VNX-GH-210: Fork pull request workflows run without approval

Outside contributors' pull requests run workflows without a maintainer approving them, or private-repo forks get secrets or write tokens.

Updated 02 Nov 2026Checked against cli@24498404a, vdb-sca-match@v0.8.14

Approval is the human check before an outsider’s code runs on your runners. Only requiring it for accounts new to GitHub lets any established account, or a bought one, run code immediately. On private repositories, sending secrets or write tokens to fork workflows hands them to every fork.


Severity	Medium
Confidence	high
CWE	CWE-862
Command	`vulnetix gha settings`, `vulnetix gha audit`
Needs	repo, actions policy. Without them the rule is reported as not evaluated, never as passed.

Remediation

Require approval for all outside collaborators; on private repositories, do not send write tokens or secrets to fork pull request workflows.

Run only this rule

vulnetix gha settings --rule VNX-GH-210

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

All rules: GitHub rules.

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