chore: Set permissions for GitHub actions (#4765)

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: neilnaveen <42328488+neilnaveen@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Jay <jasonsaayman@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     branches: [master, 'v*']
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/stale.yml

@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ on:
   schedule:
     - cron: '0 0 * * 1'
 
+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:
       - name: Close Stale Issues