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User Permission Charts

All user permissions in detail

Updated over 9 months ago

Role Permission Chart

This chart is intended to list all permissions related to a Product or Product Type, as well as which permissions are available to each role.

Section

Permission

Reader

Writer

Maintainer

Owner

API Imp

Product / Product Type Access

View assigned Product or Product Type ¹

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View nested Products, Engagements, Tests, Findings, Endpoints

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Add new Products (within assigned Product Type) ²

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Delete assigned Products or Product Types

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Product / Product Type Membership

Add Users as Members (excluding Owner Role)

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Edit member Roles (excluding Owner Role)

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Edit member Roles (including Owner Role)

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Remove self from Product / Product Type membership

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Add an Owner Role to another User

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Edit an associated Product/Product Type Membership within a Group³

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Delete an associated Product/Product Type Membership within a Group³

Engagements

(Within a Product)

Add, Edit Engagements

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Add, Edit

Risk Acceptances

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Delete Engagements

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Tests

(Within a Product)

Add Tests

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Edit Tests

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Delete Tests

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Findings

(Within a Product)

Add Findings

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Edit Findings

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Import, Reimport

Scan Results

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Delete Findings

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Add, Edit, Delete

Finding Groups

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Other Data

(Within a Product)

Add, Edit Endpoints

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Delete Endpoints

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Edit Benchmarks

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Delete Benchmarks

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View Note History

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Add, Edit, Delete Own Notes

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Edit Other Notes

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Delete Other Notes

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  1. A user who is assigned permissions at the Product level only cannot view the Product Type it is contained in.

  2. When a new Product is added underneath a Product Type, all Product Type-level Users will be added as Members of the new Product with their Product Type-level Role.

  3. The user who wishes to make changes to a Group must also have Edit Group Configuration Permissions, and a Maintainer or Owner Group Configuration Role in the Group they wish to edit.

Configuration Permission Chart

Each Configuration Permission refers to a particular function in the software, and has an associated set of actions a user can perform related to this function.

The majority of Configuration Permissions give users access to certain pages in the UI.

Configuration Permission

View ☑️

Add ☑️

Edit ☑️

Delete ☑️

Credential Manager

Access the ⚙️Configuration > Credential Manager page

Add new entries to the Credential Manager

Edit Credential Manager entries

Delete Credential Manager entries

Development Environments

n/a

Add new Development Environments to the 🗓️Engagements > Environments list

Edit Development Environments in the 🗓️Engagements > Environments list

Delete Development Environments from the 🗓️Engagements > Environments list

Finding Templates¹

Access the Findings > Finding Templates page

Add a Finding Template

Edit a Finding Template

Delete a Finding Template

Groups

Access the 👤Users > Groups page

Add a new User Group

Superuser only

Superuser only

Jira Instances

Access the ⚙️Configuration > JIRA page

Add a new JIRA Configuration

Edit an existing JIRA Configuration

Delete a JIRA Configuration

Language Types

Login Banner

n/a

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Edit the login banner, located under ⚙️Configuration > Login Banner

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Announcements

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Configure Announcements, located under

⚙️Configuration > Announcements

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Note Types

Access the ⚙️Configuration > Note Types page

Add a Note Type

Edit a Note Type

Delete a Note Type

Product Types

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Add a new Product Type (under Products > Product Type)

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Questionnaires

Access the Questionnaires > All Questionnaires page

Add a new Questionnaire

Edit an existing Questionnaire

Delete a Questionnaire

Questions

Access the Questionnaires > Questions page

Add a new Question

Edit an existing Question

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Regulations

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Add a Regulation to the ⚙️Configuration > Regulations page

Edit an existing Regulation

Delete a Regulation

SLA Configuration

Access the ⚙️Configuration > SLA Configuration page

Add a new SLA Configuration

Edit an existing SLA Configuration

Delete an SLA Configuration

Test Types

n/a

Add a new Test Type (under Engagements > Test Types)

Edit an existing Test Type

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Tool Configuration

Access the ⚙️Configuration > Tool Configuration page

Add a new Tool Configuration

Edit an existing Tool Configuration

Delete a Tool Configuration

Tool Types

Access the ⚙️Configuration > Tool Types page

Add a new Tool Type

Edit an existing Tool Type

Delete a Tool Type

Users

Access the 👤Users > Users page

Add a new User to DefectDojo

Edit an existing User

Delete a User

  1. Access to the Finding Templates page also requires the Writer, Maintainer or Owner Global Role for this user.

Group Configuration Permissions

Configuration Permission

Reader

Maintainer

Owner

View Group

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Remove self from Group

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Edit a Member’s role in a Group

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Edit or Delete a Product or Product Type Membership from a Group¹

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Change a Group Member’s role to Owner

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Delete Group

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  1. This also requires the User to have at least a Maintainer Role on the Product or Product Type which they wish to edit.

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