Set restrictive GitHub Action permissions (#1985)

* chore: Set permissions for GitHub actions

Restrict the GitHub token permissions only to the required ones; this way, even if the attackers will succeed in compromising your workflow, they won’t be able to do much.

* Remove global permissions which are set implicitly

With restrictive settings in the global GitHub Action permission settings
those permissions are given implicitly.

Co-authored-by: neilnaveen <42328488+neilnaveen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Joakim Sørensen <hi@ludeeus.dev>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>

.github/workflows/dev.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-dev-build') }}
     name: Prepare build
     runs-on: [ "ubuntu-20.04" ]
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: read
     outputs:
       version_main: ${{ steps.version_main.outputs.version_main }}
       version_dev: ${{ steps.version_dev.outputs.version_dev }}${{ steps.version_pr.outputs.version_pr }}

.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   update_release_draft:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for release-drafter/release-drafter to create a github release
+      pull-requests: read  # for release-drafter/release-drafter to read PR content and labels
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v5

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ jobs:
             return { "board": boards }
 
   build:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for actions/upload-release-asset to upload release asset
     name: Release build for ${{ matrix.board.id }}
     needs: validate_release
     strategy:

.github/workflows/stale.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   stale:
+    permissions:
+      issues: write  # for actions/stale to close stale issues
+      pull-requests: write  # for actions/stale to close stale PRs
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       # The 90 day stale policy