How to fix 403 error in Github actions CI/CD

In this short post, you will see how to fix one of the errors that you may see when configuring CI/CD based on Github actions for your Java Spring boot application. To be precise, you will learn, how to fix the 403 error in Github actions CI/CD in the Update dependency graph step. The error message you see, will look something like,

HTTP Status 403 for request POST https://<your-api-url>/dependency-graph/snapshots

Fix 403 error in Github actions CI/CD

The solution to this is quite simple. Go to Settings -> Actions -> General -> Workflow permissions -> Select Read and write permissions option. Have a look at the screenshot below to see what you need to do

Notice, how in the above screenshot “Read repository contents and packages permissions” option is selected in the Workflow permissions section and not the Read and write permissions option.

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