fix(security): narrow the app tenants' publish matchers to their approved revisions by devantler · Pull Request #4020 · devantler-tech/platform

devantler · 2026-09-21T14:44:36Z

Why

The two apps that serve real users, the wedding site and the coaching site, still accepted a release signed by any version of the shared publishing workflow, including superseded ones. Every other consumer is already tied to the versions the platform has approved, so these two were the gap.

What

Both apps now accept only their approved versions: the one that signed the running release, the one they are pinned to, and the newest published release. This is now safe because each app already refuses to move its pin until the platform has approved the new version. A new version therefore holds the update rather than breaking a release.

Fixes #3917

…oved revisions wedding-app and ascoachingogvaner accepted any 40-hex publish-app.yaml revision, including superseded ones. They now name their approved set: the applied signer, the default-branch pin and the latest released actions revision. Each tenant's required check already holds a pin move until the platform approves it, so narrowing cannot strand a release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

devantler · 2026-09-21T14:45:14Z

Tried as a user, at acede63a.

Writer on the real tree: write-publish-workflow-matchers.sh changed exactly two manifests, the wedding-app and ascoachingogvaner OCIRepositories. Each moved from @[0-9a-f]{40} to its three approved revisions. The enforcing guard (APPROVED_REVISIONS_ENFORCE=1) passes on all 4 consumers, and the shape guard passes on all 7 shared-workflow subjects.
The running releases stay accepted. Read-only against prod, Flux serves wedding-app@sha256:4f5eb100… and ascoachingogvaner@sha256:1016e41f…. Both digests equal the approved set's recorded applied_digest, and each recorded signer (759ff9b2, a147ead8) is in that tenant's new subject.
Not observed directly: a direct cosign verification of the signatures. The local token lacks package read, and I did not widen it.

Tests.

RED on the previous scripts: 13 guard cases and the writer suite fail.
GREEN now: all guard and writer cases, plus the regeneration (1 control + 45 ablations), shape-guard, signing-revision and digest-gate suites.
Removing the grouping rule fails only the ungrouped-alternation case.

…tenant sets The authorization fingerprint projects an exact publish-workflow revision set back to the approved 40-hex pattern, but only recognised up to two revisions. A publish-app tenant's set also carries the release candidate, so it now recognises up to three there; publish-manifests consumers stay at two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

devantler · 2026-09-21T14:53:11Z

Update at dd42bce3.

🔐 Validate Production Authorization failed at acede63a with unapproved rendered authorization surface fingerprint. The authorization fingerprint maps an exact publish-workflow revision set back to the approved [0-9a-f]{40} pattern, so regenerating the set never needs a re-approval. But it only recognised up to two revisions, and a tenant's set now has three.

The root-cause fix is in the projection, not a fingerprint refresh:

It now recognises up to 3 revisions for publish-app consumers (signer, pin, release candidate). publish-manifests consumers stay at 2.
A 3-revision set is still a strict subset of the pattern the authorization approval already covers.
The projection test adds the 3-way subset for both tenants, and a set one larger than each workflow carries still moves the fingerprint. All 253 validator tests pass, including TestValidateAuthorizationAcceptsCommittedPolicy, the test that failed in CI.

🧪 Validate Manifests failed on an upstream curl … 504 while downloading a supply-chain tool, which is transient. This push re-runs it.

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k8s/bases/apps/ascoachingogvaner/oci-repository.yaml
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scripts/guard-publish-workflow-approved-revisions.sh
scripts/publish-workflow-approved-revisions.lib.sh
scripts/tests/test-publish-workflow-approved-revisions-guard.sh
scripts/tests/test-write-publish-workflow-matchers.sh
scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/publish_matcher_projection.go
scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/publish_matcher_projection_test.go
scripts/write-publish-workflow-matchers.sh

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The change removes the trusted release-stream exception for application tenants. Approved records now include a release-candidate revision for publish-app. Shell helpers generate and validate exact approved revision sets, and the guard enforces them for every consumer. The matcher writer uses these sets and supports up to three publish-app revisions. Both application manifests now list exact workflow commits. Tests cover missing, extra, duplicate, ungrouped, and reordered revisions.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dd42b

The runtime allowlists are correctly narrowed, but the adjacent documentation describes the old security policy. Update it before merging to prevent misleading future matcher maintenance.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes narrowing the app tenants' publish matchers to approved revisions, which is the main change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains why the two app tenants needed narrower publish matchers and what approved revisions they now accept.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue `#3917` requires both app tenants to reject unapproved workflow revisions, or to document a compensating control. The reviewed manifests now allow only three generated revisions for each tenant. T…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain connected to issue `#3917`. The guard, approved-revision library, writer, and their tests enforce and verify the narrowed tenant matchers. The projection change permits the generated …
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 7 files. (2 skipped: 2…

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🟡 Minor · Update the obsolete matcher comments. · oci-repository.yaml:19-22

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In `@k8s/bases/apps/ascoachingogvaner/oci-repository.yaml`:
- Around line 19-22: Update the matcher comments in both OCI repository
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k8s/bases/apps/ascoachingogvaner/oci-repository.yaml
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scripts/guard-publish-workflow-approved-revisions.sh
scripts/publish-workflow-approved-revisions.lib.sh
scripts/tests/test-publish-workflow-approved-revisions-guard.sh
scripts/tests/test-write-publish-workflow-matchers.sh
scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/publish_matcher_projection.go
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File: .github/workflows/ci.yaml:622-659
Timestamp: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
Learning: Repository shell tests and scripts must remain compatible with macOS Bash 3.2. Do not use Bash 4+ features such as `mapfile`; use portable constructs, such as a `while IFS= read -r` loop, instead.

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… are The comments still described the former any-commit matcher and its accepted residual risk; both subjects now accept only the approved revisions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

devantler · 2026-09-21T17:33:36Z

Resolution record for the outside-diff finding in #4020 (review) (obsolete matcher comments, both app manifests): fixed in 849b6bd. The comments no longer describe the former any-commit matcher or its accepted residual risk; they now say the subject is written from the approved set and accepts only the approved revisions (signer, current pin, release candidate). Comment-only change: the rendered authorization aggregate is unchanged (committed approval test passes locally), and the approved-revisions guard, writer test and guard test all pass.

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devantler · 2026-09-21T18:09:52Z

The push to 849b6bdc changes only the two manifests' comments (the CodeRabbit outside-diff finding); the matchers, and so the behaviour evaluated above at dd42bce3, are byte-identical, and the approved-revisions guard still reports all four consumers in agreement. Bugbot is green at this head.

Platform now lists the approved publish-app.yaml revisions explicitly in the manually declared tenant's cosign subject (devantler-tech/platform#4020). The envelope test compared the old wildcard verbatim and failed. Check the shape instead: an alternation of full 40-hex SHAs, no wildcard. Fixes #196 Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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security(supply-chain): the app tenants' publish matchers still accept any workflow revision #3917

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fix(ci): retry brief download failures when installing supply-chain tools #4024

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Scaffold validation is red since platform lists approved publish revisions explicitly devantler-tech/platform-tenant-template#196

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