# CircleCI: Unauthorized Status on Workflows utilizing contexts

> CircleCI status incident “Unauthorized Status on Workflows utilizing contexts” on 2018-08-01: impact none (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz
Last updated: 2018-08-01T17:00:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2018-08-01 17:00 UTC · Resolved: 2018-08-01 17:00 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.circleci.com/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz](https://status.circleci.com/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz)
- [Company: CircleCI](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2018-08-01 17:00 UTC: What happened? CircleCI is working on a feature to add secure permissions to contexts. As part of the rollout, we added permissions to all contexts. The permissions check did not handle some cases: - Customers who have never logged in to CircleCI and are using contexts - Customers who have scheduled workflows In these two cases, customers noticed “unauthorized” status on their workflows. The issues occurred between 19:00 and 21:00 UTC on 2018-07-31 and 14:00 and 17:00 UTC on 2018-08-01. What did we do? We have updated our services to accommodate for these cases. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by CircleCI, started 2018-08-01 17:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz
- Citation: CircleCI, “Unauthorized Status on Workflows utilizing contexts” (2018-08-01 17:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[CircleCI: Unauthorized Status on Workflows utilizing contexts (2018-08-01)](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/tg7gzrvf3jzz)`


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