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Summary

Adds a GitHub Actions workflow that scans the Dockerfile with
DockSec and uploads the results to code
scanning as SARIF, so container findings are annotated inline on pull requests.

This repository already uploads SARIF to code scanning, so the Security tab is
in use here - the container layer is the gap.

The base image (php:8.5.2-cli, lines 1 and 6) currently carries 23 CRITICAL
and 823 HIGH
CVEs. DockSec also scores the Dockerfile at 65/100:

DL3008 warning  lines 9, 28   Pin versions in apt-get install
DL3015 info     lines 9, 28   Avoid additional packages (--no-install-recommends)
SC2046 warning  lines 13, 33  Quote this to prevent word splitting

A note on that CVE count, because 823 is not 823 action items: a Debian-based
PHP image carries a long tail of findings in packages the application never
invokes, and many have no fix upstream. The value of the SARIF upload is making
that set reviewable and showing when it changes, not implying a backlog.

Scope: the workflow scans the Dockerfile only, so the CVE counts above are not
what it reports on day one. Adding image: to the same step turns on the image
scan once you decide where the built image comes from.

No issue is linked - happy to open one first if you would prefer.

Checklist

  • composer check - N/A, no PHP changed
  • composer test / pnpm test - N/A, no application code changed
  • pnpm tsc / pnpm oxlint - N/A, no TypeScript changed
  • Tests for new behaviour - N/A, adds a CI workflow only
  • Database schema changes - N/A
  • CHANGELOG.md - not updated; no user-facing change. Happy to add an entry.
  • Dependency bumps - N/A

The workflow itself passes actionlint with no warnings.

Disclosure: I used an AI assistant (Claude) to draft this description and generate
the workflow file from DockSec's documented Action inputs. The scan results quoted
above are from runs I did myself; the workflow passes actionlint and I verified its
SARIF output against the published DockSec container before opening this.

Disclosure of interest: I am the project lead for DockSec, the tool this workflow
adds. Happy to close this if it is not a fit - no hard feelings either way.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added automated security scanning for the root container definition on changes to the main branch, relevant pull requests, and a weekly schedule.
    • Scan results are uploaded to code-scanning reports for review.

Scans the Dockerfile with DockSec and uploads the results to code scanning
as SARIF, so container findings are annotated on pull requests.

Runs scan-only, so no API key is required and no gate is added to the build.
All actions are pinned to a commit SHA.

Signed-off-by: Advait Patel <advaitpa93@gmail.com>
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The pull request adds a GitHub Actions workflow that runs DockSec for root Dockerfile changes, pull requests, and a weekly schedule. It scans in SARIF mode and uploads results to Code Scanning when the token supports security-event writes.

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DockSec CI scanning

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DockSec workflow integration
.github/workflows/docksec.yml
The workflow runs on relevant pushes, pull requests, and Mondays at 06:00 UTC. It uses read-only contents access, disables checkout credential persistence, scans the root Dockerfile with DockSec, and skips SARIF upload for fork pull requests.

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In @.github/workflows/docksec.yml:
- Line 36: Align the workflow’s path filters with the Dockerfile configured by
the scan step: either scan every matching nested Dockerfile and Containerfile,
or restrict the triggers to changes affecting the repository-root Dockerfile.
Update the workflow around the dockerfile scan configuration and its path
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@advaitpatel Thanks for your PR!

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You are seeing this message because GitHub Code Scanning has recently been set up for this repository, or this pull request contains the workflow file for the Code Scanning tool.

What Enabling Code Scanning Means:

  • The 'Security' tab will display more code scanning analysis results (e.g., for the default branch).
  • Depending on your configuration and choice of analysis tool, future pull requests will be annotated with code scanning analysis results.
  • You will be able to see the analysis results for the pull request's branch on this overview once the scans have completed and the checks have passed.

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@advaitpatel Could you please check the code review result?

…IF upload

The path filter matched nested Dockerfile/Containerfile variants but the scan
itself only ever reads the root Dockerfile, so a change to a nested file would
trigger a green run that scanned nothing relevant - worse than no scan, since
it reads as coverage that isn't there. Narrowed the trigger to match what is
actually scanned.

checkout now sets persist-credentials: false; nothing after it needs the token
in git config, and the next step runs third-party actions.

The SARIF upload no longer runs unconditionally on fork pull requests. GITHUB_TOKEN
is read-only there, so security-events: write cannot apply and the upload would
fail every time - turning a routine fork contribution into a red required check.
It now runs on push, on same-repo PRs, and on schedule, and is skipped on fork PRs.

Thanks to a reviewer on an earlier PR for catching all three.

Signed-off-by: Advait Patel <advaitpa93@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the ping - checked it. CodeRabbit's finding was against ba83b05, the original commit; 78ee3ae (pushed right after) already fixes exactly this: the trigger now matches only the literal root Dockerfile/Containerfile paths instead of the **/Dockerfile* glob, so it can't fire on a nested file the scan step doesn't read. Current file on this branch has that change - nothing outstanding on my end unless you spot something else.

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Thanks for the contribution!

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