Organization owned immutable actions raise warning about unpinned 3rd party actions tag

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
security

Research direction

Start with actions/ql/src/Security/CWE-829/UnpinnedActionsTag.ql, especially lines 1-12 linked in the issue, and inspect how the warning describes organization-owned immutable actions. Reproduce or examine that case, then verify that the warning wording and behavior accurately match the affected actions.

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Description

false-positive

This CodeQL warning is great, but its language specifically says 3rd party actions, but my actions are getting warnings even when they're immutable and owned by my organization.

https://github.com/github/codeql/blob/28b6aa8616a393ebb45186e3ba4df004a0f3ef4e/actions/ql/src/Security/CWE-829/UnpinnedActionsTag.ql#L1-L12

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