GitHub
TMA-GITHUB-1.3.2
Ensure team creation is limited to specific members
Description
Limit ability to create teams to trusted and specific users. The ability to create new teams should be restricted to specific members in order to keep the organization orderly and ensure users have access to only the lowest privilege level necessary. Reported as a manual review item: no reliable read-only gh api check exists for this control.
How it is checked
Audit method: Manual review
For every organization, ensure that team creation is limited to specific, trusted users by performing the following: 1. In the top right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. 2. Next to the organization, click Settings. 3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Member privileges. 4. Under "Team creation rules", verify that Allow members to create teams is not selected.
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
For every organization, limit team creation to specific, trusted users by performing the following: 1. In the top right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. 2. Next to the organization, click Settings. 3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Member privileges. 4. Under "Team creation rules", deselect Allow members to create teams. 5. Click Save.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- githubsource-code
- Reference
- CIS GitHub Benchmark v1.2.0 - 1.3.2 Ensure team creation is limited to specific members