Obsidian Security incident

Subset of Salesforce posture rule unexpectedly changed to passing

Resolved after 6 hours 59 minutes, affecting Posture Management, on August 28, 2025.

resolved Aug 28, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

The issue has been resolved and impacted Salesforce posture rules now reflect the correct status. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time, and if you experience any further issues, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Started
Aug 28, 2025, 04:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 28, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC
Duration
6h 59m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 28, 2025, 04:06 PM UTC

Affected components

Posture Management

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 28, 2025, 04:06 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue impacting a subset of Salesforce posture rules. Impacted customers may find that the rule IDs noted below will have unexpectedly moved from a failing to passing state. In the course of addressing the underlying cause, and rules being reverted to their proper state, posture drift alerts may be received. Environments Impacted: US, EU, AU SalesforceInactivePrivilegedAccounts SalesforceSystemAdmins SalesforcePrivilegedUsersFromLowReputationDomains SalesforceGhostAdmins SalesforceUsersWithCreatePublicLinks SalesforceWeakerProfilePasswordSettings SalesforceExternalUserObjectAccess SalesforceUsersWaivedMFA SalesforceGuestUserObjectAccess SalesforceUsersNoMFA SalesforceIntegrationUsersWithSysAdminProfile SalesforceRiskyGuestUsers SalesforceFieldLevelAccessForEncryptedData SalesforceWeakerProfileSessionSettings SalesforceFieldLevelAccessForComplianceData SalesforceAppsExcessivePermissions Additional updates will be provided via this posting as our investigation progresses and the issue is mitigated.

  2. resolved Aug 28, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

    The issue has been resolved and impacted Salesforce posture rules now reflect the correct status. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time, and if you experience any further issues, please do not hesitate to reach out.

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