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🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/node-sdk-core

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
security

Research direction

Inspect the repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles to find where picomatch is declared or resolved. Update it to patched version 2.3.2, then run the project's existing test suite and verify that no affected dependency remains below that version.

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Description

security

🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/node-sdk-core

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.

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Dependabot Alerts
Severity CVE/GHSA Package Affected Patched Deadline Fix PR
🟠 high CVE-2026-33671 picomatch < 2.3.2 2.3.2 2026-10-25 —
🟡 medium CVE-2026-33672 picomatch < 2.3.2 2.3.2 2026-12-24 —

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
20
Forks
28
Avg merge
8h 37m
Merged PRs (30d)
3

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  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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