Environment
| action | Description | Sample | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| environment. | A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was created via the API. | Y | N |
| environment. | Y | N | |
| environment. | A secret was created for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | Y |
| environment. | A variable was created for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | N |
| environment. | An environment was deleted. | Y | Y |
| environment. | A secret was deleted for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | N |
| environment. | A variable was deleted for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | N |
| environment. | A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was deleted via the API. | Y | N |
| environment. | A secret was updated for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | N |
| environment. | A variable was updated for a GitHub Actions environment. | Y | N |
| environment. | A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was updated via the API. | Y | N |
environment.add_protection_rule
#Description
A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was created via the API.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000054,
"actor_id": 9000055,
"created_at": 1784226407873.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.add_protection_rule",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000056,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "create",
"environment_name": "example-label-98",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.create
#Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000057,
"created_at": 1785262630948.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"action": "environment.create",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000058,
"user_agent": "actions-run-service/9165d2b",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "create",
"environment_name": "copilot"
}
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environment.create_actions_secret
#Description
A secret was created for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference. Full rule details for this event, including ATT&CK technique mappings and native queries →Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000059,
"actor_id": 9000060,
"created_at": 1785181441198.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.create_actions_secret",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000061,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "create",
"environment_name": "master",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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Sigma #
T1078, T1078.004References #
environment.create_actions_variable
#Description
A variable was created for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000062,
"actor_id": 9000063,
"created_at": 1784817201182.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.create_actions_variable",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000064,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "create",
"environment_name": "example-label-133",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.delete
#Description
An environment was deleted.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference. Full rule details for this event, including ATT&CK technique mappings and native queries →Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000062,
"actor_id": 9000063,
"created_at": 1784817150081.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.delete",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000065,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "remove",
"environment_name": "example-label-97",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
Detection Rules #
Sigma #
T1213, T1213.003References #
environment.remove_actions_secret
#Description
A secret was deleted for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000059,
"actor_id": 9000060,
"created_at": 1785182443164.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.remove_actions_secret",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000066,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "remove",
"environment_name": "master",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.remove_actions_variable
#Description
A variable was deleted for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"@timestamp": 1783958483783,
"_document_id": "U1lOX0RPQ18wMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMTk=",
"action": "environment.remove_actions_variable",
"actor": "user",
"actor_id": 9000002,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"business": "example-business",
"business_id": 9000003,
"created_at": 1783958483783,
"environment_name": "dw-harn-env",
"hashed_token": "U1lOVEhFVElDX1RPS0VOX0hBU0hfMDAwMQ==",
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"operation_type": "remove",
"org": "example-org",
"org_id": 9000004,
"programmatic_access_type": "Personal access token (classic)",
"public_repo": false,
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"repo_id": 9000009,
"request_access_security_header": null,
"request_id": "DB80:205095:E71DEAB:EBF300D:6A550BD3",
"token_id": 9000006,
"token_scopes": "admin:enterprise,admin:gpg_key,admin:org,admin:org_hook,admin:public_key,admin:repo_hook,admin:ssh_signing_key,audit_log,codespace,copilot,delete:packages,delete_repo,gist,notifications,project,repo,user,workflow,write:discussion,write:network_configurations,write:packages",
"user_agent": "python-requests/2.34.2"
}
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environment.remove_protection_rule
#Description
A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was deleted via the API.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000067,
"actor_id": 9000068,
"created_at": 1781721354490.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.remove_protection_rule",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000069,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "remove",
"environment_name": "example-label-96",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.update_actions_secret
#Description
A secret was updated for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000008,
"repo_id": 9000070,
"actor_id": 9000071,
"created_at": 1781189279135.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.update_actions_secret",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000072,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "modify",
"environment_name": "example-label-95",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.update_actions_variable
#Description
A variable was updated for a GitHub Actions environment.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000062,
"actor_id": 9000063,
"created_at": 1784817054329.0,
"business_id": 9000005,
"public_repo": false,
"actor_is_bot": false,
"key": "DEPLOY_SYNTHETIC",
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.update_actions_variable",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"request_id": 9000073,
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ip-redacted Safari/537.36",
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"operation_type": "modify",
"environment_name": "example-label-134",
"external_identity_nameid": "user",
"external_identity_username": "user"
}
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environment.update_protection_rule
#Description
A GitHub Actions deployment protection rule was updated via the API.
Documented on GitHub's enterprise audit log reference.Example Audit Log Entry #
{
"org_id": 9000002,
"repo_id": 9000074,
"actor_id": 9000075,
"business_id": 9000005,
"environment_id": 9000076,
"prevent_self_review": false,
"org": "example-org",
"repo": "user/example-repo",
"actor": "user",
"action": "environment.update_protection_rule",
"actor_ip": "ip-redacted",
"business": "example-business",
"approvers": [
{
"team": "example-org-1/example-team-1",
"team_id": 9000077
}
],
"request_id": 9000078,
"user_agent": "go-github/v88.0.0",
"hashed_token": "U1lOVEhFVElDX1RPS0VOX0hBU0hfMDAwNw==",
"approvers_was": [
{
"team": "example-org-1/example-team-1",
"team_id": 9000077
},
{
"user": "user",
"user_id": 9000079
}
],
"actor_location": {
"country_code": "XX"
},
"environment_name": "dep",
"programmatic_access_type": "GitHub App server-to-server token"
}
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