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🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/CodeEngine

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
security

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This is a security notification from IBM OSPO about dependency vulnerabilities. The alerts involve the 'accelerate' and 'cookie' packages. Check the project's dependency files (like package.json, requirements.txt, or similar) to see where these packages are used. The goal is to update or replace the vulnerable packages to meet the specified SLAs. The issue provides deadlines but no specific code pointers; start by locating the dependency declarations and understanding the project's build and test process.

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Description

security

🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/CodeEngine

Action required: Remediate the alerts listed below before their SLA deadline.
This issue will be closed automatically once all alerts are resolved.

SLA policy: critical = 7 days, high = 30 days, medium = 90 days, low = no deadline.
Alerts at or above medium severity will trigger a warning comment before the deadline and
repo archiving if unresolved. Low-severity alerts are tracked here for visibility only —
they will never trigger warnings or archiving.

💡 Tip: To have Dependabot automatically open fix PRs for dependency alerts, enable
Dependabot security updates in your repo settings:
Settings → Advanced Security → Dependabot security updates → Enable.

📖 New to this issue? See the Security Issue Guide for a full explanation of what this issue means and what you need to do.

Attention: @uwefassnacht @smoser-ibm @jeremiaswerner @reggeenr

Dependabot Alerts
Severity CVE/GHSA Package Affected Patched Deadline Fix PR
🟡 medium CVE-2026-69112 accelerate <= 1.14.0 — 2026-12-22 —
Code Scanning Alerts

No open code scanning alerts.

Secret Scanning Alerts

No open secret scanning alerts.


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