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Why

v0.9.0 (binaries and Docker images) was built on go1.27.1 on 2026-10-08. go1.27.2 was released the same day and fixes ten standard library advisories that govulncheck reports as reachable from our code. Checked on the artefacts themselves: go version on the binary inside ghcr.io/upellift99/gatecha:0.9.0 and on gatecha_0.9.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz both answer go1.27.1. Scanning the tree with that toolchain gives 10 findings, with go1.27.2 it gives 0.

Nothing flagged it because the govulncheck job in test.yml installs the newest patch (check-latest: true), so it goes green again the moment a patch exists, while the published release keeps the stdlib it was linked against. Dependabot does not see the standard library at all.

Real exposure

GateCHA serves plain HTTP/1.1 (ListenAndServe, no TLS, no h2c) and has no outbound HTTP client, so most of the ten do not apply to a running instance:

• Applies: GO-2026-6609, CPU exhaustion from a Range header with many small ranges. The dashboard is served by http.FileServer, reachable without authentication. A reverse proxy forwards Range as is, so being behind one does not help.
• Does not apply: the four HTTP/2 server advisories (6617, 6612, 6611, 6603) and the HTTP/2 transport one (6610) since HTTP/2 is never enabled, the crypto/tls ECH one (6607) since the process terminates no TLS, the client CONNECT one (6605) since there is no client, the multipart one (6608) since no handler parses multipart forms, and the server CONNECT one (6613) since no handler answers 2xx to CONNECT.

So this is one unauthenticated denial of service on the dashboard's static files, not a data exposure. Worth a release, not an emergency rollout.

What changes

• New Release Vulncheck workflow, daily plus manual. It downloads the latest release's linux/amd64 archive, reads the Go version recorded in the binary (this survives the -s -w strip), checks out the release tag, installs that exact Go patch and runs govulncheck ./... with GOTOOLCHAIN=local. Red means "cut a release to rebuild".
• CLAUDE.md: one more known constraint explaining why a green govulncheck on main says nothing about the latest release.

No Go or frontend code changes. The fix: type is deliberate: it makes release-please open 0.9.1, and building that tag today picks up go1.27.2 in both the goreleaser job and the golang:1.27-alpine image (verified: the tag now resolves to go1.27.2).

Verification

• The version detection step was run locally against the v0.9.0 archive and prints 1.27.1.
• GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.27.1 go run golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck@latest ./... exits 3 with 10 findings, the same command with go1.27.2 reports none.
• The workflow has no pull_request trigger on purpose: against v0.9.0 it is expected to fail. It will be dispatched once 0.9.1 is published to confirm it goes green.

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  • Added a daily security scan of the latest release, with an option to run it manually.
  • Documented how to interpret scan results and when a new release may be needed.

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Walkthrough

A scheduled and manually dispatchable GitHub Actions workflow now scans the latest release tag with govulncheck. It derives the Go version from the release binary, builds the frontend assets, and documents how to interpret the scan result.

Changes

Release vulnerability scanning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schedule and identify the release .github/workflows/release-vulncheck.yml	The workflow runs daily or on manual dispatch. It retrieves the latest release tag and Linux amd64 archive, then reads the Go version recorded in the binary.
Prepare the release build context .github/workflows/release-vulncheck.yml	The workflow checks out the release tag, configures its recorded Go version, and builds and copies the frontend assets.
Scan the release and document results .github/workflows/release-vulncheck.yml, CLAUDE.md	The workflow installs govulncheck v1.6.0 and scans ./... with GOTOOLCHAIN=local. CLAUDE.md distinguishes this release scan from the main-branch scan and states that a new release is the remedy if the release scan reports vulnerabilities.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseVulncheck as Release Vulncheck workflow
  participant LatestRelease as Latest GitHub release
  participant Gatecha as gatecha binary
  participant Govulncheck as govulncheck
  ReleaseVulncheck->>LatestRelease: Retrieve release tag and Linux amd64 archive
  LatestRelease-->>ReleaseVulncheck: Return tag and archive
  ReleaseVulncheck->>Gatecha: Read recorded Go version
  Gatecha-->>ReleaseVulncheck: Return Go version
  ReleaseVulncheck->>Govulncheck: Scan ./... with GOTOOLCHAIN=local

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The new release scan workflow should run as intended. The updated guidance should clarify that only standard-library findings can be fixed by rebuilding. Dependency findings need a dependency update or a code change.

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