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[uk-ai-resilience] Stale code-scanning alert #653 not dismissed despite remediated actionlint/gosec binaries (Tier C) #57728

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Tier and Risk-Scoring Summary

Tier: C — Restricted Pending Review (process gap, not a live vulnerability)

Dimension Score
Exposure Amplification Low
Patchability High (process fix only)
Detectability Low (masked by noise — 40 open security-labeled issues, mostly recurring automated bot reports)
Operational Fragility Medium (alert fatigue risk)
Ownership Confidence Low (no clear alert-lifecycle owner)

Finding

Code-scanning alert #653 (workflow-out-of-context, Malicious Code Scanner) remains open, but it references ~78MB of actionlint/gosec binaries originally committed via PR #48979. These binaries were verified (via git ls-files) to no longer exist in the current tree, and at least 6 remediation issues addressing this exact finding are already closed: #52527, #53738, #50602, #50617, #52540, #53764.

This indicates the code-scanning alert was never dismissed/closed after the underlying issue was remediated — a triage/dismissal process gap, not a security defect. Left unaddressed, this contributes to alert fatigue: with 40 open security-labeled issues (many recurring automated reports from sighthound, vulnhunter, static-analysis, container-image-scan, domains-audit workflows), stale alerts like this dilute signal-to-action ratio and risk masking genuinely new findings.

Remediation Action

  • Dismiss/close alert #653 as fixed (binaries removed, confirmed via git ls-files).
  • Add a process check (e.g., in the code-scanning-fixer or a periodic housekeeping workflow) to auto-verify and dismiss alerts once their linked remediation issue is closed, to prevent recurrence of stale open alerts.

SLA Urgency: Medium

Discussion Report

Full UK AI Open Code Risk & Resilience governance report: see the linked discussion "UK AI Governance: Weekly Resilience Report — 2026-09-01" created in this same workflow run.

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