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Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 40: Checkout of untrusted code in a non-privileged context #2319

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fix(reviews): pass inputs.agent_ref via env instead of interpolating …
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32 changes: 31 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/dev-lead-reusable.yml
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with:
token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_DON_PETRY || secrets.GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS || github.token }}

- name: Validate dev-lead ref input
shell: bash
env:
AGENT_REF: ${{ inputs.agent_ref }}
run: |
ref="$AGENT_REF"
if [ -z "$ref" ]; then
ref="main"
fi

# Block untrusted PR refs and unsafe ref formats.
if [[ "$ref" =~ ^refs/pull/ ]]; then
echo "::error::inputs.agent_ref must not be a pull-request ref: $ref"
exit 1
fi
if [[ "$ref" =~ ^[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$ ]]; then
echo "::error::inputs.agent_ref must not be a raw commit SHA: $ref"
exit 1
fi
if [[ "$ref" == *".."* || "$ref" == *":"* || "$ref" =~ [[:space:]] ]]; then
echo "::error::inputs.agent_ref contains unsafe characters: $ref"
exit 1
fi
if [[ ! "$ref" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$ ]]; then
echo "::error::inputs.agent_ref contains invalid characters: $ref"
exit 1
fi

echo "SAFE_AGENT_REF=$ref" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
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- name: Checkout dev-lead scripts
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
repository: petry-projects/.github-private
# Pinned channel (e.g. dev-lead/stable) when a trigger stub passes it;
# defaults to "main" → unchanged behaviour (#535/#506).
ref: ${{ inputs.agent_ref }}
ref: ${{ env.SAFE_AGENT_REF }}
path: .dev-lead
# Cross-repo callers: github.token cannot read a private org repo — ensure
# GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS is set as an org or repo secret in the calling repo.
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