Wire bandit and pip-audit into CI#1209
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bandit, pip-audit, and safety are already declared in the dev dependency group but nothing in CI invokes them, so a new HIGH-severity finding or a newly-disclosed CVE in a pinned dep can land without anyone noticing until the next manual audit. Add a security-scan job that runs bandit (-ll, HIGH-severity only) and pip-audit (--strict) on every push and PR. Marked continue-on-error so this doesn't block PRs on pre-existing findings -- a follow-up should do the cleanup pass and flip the flag. safety intentionally omitted: it requires a free-tier API key for the new commercial backend, which is a setup burden for forks. pip-audit covers the same ground using the PyPI JSON advisory feed and OSV.
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The concept is right — non-blocking rollout with continue-on-error: true is the correct approach given the current state of findings. But there are three bugs in the implementation that need fixing before this lands.
Bug 1 — bandit ignores [tool.bandit] config
# current
run: bandit -r graphify -ll
# fix
run: bandit -r graphify -c pyproject.toml -llbandit does not auto-discover [tool.bandit] from pyproject.toml — -c must be passed explicitly. Without it, the skips = ["B404"] setting is silently ignored and the job surfaces 10 B404 false positives on every run. I verified this locally: with -c pyproject.toml, B404 is correctly suppressed.
Bug 2 — pip-audit misses 6 of 7 real CVEs
# current
run: uv sync --frozen
# fix
run: uv sync --all-extras --frozenThe test job already uses --all-extras --frozen — this job should match. Without it, pip-audit audits only the base environment and misses the mcp extra entirely, which is where the real findings live:
- pyjwt — 4 CVEs (in
mcpextra) - starlette — 2 CVEs (in
mcpextra)
With the current setup, the job reports 1 finding (the pip bootstrap tool, not even a shipped dep). With --all-extras, it reports 7. The job as written gives false confidence.
Bug 3 — severity flag mislabeled
The PR description says -ll = "HIGH-severity only" but per bandit --help, -ll is MEDIUM and higher (-lll is HIGH-only). The flag itself is probably fine (MEDIUM+ is a reasonable threshold), but the description needs correcting — or if HIGH-only was the actual intent, change to -lll.
Fix the three items above and this is good to merge. One heads-up: once --all-extras is in place, pip-audit will start surfacing the pyjwt/starlette CVEs on every run. Worth resolving those before flipping continue-on-error to false in a follow-up.
bandit,pip-audit, andsafetyare already declared in the[dependency-groups].devtable but nothing in.github/workflows/ci.ymlinvokes them. So a new HIGH-severity bandit finding or a freshly-disclosed CVE in a pinned dep can land without anyone noticing until the next manual audit.Adds a
security-scanjob that runs on every push and PR:bandit -r graphify -ll(HIGH-severity only -- LOW/MEDIUM is noisy without a tuned config)pip-audit --strict(against the committed lock viauv sync)Marked
continue-on-error: truefor now so this doesn't block PRs on pre-existing findings. A follow-up should do the cleanup pass and flip the flag to blocking.safetyintentionally omitted -- it now requires a free-tier API key for its commercial backend, which is a setup burden for forks and CI.pip-auditcovers the same ground via the PyPI JSON advisory feed and OSV.Test plan
[tool.bandit]skip (B404) is honored.uv.lockfrom the new job.🤖 Generated with Claude Code