagnostic for
non-200 statuses. Preserve the existing HTTP 200 check and transport-error
behavior.
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[warning] 25-25: Regex pattern passed to re is built from a non-literal (variable, call, concatenation, or f-string) value. If that value is attacker-controlled it can introduce a malicious pattern with catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS). Use a hardcoded literal pattern, or validate/escape untrusted input with re.escape() and bound the regex complexity before compiling.
Context: re.search(pattern, WORKFLOW.read_text(), re.M)
Note: [CWE-1333] Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity.
(redos-non-literal-regex-python)
[info] 66-66: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps([[merged_pr()]])
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
(use-jsonify)
[error] 88-94: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.run(
["bash", "-e", "-o", "pipefail", "-c", workflow_script()],
env=environment,
capture_output=True,
text=True,
check=False,
)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
[info] 144-144: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(pages)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
(use-jsonify)
zizmor (1.30.1)
.github/workflows/ci.yaml
[info] 93-93: workflow or action definition without a name (anonymous-definition): this job
(anonymous-definition)
.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml
[warning] 1-73: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block
(excessive-permissions)
[warning] 10-10: permissions without explanatory comments (undocumented-permissions): needs an explanatory comment
(undocumented-permissions)
Additional comments: 3
.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml: 1
25-57: LGTM!
tests/test_guardrail_audit_alert.py: 1
1-229: LGTM!
.github/workflows/ci.yaml: 1
93-106: 🎯 Functional Correctness
No aggregate job exists in ci.yaml to update. The repository source does not establish that an external required-check gate omits guardrail-test, so this concern does not support a code change.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
The Slack error body is lost, so the failure diagnostics are incomplete.
The script runs under set -e. If --fail-with-body makes curl exit non-zero (for example, exit 22 on HTTP 400), the assignment on Line 65 aborts the script. The captured body in SLACK_RESPONSE is never printed. A Slack error such as invalid_payload or no_service is then missing from the job log. Only curl's short stderr line remains.
Remove --fail-with-body. The status check on Line 69 already fails the job for any non-200 status. Curl still exits non-zero on transport errors (for example, exit 7 with status 000), so those still fail the job. Then print the body in the status branch.
🔧 Proposed fix
--- "a/.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml"+++ "b/.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml"@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@
--arg actor "$ACTOR" \
'{text: "⚠️ *Direct Push to Main Detected!*\n*Repo:* `\($repo)`\n*Actor:* `@\($actor)`\n*Commit:* `\($msg)`"}')
- SLACK_RESPONSE=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error -X POST \+ SLACK_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error -X POST \
-H 'Content-type: application/json' --data "$PAYLOAD" \
--write-out '\n%{http_code}' "$SLACK_URL")
SLACK_STATUS=${SLACK_RESPONSE##*$'\n'}
if [ "$SLACK_STATUS" != "200" ]; then
- echo "::error::Slack webhook returned HTTP ${SLACK_STATUS}; expected HTTP 200."+ echo "::error::Slack webhook returned HTTP ${SLACK_STATUS}; expected HTTP 200. Body: ${SLACK_RESPONSE%$'\n'*}"
exit 1
fi
The existing test_slack_requires_http_200 cases still pass with this change. The 400/exit 22 stub case exits non-zero through the stub's own exit code. The 204/3xx cases are caught by the status check.
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SLACK_RESPONSE=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error -X POST \
[warning] 1-73: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml around lines 65
- 70:
Update the Slack webhook request and status-check branch: remove
`--fail-with-body` so HTTP error responses remain available in `SLACK_RESPONSE`,
then include the response body in the error diagnostic for non-200 statuses.
Preserve the existing HTTP 200 check and transport-error behavior.
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Summary
mainusing GitHub's merged-PR records, including rebase merges, rather than trusting committer names or exempting bot pushes.repository.pushed_at, accepting epoch or UTC ISO timestamps within a documented 60-second tolerance. This avoids runner-queue and rerun timing errors and alerts on stale merge restorations.Scope and relationships
Changes are limited to
.github/workflows/guardrail-audit-alert.yaml,.github/workflows/ci.yaml, andtests/test_guardrail_audit_alert.py. Action interfaces, releases, dependencies, and existing Python tooling are unchanged. The guardrail workflow and test file are identical across all fifteen action repositories; other CI content and pins are preserved.This addresses the concern reviewed in action-detect-act-env#53, without using the unsupported
github.run_started_atcontext from Copilot's corrective commit. The guardrail correction can merge independently of the actionlint-pinning PR.Validation
Known limitation
This is best-effort temporal correlation, not complete event-provenance tracking. A rewind and restoration within 60 seconds of the original PR merge may still suppress the restoration alert. That bounded limitation is intentional; exact detection of every replay is outside this change's scope.
main. It requires the merge SHA to match and the merge time to fall within 60 seconds of the push event time. Matching pushes do not trigger Slack alerts.pull-requests: readpermission. It safely builds the Slack JSON payload and fails on missing webhook configuration, API errors, delivery errors, or any Slack response other than HTTP 200.guardrail-testjob. The new tests exercise merge matching, timestamp boundaries, forced pushes, failure handling, and payload escaping using stubbed GitHub and Slack commands. Test execution results were not provided.