VNX-GH-306 – Organisation secret visible to every repository

Overview

A secret shared with all repositories is only as safe as the weakest workflow in the organisation. With visibility all, public repositories’ workflows can read it too.

Severity: Medium | Confidence: high | CWE: CWE-200, CWE-668 | Command: vulnetix gha org

Needs: org. Without them the rule is reported as not evaluated.

Remediation

Set the secret’s visibility to selected repositories, or private repositories at most.

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:H/EX:M/EC:N/P:W. A finding whose severity the repository’s settings moved is scored at its adjusted severity.