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Permissions filtering for organization fine-grained PATs

Organization administrators can now filter fine-grained personal access tokens (PATs) by their permissions in the organization settings UI. Both pending token requests and active tokens can be filtered by permission, such as issues_write and members_read.

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After setting a filter, only tokens with that permission will be shown in the table.

To learn more about fine-grained PATs, see "Reviewing fine-grained personal access tokens" and "Managing requests for fine-grained personal access tokens".

Fixed bug that allowed OAuth tokens improper access to SAML SSO protected organization resources when used with the `/issues` API endpoint

On September 15, 2022, we fixed a bug on GitHub.com that allowed OAuth tokens (such as personal access tokens) to bypass SAML single sign-on (SSO) requirements to view organization issue data using the /issues GitHub API endpoint.

The SAML SSO bypass could only happen when the token owner was a member of a SAML SSO protected organization, had the necessary permissions to view the issue data, and was using an OAuth token that was not authorized for use with SAML SSO. Integrations using an OAuth token matching the above criteria would also bypass SAML SSO requirements when making requests to the /issues API endpoint.

The accessible data included the title, body, labels, and assignee of the issue, but did not include comments on the issue itself. The bug did not allow organization members to view repository, issue, or other organization data that they did not have permission to view.

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High-impact package maintainers now require 2FA

Starting today, two-factor authentication (2FA) will be enforced for maintainers of all high-impact npm packages. A package is marked as a high impact package when they have more than 1 million weekly downloads or have more than 500 dependents. Maintainers of such packages will be notified 15 days in advance to enroll for 2FA.

To learn more about configuring 2FA, see Configuring two-factor authentication.
To learn more about 2FA in general, see About two-factor authentication.
For questions and comments, open a discussion in our feedback repository.

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