GitHub Action error Resource not accessible by integration when attempting to upload SARIF report files to GitHub

Just a very quick blog post to show a potential fix for GitHub Action error Resource not accessible by integration when attempting to upload SARIF report files to GitHub, I came across this when attempting to use GitHub action github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3

GitHub Action usage

Was trying to upload a SARIF report from kube-linter with the simple action:

      - name: Upload SARIF report files to GitHub
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3

Initial error

Snippet from the error output:

Run github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
RequestError [HttpError]: Resource not accessible by integration
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v3/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:86:21
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async requestWithGraphqlErrorHandling (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v3/node_modules/@octokit/plugin-retry/dist-node/index.js:71:20)
  }
}
Error: Resource not accessible by integration

The fix

Quite a simple on this time to fix, the issue was that the default permissions granted to the GITHUB_TOKEN that runs the workflow had only read repository permissions, in this I am wanting to write to the repository.

To fix and resolve:

• Go to the effected GitHub repository to where the error is happening
• Select Settings -> Actions -> General
• Change to read and write permissions

A super quick blog post – hopefully it will assist you!