docs(connectors): document GitHub issue import on the GHAS connector - #15755
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The GitHub Advanced Security connector can now import a repository's issue tracker as a fourth finding type, GitHub:Issues, alongside the code scanning, Dependabot and secret scanning alert families. Documents the two settings that drive it -- Issue Labels as the filter, Issue Severity Labels as the label-to-severity map, and Default Issue Severity for whatever the map does not match -- plus the token permission issues need, which is less than the alert families require and does not depend on Advanced Security being enabled at all. Adds a "what to expect" section covering the parts that surprise people: pull requests are never imported even though GitHub returns them from the issues endpoint, closing an issue closes the finding, the issue body is reproduced verbatim as the description, and these findings carry no CWE, CVE or component so they will not deduplicate against scanner findings for the same problem. English only; the translated tool references are updated by their own pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Documents GitHub issue import on the GitHub Advanced Security connector, which can now read a repository's issue tracker as a fourth finding type (
GitHub:Issues) alongside the code scanning, Dependabot and secret scanning alert families.Issues are ordinary tracker entries rather than scanner output — GitHub attaches no severity, CWE or CVE to them — so two settings decide what is imported and how it is scored, and the docs explain both:
Both are blank by default and nothing is imported until a label is set, so an existing connector is unaffected.
Also documents the token permission issues need, which is less than the alert families require and does not depend on Advanced Security being enabled for the repository at all.
The last section covers the behaviours people are most likely to be caught out by:
English only. The four translated tool references are updated by their own pass — three of the last four changes to this page followed the same pattern.