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Overview

Add an optional artifacts input so configuration scans can use a reviewed, vendored Kubescape policy bundle through --use-artifacts- from.

This provides reproducible policy and rule evaluation when the action, Kubescape version, manifests, and artifact bundle are pinned. Existing workflows continue downloading live policies when artifacts is not specified.

Changes

  • Expose a workspace-relative artifacts action input.
  • Validate that the directory exists and resolves inside the GitHub workspace.
  • Reject absolute paths, workspace escapes, and use with image scans.
  • Safely escape artifact paths before constructing the Kubescape command.
  • Continue forwarding account, exceptions, and controls configuration inputs.
  • Document artifact generation, version-dependent override behavior, and reproducibility boundaries.
  • Add an automated entrypoint regression workflow.

Compatibility

Kubescape v4.0.13 gives explicit exceptions and controlsConfig inputs precedence over files in the artifact bundle. Older versions such as v3.0.21 prefer the bundle copies. Both combinations remain supported and their behavior is documented.

When account credentials are supplied, they are still forwarded, while the vendored directory remains the policy source.

Verification

  • bash -n entrypoint.sh
  • bash -n tests/entrypoint_test.sh
  • Entry point regression suite: 12 passed, 0 failed
  • YAML parsing for action.yml and the new test workflow
  • git diff --check
  • Docker build using Kubescape v4.0.13
  • Two successful scans with networking disabled and identical normalized results
  • Backward-compatible network-enabled scan without artifacts

The offline verification evaluated 20 NSA controls with consistent results across both runs.

Closes #80

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an optional artifacts input for configuration-scan policy data.
    • Supports workspace-relative, vendored Kubescape artifacts for reproducible evaluations.
    • Validates artifact paths and prevents incompatible image-scan configurations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance and examples for reproducible policy evaluations, including version pinning and input compatibility.
    • Updated the pull request review workflow example with safer checkout and read-only permissions.
  • Tests

    • Added automated coverage for artifact handling, path validation, argument forwarding, and command-injection protection.
    • Added continuous integration checks for entrypoint syntax and behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Chaudhary <chaudharygaurav2004@gmail.com>
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The action adds an optional vendored Kubescape artifacts input. The entrypoint validates and resolves the path, forwards it to Kubescape, and adds tests for valid paths, invalid paths, input forwarding, and command-injection safety. GitHub Actions runs these tests.

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Reproducible policy evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Artifacts input contract and documentation
action.yml, README.md
The action declares artifacts and passes it to the container. The README documents artifact paths, reproducible evaluation, and related input behavior.
Artifacts validation and scan forwarding
entrypoint.sh
The entrypoint rejects invalid, escaping, missing, absolute, or image-scan artifact paths. Valid paths are passed with --use-artifacts-from.
Validation coverage and continuous testing
tests/entrypoint_test.sh, tests/action_test.sh, .github/workflows/test.yaml
Tests cover forwarding, path validation, input combinations, and command-injection safety. GitHub Actions runs syntax checks and both test suites.
Pull request review checkout configuration
.github/workflows/example-fix-pr-review.yaml, README.md
The example workflow checks out the pull request head commit with read-only permissions, disabled credential persistence, and explicit unsafe checkout opt-in.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow
  participant GitHubAction
  participant entrypoint.sh
  participant Kubescape
  Workflow->>GitHubAction: Set artifacts and scan inputs
  GitHubAction->>entrypoint.sh: Provide INPUT_ARTIFACTS
  entrypoint.sh->>entrypoint.sh: Validate and resolve artifact directory
  entrypoint.sh->>Kubescape: Run scan with --use-artifacts-from
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Suggested reviewers: matthyx

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to de691

The updated example review workflow relies on a legitimate but newly-backported actions/checkout input that the pinned actionlint version does not yet recognize, so anyone running actionlint validation will see a failure on this file until the tool or its metadata is updated. Additionally, one of the new command-injection safety tests checks the wrong directory for a marker file, so it could pass even if an injected command executed elsewhere in the repository checkout. Neither issue affects the core artifacts-forwarding feature, but both should be addressed before merge to keep CI validation and security test coverage reliable.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The changes to .github/workflows/example-fix-pr-review.yaml upgrade actions/checkout, change the checkout reference, add permissions, disable persisted credentials, and enable unsafe PR checkout. … Remove the unrelated workflow checkout and permission changes, or link them to a separate issue and keep them out of this pull request.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 3 files. (4 skipped: 4… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding support for vendored Kubescape artifacts.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #80 requires a caller-provided artifact directory and forwarding through --use-artifacts-from. action.yml exposes artifacts and passes it through INPUT_ARTIFACTS. entrypoint.sh rejects…
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The changes to .github/workflows/example-fix-pr-review.yaml upgrade actions/checkout, change the checkout reference, add permissions, disable persisted credentials, and enable unsafe PR checkout. These changes do not implement artifact input handling, Kubescape policy reproducibility, or the required entrypoint behavior. The available evidence does not connect this workflow security change to issue #80.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 3 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

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In `@action.yml`:
- Line 162: Update the step invoking entrypoint.sh so inputs.artifacts is passed
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Blocking: inputs.artifacts is interpolated directly into the generated Bash script in action.yml. A value such as "; <command>; # can terminate the quoted docker run argument and execute on the runner before entrypoint.sh performs any path validation.

Please pass ${{ inputs.artifacts }} through the step-level env map, then use the shell variable in the command (for example, -e INPUT_ARTIFACTS="$INPUT_ARTIFACTS"). Please also add coverage at the composite-action command-construction boundary; the current injection test invokes entrypoint.sh directly, so it cannot detect this pre-entrypoint expansion.

I ran the entrypoint suite (12/12 passing), Bash syntax checks, workflow actionlint, and git diff --check. I did not find another blocker, but this command-injection path needs to be fixed before merge.

@matthyx matthyx moved this to Waiting on Author in KS PRs tracking Sep 9, 2026
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In @.github/workflows/example-fix-pr-review.yaml:
- Line 22: Update the actionlint metadata or validator configuration for
actions/checkout@v5 so allow-unsafe-pr-checkout is recognized as a valid input,
while preserving the workflow’s existing setting and ensuring repository
validation passes.

In `@tests/action_test.sh`:
- Line 50: Run the generated script from ${test_root} before validating its
effects by wrapping the existing PATH, DOCKER_ARGS_FILE, INPUT_ARTIFACTS, and
bash invocation in a subshell that first changes to ${test_root}; preserve the
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ref: ${{github.event.pull_request.head.sha}}
repository: ${{github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name}}
persist-credentials: false
allow-unsafe-pr-checkout: true

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Update the actionlint metadata for this input.

actionlint 1.7.12 reports allow-unsafe-pr-checkout as undefined for actions/checkout@v5. Update the validator or its action metadata so this workflow passes repository validation.

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[error] 22-22: input "allow-unsafe-pr-checkout" is not defined in action "actions/checkout@v5". available inputs are "clean", "fetch-depth", "fetch-tags", "filter", "github-server-url", "lfs", "path", "persist-credentials", "ref", "repository", "set-safe-directory", "show-progress", "sparse-checkout", "sparse-checkout-cone-mode", "ssh-key", "ssh-known-hosts", "ssh-strict", "ssh-user", "submodules", "token"

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@matthyx Thank you for the detailed review. I’ve addressed the blocking security issue and the subsequent CodeRabbit feedback in commits de69126 and 2c7b3ae.

Changes made:

  • Moved ${{ inputs.artifacts }} into the composite step’s env map.
  • The Docker command now passes it as -e INPUT_ARTIFACTS="$INPUT_ARTIFACTS", preventing GitHub expression interpolation from altering the generated shell script.
  • Added regression coverage at the composite-action command-construction boundary using an artifact value containing shell metacharacters.
  • Updated the test to execute from its temporary directory so any unexpected touch PWNED effect is checked in the correct location.
  • Updated the PR-review checkout configuration to use actions/checkout@v5, the immutable PR head SHA, persist-credentials: false, and the required fork-checkout opt-in.
  • Added a narrowly scoped actionlint 1.7.12 configuration for the valid allow-unsafe-pr-checkout input, whose metadata is not yet recognized by that validator version.

Local verification completed:

  • bash -n passed.
  • Entrypoint regression suite: 12 passed, 0 failed.
  • Composite-action command-construction test: 1 passed, 0 failed.
  • actionlint 1.7.12 passed for the affected PR-review workflow.
  • YAML parsing and git diff --check passed.
  • DCO and GitGuardian checks are passing.

The remaining kubescape-fix-pr-reviews failure is not caused by a missing API key. The pull_request_target event loads its workflow from the base repository’s main branch, which still contains actions/checkout@v3. The run fails during checkout, and the Kubescape step is skipped. The corrected workflow is already present in this PR, but it cannot affect its own pull_request_target run until the workflow update reaches main.

Could you please review the updated changes again and approve the pending workflows? If the checkout check remains blocking, the workflow update will need to be landed on main separately or the stale check overridden by a maintainer.

Thank you!

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The original inputs.artifacts injection blocker is fixed: the value now crosses the composite-action boundary through env, and the new regression test detects reintroduction of direct expression interpolation. The entrypoint suite (12/12), action boundary test (1/1), Bash syntax checks, targeted actionlint, and git diff --check all pass locally.

There is a new security blocker in .github/workflows/example-fix-pr-review.yaml: allow-unsafe-pr-checkout: true explicitly checks attacker-controlled fork contents out in a pull_request_target job that has the base repository token and Kubescape credentials. The workflow then passes tj-actions/changed-files@v35's attacker-controlled all_changed_files output into this action's files input, and action.yml still interpolates ${{ inputs.files }} directly into the generated Bash script.

I reproduced command execution using a fork filename evil\"; touch PWNED; #.yaml. changed-files@v35/git diff --name-only emits "evil\\\"; touch PWNED; #.yaml"; substituting that value at the current INPUT_FILES="${{ inputs.files }}" line executes touch PWNED on the trusted runner before the container starts.

Please do not opt back into unsafe fork checkout in this privileged workflow until attacker-controlled values are data-only across the runner-shell boundary. Prefer running fork-content analysis under pull_request without secrets/write permissions and separating any privileged posting step; if this pull_request_target design must remain, at minimum pass files through step-level env (with regression coverage using a malicious filename) and audit the remaining direct ${{ inputs.* }} shell interpolations before enabling the checkout.

The currently failing kubescape-fix-pr-reviews check is the default-branch pull_request_target workflow being blocked by actions/checkout; bypassing that guard without closing the downstream injection path is not safe to merge.

@matthyx matthyx moved this from Needs Reviewer to Waiting on Author in KS PRs tracking Sep 18, 2026
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entrypoint computes --use-artifacts-from and then discards it, so a pinned action still evaluates live rules

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