Enabling MetaMask security code scanner

[metamaskbot]

Automated PR

This is automated Pull Request by Application Security team.
Please reach out to @mm-application-security slack if you have any feedback or comments.

Note

If you close this PR without merging, please leave a comment indicating the reason, and we will not attempt to create a new one automatically.
If you later decide to enable the Security Code Scanner, please contact the Application Security team.

Required Action

Prior to merging this pull request, please ensure the following has been completed:

• The lines specifying branches correctly specifies this repository's default branch (usually main).
• Any paths you would like to ignore have been added to the paths_ignored configuration option (see setup)
• Any existing CodeQL configuration has been disabled.

What is the Security Code Scanner?

This pull request enables the MetaMask Security Code Scanner GitHub Action. This action runs on each pull request, and will flag potential vulnerabilities as a review comment. It will also scan this repository's default branch, and log any findings in this repository's Code Scanning Alerts Tab.

The action itself runs various static analysis engines behind the scenes. Currently, it is only running GitHub's CodeQL engine. For this reason, we recommend disabling any existing CodeQL configuration your repository may have.

How do I interact with the tool?

Every finding raised by the Security Code Scanner will present context behind the potential vulnerability identified, and allow the developer to fix, or dismiss it.

The finding will automatically be dismissed by pushing a commit that fixes the identified issue, or by manually dismissing the alert using the button in GitHub's UI. If dismissing an alert manually, please add any additional context surrounding the reason for dismissal, as this informs our decision to disable, or improve any poor performing rules.

For more configuration options, please review the tool's README.
For any additional questions, please reach out to @mm-application-security slack.

[github-advanced-security]

This pull request sets up GitHub code scanning for this repository. Once the scans have completed and the checks have passed, the analysis results for this pull request branch will appear on this overview. Once you merge this pull request, the 'Security' tab will show more code scanning analysis results (for example, for the default branch). Depending on your configuration and choice of analysis tool, future pull requests will be annotated with code scanning analysis results. For more information about GitHub code scanning, check out the documentation.