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🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/IBMStorageVirtualizeRestAPI

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by locating the repository’s Python dependency configuration and checking how urllib3, filelock, and pytest are specified. Update the affected dependencies to the listed patched versions, then run the project’s available tests; done means all five alerts are resolved and the issue can close.

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Description

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🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/IBMStorageVirtualizeRestAPI

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: @sonikabatra3

Dependabot Alerts
Severity CVE/GHSA Package Affected Patched Deadline Fix PR
🟠 high CVE-2026-44431 urllib3 >= 1.23, < 2.7.0 2.7.0 2026-10-21
🟠 high CVE-2026-44432 urllib3 >= 2.6.0, < 2.7.0 2.7.0 2026-10-21
🟡 medium CVE-2025-68146 filelock < 3.20.1 3.20.1 2026-12-20
🟡 medium CVE-2026-22701 filelock < 3.20.3 3.20.3 2026-12-20
🟡 medium CVE-2025-71176 pytest < 9.0.3 9.0.3 2026-12-20
Code Scanning Alerts

No open code scanning alerts.

Secret Scanning Alerts

No open secret scanning alerts.


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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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