Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
elastic/apm-agent-go
main @ c34d17b
3
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
33.3%
Coverage
Highlights
Privilege Escalation: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
.github/workflows/updatecli.yml: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Privilege Escalation: Overly permissive default workflow tokens (GITHUB_TOKEN) allowed actions to run with elevated privileges, exposing the repository to privilege escalation if any action was compromised. The risk was addressed by explicitly declaring restrictive top-level permissions.
Privilege Escalation: Using a long-lived repository secret token for automated dependency updates posed a risk of token leakage and unauthorized access. This was mitigated by moving to ephemeral, minimally-scoped GitHub App tokens.
Auth Bypass: When running in FIPS compliance mode, allowing custom configurations to bypass certificate verification or configure weak TLS settings undermines the cryptographic guarantees required by the runtime environment.