Restrict [actions].DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL to only github or self (#25581) (#25604)

Backport #25581 by @wolfogre

Resolve #24789

## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️

Before this, `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` cound be set to any custom URLs like
`https://gitea.com` or `http://your-git-server,https://gitea.com`, and
the default value was `https://gitea.com`.

But now, `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` supports only
`github`(`https://github.com`) or `self`(the root url of current Gitea
instance), and the default value is `github`.

If it has configured with a URL, an error log will be displayed and it
will fallback to `github`.

Actually, what we really want to do is always make it
`https://github.com`, however, this may not be acceptable for some
instances of internal use, so there's extra support for `self`, but no
more, even `https://gitea.com`.

Please note that `uses: https://xxx/yyy/zzz` always works and it does
exactly what it is supposed to do.

Although it's breaking, I belive it should be backported to `v1.20` due
to some security issues.

Follow-up on the runner side:

- https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/262
- https://gitea.com/gitea/act/pulls/70

Co-authored-by: Jason Song <i@wolfogre.com>

custom/conf/app.example.ini

@@ -2541,8 +2541,8 @@ LEVEL = Info
 ;; Enable/Disable actions capabilities
 ;ENABLED = false
 ;;
-;; Default address to get action plugins, e.g. the default value means downloading from "https://gitea.com/actions/checkout" for "uses: actions/checkout@v3"
-;DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = https://gitea.com
+;; Default platform to get action plugins, `github` for `https://github.com`, `self` for the current Gitea instance.
+;DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = github
 
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

docs/content/doc/administration/config-cheat-sheet.en-us.md

@@ -1374,39 +1374,22 @@ PROXY_HOSTS = *.github.com
 ## Actions (`actions`)
 
 - `ENABLED`: **false**: Enable/Disable actions capabilities
-- `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL`: **https://gitea.com**: Default address to get action plugins, e.g. the default value means downloading from "<https://gitea.com/actions/checkout>" for "uses: actions/checkout@v3"
+- `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL`: **github**: Default platform to get action plugins, `github` for `https://github.com`, `self` for the current Gitea instance.
 - `STORAGE_TYPE`: **local**: Storage type for actions logs, `local` for local disk or `minio` for s3 compatible object storage service, default is `local` or other name defined with `[storage.xxx]`
 - `MINIO_BASE_PATH`: **actions_log/**: Minio base path on the bucket only available when STORAGE_TYPE is `minio`
 
-`DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` indicates where should we find the relative path action plugin. i.e. when use an action in a workflow file like
+`DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` indicates where the Gitea Actions runners should find the actions with relative path.
+For example, `uses: actions/checkout@v3` means `https://github.com/actions/checkout@v3` since the value of `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` is `github`.
+And it can be changed to `self` to make it `root_url_of_your_gitea/actions/checkout@v3`.
 
-```yaml
-name: versions
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - releases/*
-jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-```
+Please note that using `self` is not recommended for most cases, as it could make names globally ambiguous.
+Additionally, it requires you to mirror all the actions you need to your Gitea instance, which may not be worth it.
+Therefore, please use `self` only if you understand what you are doing.
 
-Now we need to know how to get actions/checkout, this configuration is the default git server to get it. That means we will get the repository via git clone ${DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL}/actions/checkout and fetch tag v3.
-
-To help people who don't want to mirror these actions in their git instances, the default value is https://gitea.com
-To help people run actions totally in their network, they can change the value and copy all necessary action repositories into their git server.
-
-Of course we should support the form in future PRs like
-
-```yaml
-steps:
-  - uses: gitea.com/actions/checkout@v3
-```
-
-although Github don't support this form.
+In earlier versions (<= 1.19), `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL` cound be set to any custom URLs like `https://gitea.com` or `http://your-git-server,https://gitea.com`, and the default value was `https://gitea.com`.
+However, later updates removed those options, and now the only options are `github` and `self`, with the default value being `github`.
+However, if you want to use actions from other git server, you can use a complete URL in `uses` field, it's supported by Gitea (but not GitHub).
+Like `uses: https://gitea.com/actions/checkout@v3` or `uses: http://your-git-server/actions/checkout@v3`.
 
 ## Other (`other`)
 

modules/setting/actions.go

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ package setting
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/log"
 )
 
 // Actions settings
@@ -13,13 +16,36 @@ var (
 		LogStorage        *Storage // how the created logs should be stored
 		ArtifactStorage   *Storage // how the created artifacts should be stored
 		Enabled           bool
-		DefaultActionsURL string `ini:"DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL"`
+		DefaultActionsURL defaultActionsURL `ini:"DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL"`
 	}{
 		Enabled:           false,
-		DefaultActionsURL: "https://gitea.com",
+		DefaultActionsURL: defaultActionsURLGitHub,
 	}
 )
 
+type defaultActionsURL string
+
+func (url defaultActionsURL) URL() string {
+	switch url {
+	case defaultActionsURLGitHub:
+		return "https://github.com"
+	case defaultActionsURLSelf:
+		return strings.TrimSuffix(AppURL, "/")
+	default:
+		// This should never happen, but just in case, use GitHub as fallback
+		return "https://github.com"
+	}
+}
+
+const (
+	defaultActionsURLGitHub = "github" // https://github.com
+	defaultActionsURLSelf   = "self"   // the root URL of the self-hosted Gitea instance
+	// DefaultActionsURL only supports GitHub and the self-hosted Gitea.
+	// It's intentionally not supported more, so please be cautious before adding more like "gitea" or "gitlab".
+	// If you get some trouble with `uses: username/action_name@version` in your workflow,
+	// please consider to use `uses: https://the_url_you_want_to_use/username/action_name@version` instead.
+)
+
 func loadActionsFrom(rootCfg ConfigProvider) error {
 	sec := rootCfg.Section("actions")
 	err := sec.MapTo(&Actions)
@@ -27,6 +53,19 @@ func loadActionsFrom(rootCfg ConfigProvider) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to map Actions settings: %v", err)
 	}
 
+	if urls := string(Actions.DefaultActionsURL); urls != defaultActionsURLGitHub && urls != defaultActionsURLSelf {
+		url := strings.Split(urls, ",")[0]
+		if strings.HasPrefix(url, "https://") || strings.HasPrefix(url, "http://") {
+			log.Error("[actions] DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL does not support %q as custom URL any longer, fallback to %q",
+				urls,
+				defaultActionsURLGitHub,
+			)
+			Actions.DefaultActionsURL = defaultActionsURLGitHub
+		} else {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unsupported [actions] DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL: %q", urls)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// don't support to read configuration from [actions]
 	Actions.LogStorage, err = getStorage(rootCfg, "actions_log", "", nil)
 	if err != nil {

modules/setting/actions_test.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func Test_getStorageInheritNameSectionTypeForActions(t *testing.T) {
@@ -95,3 +96,86 @@ STORAGE_TYPE = minio
 	assert.EqualValues(t, "local", Actions.ArtifactStorage.Type)
 	assert.EqualValues(t, "actions_artifacts", filepath.Base(Actions.ArtifactStorage.Path))
 }
+
+func Test_getDefaultActionsURLForActions(t *testing.T) {
+	oldActions := Actions
+	oldAppURL := AppURL
+	defer func() {
+		Actions = oldActions
+		AppURL = oldAppURL
+	}()
+
+	AppURL = "http://test_get_default_actions_url_for_actions:3000/"
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name    string
+		iniStr  string
+		wantErr assert.ErrorAssertionFunc
+		wantURL string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "default",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.NoError,
+			wantURL: "https://github.com",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "github",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = github
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.NoError,
+			wantURL: "https://github.com",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "self",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = self
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.NoError,
+			wantURL: "http://test_get_default_actions_url_for_actions:3000",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "custom url",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = https://gitea.com
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.NoError,
+			wantURL: "https://github.com",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "custom urls",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = https://gitea.com,https://github.com
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.NoError,
+			wantURL: "https://github.com",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "invalid",
+			iniStr: `
+[actions]
+DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL = gitea
+`,
+			wantErr: assert.Error,
+			wantURL: "https://github.com",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			cfg, err := NewConfigProviderFromData(tt.iniStr)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			if !tt.wantErr(t, loadActionsFrom(cfg)) {
+				return
+			}
+			assert.EqualValues(t, tt.wantURL, Actions.DefaultActionsURL.URL())
+		})
+	}
+}

routers/api/actions/runner/utils.go

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func generateTaskContext(t *actions_model.ActionTask) *structpb.Struct {
 		"workspace":         "",                                                   // string, The default working directory on the runner for steps, and the default location of your repository when using the checkout action.
 
 		// additional contexts
-		"gitea_default_actions_url": setting.Actions.DefaultActionsURL,
+		"gitea_default_actions_url": setting.Actions.DefaultActionsURL.URL(),
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Error("structpb.NewStruct failed: %v", err)