AZDO.1019: Stage chooser.
| ID | AZDO.1019 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Azure DevOps |
| Feature | Pipelines |
| Security area | Engineering systems |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | Medium |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Reads from | Azure DevOps |
| Further reading | https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/security/overview?view=azure-devops |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”Users should not be able to skip stages defined by the pipeline author.
Rationale: Users should not be able to select stages to skip from the Queue Pipeline panel.
Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”Enable the restriction to prevent users from skipping stages.
- Sign in to your organization.
- Choose Organization settings.
- Select Settings under Pipelines, locate the “Disable stage chooser” policy and toggle it to on.
Related links
Section titled “Related links”Mito check. Author: SebastianClaesson. Open-source licences.
Open-source licences. CIS Benchmark material © Center for Internet Security, Inc.; CISA SCuBA baselines are public domain (CC0).
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