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Repo includes Adobe Flash file which cause intelligent firewall to block zipball download by GitHub Actions

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, security

Research direction

Start by inspecting node_modules/node-forge/flash and the dependency tree that brings node-forge into the repository. Reproduce the GitHub Actions zipball download and verify that the resulting archive no longer contains the Adobe Flash file and can be scanned by the on-premises CodeQL setup.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

This repo currently includes an .swf (Adobe Flash) file thanks to one of the NPM packages that is pulled into the node_modules tree: node-forge.

Located at: node_modules/node-forge/flash

At our company, our intelligent firewall scans inside the zip file during the zipball download of the repo by GitHub Actions, detects the .swf file and blocks the entire download. As a result, we're unable to do CodeQL scanning on an on-prem server.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
1.6k
Forks
493
Avg merge
1d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
44

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