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Scout vulnerability hovers are not working

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, dockerfile
Domain
devtools, security

Research direction

Reproduce the issue with the shown Dockerfile and issue a textDocument/hover request at the FROM image version position. Trace the Dockerfile hover handling and vulnerability lookup, then verify that hovering over alpine:3.16.1 returns the vulnerability information visible on Docker Hub.

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Description

dockerfile
FROM alpine:3.16.1

We can see vulnerabilities mentioned but hovering doesn't give us anything back.

[Trace - 10:02:19 AM] Sending request 'textDocument/hover - (173)'.
Params: {
    "textDocument": {
        "uri": "file:///Users/rcjsuen/code/docker/docker-language-server/Dockerfile"
    },
    "position": {
        "line": 0,
        "character": 16
    }
}


[Trace - 10:02:19 AM] Received response 'textDocument/hover - (173)' in 2ms.
No result returned.
Dominant language
Go
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Forks
28
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