VNX-GH-206 – Branch protection can be bypassed

Overview

An exemption is a standing path around review. Admin accounts and app installations are the highest-value credentials to steal precisely because they skip the controls.

Severity: Medium | Confidence: high | CWE: CWE-284, CWE-863 | Command: vulnetix gha settings

Needs: repo, branches. Without them the rule is reported as not evaluated.

Remediation

Enforce protection for administrators and limit ruleset bypass to a named break-glass team with pull-request-only bypass.

Scoring

CWSS vector at the rule’s default severity: CWSS:1.0/TI:M/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.