fix(ci): patch three harden-runner advisories and stop the action pins drifting

[mattinannt]

What & why

Was: step-security/harden-runner was pinned to v2.13.0 in both workflows, below the fix line for three published advisories.

Advisory	CVE	Severity	Fixed in	Applies here?
GHSA-cpmj-h4f6-r6pq	CVE-2026-25598	Moderate	2.14.2	Yes, directly
GHSA-g699-3x6g-wm3g	CVE-2026-32946	Moderate	2.16.0	Latent
GHSA-46g3-37rh-v698	CVE-2026-32947	Moderate	2.16.0	Latent

CVE-2026-25598 is the one that bites today: outbound connections made with sendto/sendmsg/sendmmsg evade audit logging, and the advisory scopes that specifically to egress-policy: audit — the mode both workflows run. The audit trail we rely on to see what a workflow talked to could be silently incomplete. The other two are egress-policy bypasses that only apply under egress-policy: block, so they are latent here rather than live; the upgrade clears them either way.

Now: v2.21.1 across both workflows, which also picks up the global block list added in v2.19.0 (blocks known-malicious endpoints even in audit mode).

Scope of the audit

I checked the whole dependency surface, not just the actions:

• Swift Package Manager — Package.swift declares zero third-party dependencies.
• CocoaPods — the podspec declares zero dependencies.
• Source imports — Foundation, UIKit, SwiftUI, WebKit, JavaScriptCore, Network, SafariServices, XCTest. All first-party Apple frameworks, no vendored code.
• GitHub Actions — 5 actions, the only ecosystem Dependabot could flag. One vulnerable, above.

So the SDK ships no vulnerable code to customers. This is entirely CI-side.

Note

I could not read the repo's actual Dependabot alert list — this session's GitHub token has no security_events scope, so GET /repos/formbricks/ios/dependabot/alerts returns 403. The table above is from querying OSV for each pinned action at its pinned version, which is the same advisory data Dependabot uses. Worth someone with repo admin confirming the alert list matches once this lands. If GitHub is showing alerts I could not see, they would have to be in an ecosystem I found no manifest for.

Where to look

• .github/workflows/sonarqube.yml, .github/workflows/publish-pod.yml — the pins
• .github/dependabot.yml — new, see below

The other bumps

No advisory against any of them, but they had drifted, so they ride along in the same sweep:

Action	From	To
actions/checkout	4.2.2	7.0.1
maxim-lobanov/setup-xcode	1.6.0	1.7.0
ruby/setup-ruby	1.263.0	1.321.0
SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action	6.0.0	unchanged — see below

Why the checkout major jump is safe

• v5 — moved to node24. GitHub-hosted macos-15 / macos-latest supply it.
• v6 — persists credentials to a separate file instead of inline.
• v7 — blocks fork-PR checkout under pull_request_target and workflow_run. Neither workflow uses either trigger (sonarqube.yml is push/pull_request/merge_group/workflow_dispatch; publish-pod.yml is release), so this is a no-op for us.

Only input in use is fetch-depth: 0, unchanged across all three majors. CI has now confirmed this — the run reaches ** TEST SUCCEEDED **.

sonarqube-scan-action stays on v6.0.0, and that's a finding

I first bumped it to v8.2.1, because v8 GPG-verifies the scanner binary it downloads and that step runs a fetched binary with SONAR_TOKEN in its environment. CI rejected it, and the reason is worth knowing:

Importing SonarSource public key from hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com...
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Invalid argument
Attempting fallback keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org...
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Invalid argument
##[error]Action failed: Failed to import SonarSource public key from all keyservers.

Both keyservers fail identically in under a second, so it is not a timeout or an outage. The scanner zip and its .asc both downloaded fine, so egress is not blocked. dirmngr resolves keyservers via SRV records — the harden-runner log shows it querying _pgpkey-https._tcp.<host> against the DNS proxy on 192.168.64.1:53 — and that proxy does not answer them. sonarqube-scan-action v8's signature verification is incompatible with harden-runner on macOS runners.

Not fixable from the workflow: egress-policy is already audit, so allowed-endpoints changes nothing, and the action gives no way to supply the key inline. skipSignatureVerification: true would keep v8 while discarding the only reason to be on v8 — worse than just staying on v6.

So the pin stays at v6.0.0 with a comment explaining why, so nobody re-bumps it blindly. Nothing security-relevant is given up: v6.0.0 already contains the fixes for CVE-2025-58178 and CVE-2025-59844 (the args-injection pair — and the args: here are static anyway), and OSV reports it clean.

Root cause: there was no .github/dependabot.yml

Every action here is SHA-pinned, which is the right posture — but a pinned SHA never moves on its own. An advisory published against a pinned action stays live until a human repins it. With no Dependabot config, nobody was told, and the pins drifted eight minor versions into three open advisories.

The new config groups routine bumps into one weekly PR (security updates still open individually). Dependabot reads the # vX.Y.Z comment beside each SHA and repins the SHA and the comment together, so the pinning discipline survives.

No Swift entry — there is nothing to track, per the audit above. Noted in the file so the next person doesn't wonder.

I deliberately did not add an ignore rule for sonarqube-scan-action v8. Dependabot will re-propose it and CI will fail the same way, which is the correct outcome: it stays visible until StepSecurity or SonarSource fixes the interaction, rather than being silently suppressed forever.

One extra hardening

gem install cocoapods → gem install cocoapods -v 1.17.0.

That job holds COCOAPODS_TRUNK_TOKEN and runs only on a release, where an unpinned latest is resolved at publish time with no CI having exercised it first. 1.17.0 is what latest resolves to today, so this changes nothing now and makes the release reproducible.

Trade-off worth flagging: this pin has no automation behind it (Dependabot needs a Gemfile to track a gem, and adding one for a single gem install is more machinery than it is worth). Happy to drop this hunk if you'd rather not own a manual pin — it is independent of the security fix.

Coverage

Check	Level
All three harden-runner advisories cleared	OSV query against v2.21.1 — clean
Remaining four pins carry no advisory at their pinned version	OSV query — all clean
Every SHA resolves to the tag its comment claims	git ls-remote refs/tags/<tag> per action — 7/7 match
All three YAML files parse	yaml.safe_load
checkout v7.0.1 + setup-xcode v1.7.0 build and test this project	CI — reached ** TEST SUCCEEDED **
sonarqube-scan-action v8 incompatibility	CI — reproduced, diagnosed, reverted

Open gap

publish-pod.yml gets no CI coverage at all — it triggers on release, so its four changes (harden-runner, checkout, ruby, the cocoapods pin) are verified by inspection only and will first execute on the next release. That is the weakest part of this PR and the hunk most worth a careful read. harden-runner and checkout at these exact SHAs are exercised by the SonarQube workflow, so the residual risk is concentrated in ruby/setup-ruby v1.321.0 and the gem pin.

Breaking changes

• This is a breaking change

No SDK code touched. No public API change, no change to what ships to customers — Sources/ and Package.swift are untouched.

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Walkthrough

Added weekly Dependabot updates for GitHub Actions. Updated pinned action versions in the publish and SonarQube workflows. The publish workflow now installs CocoaPods 1.17.0 explicitly. Workflow inputs and other described behavior remain unchanged.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 691da

The dependency updates introduce no concrete blocking risk; the remaining read-only token hardening opportunity predates this change.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary CI security fix and the related action pin maintenance. It is concise and specific.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the CI security updates, Dependabot configuration, dependency pinning, validation, and scope. It is relevant to the changeset.

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