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go.mod has pinned toolchain go1.26.6 since #40, but setup-go exports GOTOOLCHAIN=local, which makes that directive inert, so the 1.26.x wildcard resolved to the go1.26.5 already in the runner tool cache and goreleaser built v2.0.0 with it. GOTOOLCHAIN=auto restores the pin. golang.org/x/text goes to v0.41.0 for the ninth finding.

The second commit adds a daily Trivy scan of main and, separately, of the published image, since main can be clean while a released tag rots, which is what happened here. Findings go to one tracking issue that closes itself once a scan comes back clean.

Note this fixes how releases are built, not the image already out there: :latest stays vulnerable until a tag is cut.

Fixes #49

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  • New Features

    • Added automated scheduled and on-demand security scans for source code and container images.
    • Security findings are summarized and tracked automatically, with updates when vulnerabilities change and closure when scans are clean.
    • Scan results and supporting reports are retained as downloadable workflow artifacts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved build and release consistency by automatically using the toolchain version defined by the project.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for vulnerability reporting, including issue updates, clean scans, missing data, and formatting.
alekc added 2 commits August 17, 2026 11:38
setup-go exports GOTOOLCHAIN=local, so the go.mod toolchain directive was inert and the
1.26.x wildcard resolved to the go1.26.5 already sitting in the runner tool cache.
goreleaser compiled v2.0.0 with 1.26.5 while go.mod pinned go1.26.6, and the release
Dockerfile only repacks that tarball, so the published image shipped eight HIGH stdlib
CVEs. GOTOOLCHAIN=auto restores the pin on the release build and on the PR checks, so
what is tested and what is shipped agree.

Also bumps golang.org/x/text to v0.41.0 for CVE-2026-56852. MVS pulls the rest of the
golang.org/x family along with it.

Fixes: #49
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
A daily Trivy sweep plus a govulncheck reachability pass, reporting through a single
deduplicated tracking issue that is rewritten in place when the finding set changes and
closes itself once a scan comes back clean.

The published image is scanned separately from main because main can be clean while a
released tag rots, which is precisely what #49 was: go.mod pinned go1.26.6 and the
shipped binary was still built with 1.26.5, so a main-only scan would have stayed green
throughout.

Findings are triaged by a report job that cannot run on partial data, so a failed scan
can never close the tracking issue by reporting a clean result it never established.

Refs: #49
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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The pull request adds scheduled and manual vulnerability scanning for Go binaries and container images. It aggregates findings into a GitHub tracking issue, adds Bash regression tests, aligns CI toolchain selection, and upgrades indirect Go modules.

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Security scanning and CVE reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
CI toolchain and module alignment
.github/workflows/pr.yaml, .github/workflows/release.yml, go.mod
Verification and release builds use GOTOOLCHAIN=auto. Several indirect golang.org/x/* modules are upgraded.
Vulnerability scan pipeline
.github/workflows/security-scan.yaml
The workflow runs govulncheck and Trivy for current and released images, normalizes findings, and uploads artifacts.
CVE tracking issue orchestration
.github/workflows/security-scan.yaml, hack/cve-report.sh
The report job downloads findings and manages a labeled tracking issue for new, changed, unchanged, and clean scan results.
CVE report regression coverage
.github/workflows/pr.yaml, hack/cve-report_test.sh
The test suite validates issue lifecycle behavior, digest stability, invalid inputs, missing fragments, and Markdown table escaping.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 99257

This change updates release toolchain selection and adds automated vulnerability reporting, but it can still build with a different Go version than intended and can overwrite or close the wrong tracking issue under certain scan runs. The PR is not merge-ready until those bounded workflow and reporting risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant SecurityScan as security-scan workflow
  participant Govulncheck
  participant Trivy
  participant FindingsArtifacts as findings artifacts
  participant ReportJob as report job
  participant CveReport as hack/cve-report.sh
  participant GitHubIssues as GitHub Issues
  SecurityScan->>Govulncheck: analyze current command
  Govulncheck->>FindingsArtifacts: upload Go findings
  SecurityScan->>Trivy: scan current and released images
  Trivy->>FindingsArtifacts: upload image findings
  ReportJob->>FindingsArtifacts: download combined findings
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  CveReport->>GitHubIssues: create, update, comment, or close tracking issue
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/pr.yaml:
- Around line 16-24: Enforce Go 1.26.6 exactly rather than allowing automatic
toolchain selection: update .github/workflows/pr.yaml lines 16-24 for Build,
Vet, and Test, line 57 for govulncheck, and .github/workflows/release.yml lines
80-83 for GoReleaser to pin or validate the selected toolchain before execution.
Apply the same exact-version enforcement to
.github/workflows/security-scan.yaml.

In @.github/workflows/security-scan.yaml:
- Around line 7-10: Restrict the report job in the security-scan workflow to
runs targeting the repository’s default branch, while allowing scheduled and
manual scans themselves to proceed. Update the report job’s condition using the
workflow’s branch/ref context so non-default workflow_dispatch runs cannot
modify the central tracking issue.

In `@hack/cve-report.sh`:
- Around line 48-50: Update the issue lookup in the CVE report script to select
only the generated tracking issue using its digest marker or another unique
identifier, rather than the first open issue with the cve-scan label. Detect and
fail when multiple tracking issues match, and add a regression case covering an
unrelated issue that shares the label.
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workflow_dispatch runs on any branch the caller picks, and the report job would then
rewrite or close the shared tracking issue from a branch scan. A feature branch that
happened to be clean could close an issue tracking real findings on main, which is the
same false-clean failure the missing `if: always()` already guards against. Gate the job
on the default branch.

The issue lookup matched on the cve-scan label alone, so a human labelling an unrelated
issue would see it silently overwritten or closed. Match on the digest marker this script
writes instead, and refuse when more than one tracking issue matches rather than guessing.

Refs: #49
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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The docker ecosystem was missing entirely, so a CVE in the golang: builder or the
distroless runtime base was invisible to Dependabot and only surfaced in the image scan
added by #50.

golang.org/x/* is now grouped because minimal version selection pulls the whole family in
behind any one member; #50 moved seven of them to bump x/text alone, so ungrouped bumps
arrive as several PRs editing the same go.mod lines. The actions are grouped for a
different reason: they are independent of each other, but a bump apiece costs a full CI
run each.

Every group is declared twice, once per applies-to. Groups default to version-updates, so
security updates would otherwise arrive ungrouped once they are switched on.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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