Set permissions for GitHub actions (#2563)

Restrict the GitHub token permissions only to the required ones; this way, even if the attackers will succeed in compromising your workflow, they won’t be able to do much.

- Included permissions for the action. https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#token-permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs

[Keeping your GitHub Actions and workflows secure Part 1: Preventing pwn requests](https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/)

Signed-off-by: naveensrinivasan <172697+naveensrinivasan@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit c7ceeb7)

.github/workflows/close_stale.yml

@@ -2,8 +2,14 @@ name: "Close stale issues"
 on:
   schedule:
   - cron: "0 0 * * *"
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   stale:
+    permissions:
+      issues: write  # for actions/stale to close stale issues
+      pull-requests: write  # for actions/stale to close stale PRs
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - uses: actions/stale@v5.0.0

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ on:
     - release/4.1.x
     - release/4.2.x
     - release/5.0.x
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   release:
     runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'