VNX-GH-206: Branch protection can be bypassed
Administrators are exempt, or a broad role or app is a ruleset bypass actor.
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, vulnetix gha audit |
| Needs | repo, branches. Without them the rule is reported as not evaluated, never as passed. |
Remediation
Enforce protection for administrators and limit ruleset bypass to a named break-glass team with pull-request-only bypass.
Run only this rule
vulnetix gha settings --rule VNX-GH-206Scoring
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.
All rules: GitHub rules.