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Closes #607.

The defect

A CycloneDX SBOM describes exactly one root filesystem. The operator and agent images are multi-platform, and both attested a single SBOM to the index digest, so it honestly described neither child. A consumer who resolves linux/amd64 and enumerates referrers on that manifest finds nothing at all.

The evidence layout after this change

Evidence Subject Why
Signature Index It is what a user pulls, and what admission control resolves a tag to
SLSA provenance Index Describes the build, not one filesystem
CycloneDX SBOM Each platform manifest One SBOM, one root filesystem
OpenVEX Each platform manifest A VEX claim verifies only when its product identifier binds to the manifest it covers

The Helm chart is unchanged: one OCI artifact with no platform children, so there is nothing to split.

What is here

Path Role
.github/actions/cosign-attest-multiplatform/ Resolves platform digests, builds per-platform SBOMs, binds and validates the VEX, signs the index, attests to each platform
.github/actions/setup-crane/ Checksum-pinned binary install, matching setup-oras
.github/workflows/tools-ci.yaml Runs make test for the new module
tools/cmd/openvex/ One binary, bind and validate subcommands
tools/internal/openvex/ The logic, 113 assertions
tools/tests/ Nested module pinning the release evidence policy

Fails closed, deliberately

Nothing in the attest path can be exercised before merge: cosign attest needs a real OIDC token and push access to ghcr.io. The first release tag after this merges is the first true run. Everything is therefore written to fail rather than proceed on an assumption.

Platform resolution rejects three distinct cases, and only the first is caught by crane itself:

  1. A malformed digest.
  2. A platform digest equal to the index digest. crane digest --platform exits 0 on a plain manifest and returns that manifest's own digest, so equality means the image is single-arch. Verified by running the real script against a real single-arch manifest.
  3. Two platforms resolving to the same digest, meaning a platform was lost or the index was resolved twice.

The SBOM's bomFormat is asserted before anything is signed, because cosign attest --type cyclonedx stamps https://cyclonedx.org/bom on whatever it is handed: a wrong format that announces itself as right is worse than a missing one.

Binding a non-empty .openvex.json to zero statements now fails the release. That is the silent failure this document is exposed to: the guard passes (an empty array is valid), a signed "no exceptions" VEX ships, and the maintainer who wrote the statement believes a CVE is suppressed when nothing suppresses it. The same mismatch also no-ops the grype vex: input, so it fails twice and reports neither.

New patterns, called out per CONTRIBUTING

A tools Go module, plus a nested tools/tests module. The repo already has two modules (operator, agent/go), so a third is not novel; the nesting is. The reason is specific: tools/go.mod has zero third-party dependencies, which is what lets the release job run go run ./cmd/openvex with only a toolchain and no module download. The policy tests need a YAML parser, so they live in a nested module that the parent cannot see.

A golden file for the evidence layout. tools/tests/releasepolicy/testdata/evidence-layout.golden renders what the release publishes, so a moved subject appears as a readable one-line diff. The rules that must not be silently regenerated (attestation subjects, cosign flags, version pins) are asserted by hand in release_workflow_test.go, where -update cannot reach them. This was checked: regenerating the golden against a deliberately broken action still leaves the hard assertion failing.

Scope beyond the issue

This touches the chart release path. cosign-sign-sbom was out of scope, but leaving it on the installer's default cosign while cosign-verify-release hard-pins v3.0.6 and passes --new-bundle-format=true is what would break a chart release the next time Renovate bumps the installer SHA. It is now pinned, flagged and timeout-bounded, and a test asserts all three pins agree.

Cosign v3.0.6 is pinned rather than v3.1.x because the flag is MarkDeprecated there, and because it is what cosign-installer at the SHA this repo already pins resolves to, so all three actions install one cosign per release run.

Docs

SECURITY.md previously said: "Take the top-level manifest digest... Do not substitute one of the per-platform digests; those are children of the index and will not verify."

That instruction now splits rather than inverts, which is subtler than either version: signature and provenance verify on the index, SBOM and VEX on a platform manifest. A reader who takes away "use the platform digest now" fails to verify the signature; one who keeps using only the index fails to find the SBOM. docs/contributing/release-process.md carried the same assumption and is updated in step.

Verification

  • make -C tools test green across both modules
  • actionlint -shellcheck= (the CI invocation) and yamllint both exit 0
  • crane digest --platform behavior confirmed against the live operator image
  • ghcr.io's missing OCI 1.1 referrers endpoint confirmed by request (404), which is why the docs use cosign rather than a raw referrers call
  • Policy assertions proven to catch a moved subject, a disagreeing pin, and a dropped bundle-format flag

Depends on

#627, now merged. Related: #628, #629, #630, #631.

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The PR adds OpenVEX validation and binding tools, a multiplatform attestation action, pinned crane setup, and platform-aware release verification. Image workflows now sign indexes and attest CycloneDX and OpenVEX documents to each platform manifest. Release-policy tests validate digest wiring, command ordering, timeouts, and bundle flags. CI, Make targets, and release documentation now cover the new tooling and evidence layout.

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Release-policy regressions could evade the intended checks, and the suppression guidance incorrectly says OpenVEX attestations are not published. These issues should be corrected before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely states the primary change: attaching SBOM and VEX attestations to each platform manifest.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the defect, evidence layout, implementation, fail-closed behavior, testing, documentation updates, and scope of the changes.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The reviewed head satisfies the coding requirements in #607. The new composite action resolves distinct amd64 and arm64 manifest digests and fails closed for missing, index-equal, duplicate, malformed…
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🟡 Minor · Update the stale `#607` statement in "Suppressing a finding". · release-process.md:585

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Update the stale #607 statement in "Suppressing a finding".

This section still states that #607 has not shipped and that nothing attests .openvex.json today. This PR implements #607 and attests the OpenVEX document to every platform manifest, as the new "Which digest carries which evidence" section documents. A reader who follows the current text will conclude that a UI dismissal is still harmless.

Rewrite the sentence to state that the document is now published as signed evidence on each platform manifest, and keep the rule that suppression lives only in .openvex.json.

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In `@docs/contributing/release-process.md` at line 585, Update the “Suppressing a
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A CycloneDX SBOM describes exactly one root filesystem. Attached to a
multi-platform index it honestly describes neither child, and a consumer
who resolves linux/amd64 and enumerates referrers on that manifest finds
nothing. The operator and agent images were doing exactly that.

Adds a composite action that resolves each platform's child manifest with
`crane digest --platform`, generates a per-platform SBOM, projects
.openvex.json onto that platform's digest, and attests both to the manifest
they describe. The signature and SLSA provenance stay on the index, which is
what a user pulls and what admission control resolves a tag to.

Resolution fails closed three ways: a malformed digest, a platform digest
equal to the index digest (crane returns a plain manifest's own digest, so
equality means the image is single-arch), and two platforms resolving to the
same digest. Only the first is caught by crane itself.

Every cosign call now pins --new-bundle-format=true and is bounded by a
timeout, and the cosign version is pinned across all three actions that run
it. The chart's signing path is included: leaving it on the installer's
default while verification hard-pins a version is what would break a release
the next time the installer SHA moves.

Adds a `tools` module holding `openvex`, a two-subcommand binary that binds
the committed document to a platform digest and validates it against the
OpenVEX v0.2.0 contract. It has no third-party dependencies on purpose, so
the release job runs it with a toolchain and no module download. Source mode
accepts an empty statements array, which is a deliberate divergence from the
sibling implementation in NVIDIA/aicr: this document is legitimately empty,
because every finding measured on the released images is genuinely present
and genuinely fixable.

A nested `tools/tests` module pins the evidence policy. The layout is
rendered to a golden file so a moved subject shows up as a readable diff,
and the rules that must not be silently regenerated (subjects, cosign flags,
version pins) are asserted by hand where `-update` cannot reach them.

SECURITY.md previously told readers to use the index digest and explicitly
not the per-platform ones. That instruction now splits rather than inverts:
signature and provenance verify on the index, SBOM and VEX on a platform
manifest. Getting that half right leaves a reader unable to verify anything.

Closes #607

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
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