VNX-GH-008 – Excessive token permissions

Overview

write-all grants every scope including actions, packages, pages and id-token. Workflow-level write scopes apply to every job, including jobs that run untrusted code or third-party actions.

Severity: Medium | Confidence: high | CWE: CWE-250, CWE-732 | Command: vulnetix gha workflows

Remediation

Use permissions: {} at the workflow level and grant each job only the specific scopes it needs.

Scoring

CWSS vector at the rule’s default severity: CWSS:1.0/TI:H/AP:A/AL:A/IC:N/FC:LT/RP:N/RL:A/AV:I/AS:N/IN:A/SC:A/BI:H/DI:M/EX:L/EC:N/P:W. A finding whose severity the repository’s settings moved is scored at its adjusted severity.