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Change Vulnerability Status - Customizable Permissions

Problem to solve

Today users don't have the ability to separate out the duties between the engineering security teams in a way that adheres to the Principle of Least Privilege. Security teams need to be able to change the vulnerability status, but don't necessarily need to make changes directly to a code base.

Intended users

Proposal

  1. Add the following customer permissions to a custom role (built on top of the Reporter role as a base):
    1. Change vulnerability status - admin_*
  2. Today users can change the vulnerability status if they have Developer or higher permissions. This change removes the requirement of a Developer role and requires the permission Change vulnerability status.
  3. Remove the following permission from the current Developer and Maintainer roles:
    1. Change vulnerability status Note: this is a breaking change.
  4. Create a rake task that adds Change vulnerability status to either the Developer and Maintainer roles for Ultimate customers using customizable permissions that want this permission re-added to this role after the change.

Further details

  • The new customizable roles framework permissions is additive only. Instead of Change vulnerability status permission included as a part of both the Developer and Maintainer roles, users will need to do something like Reporter + Change vulnerability status.
  • admin_* is the equivalent of read/write, while read_* is the equivalent of read only.

Documentation

Availability & Testing

Available Tier

GitLab Ultimate

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Edited by Alana Bellucci