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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked spreadsheet and comparing its component mappings with the referenced GitHub advisories, including GHSA-3p86-xgrq-m6p6 and GHSA-f4qf-m5gf-8jm8. Before making changes, clarify with the advisory-database maintainers how this corpus should be submitted and which entries are in scope; done means the accepted updates identify affected Tomcat components rather than the aggregate project package.

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Description

Hello,

I have a spreadsheet with a large number of Tomcat advisory updates (this sheet is not current with the latest Tomcat vulnerabilities)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b8XqUEK1PuOfTjm1jj-YSIoQa92A7uwjVfF06kd4bXg/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Many GitHub advisories for tomcat reference the package org.apache.tomcat:tomcat, which is not an installable jar. For example
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3p86-xgrq-m6p6

Vulnerability scanners should be detecting specific components of the Tomcat project rather than the project itself, and vulnerabilities affect specific Tomcat jars, not all Tomcat jars.

There are some GitHub Tomcat advisories that do capture the specific components that a vulnerability affects
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f4qf-m5gf-8jm8

In the spreadsheet I have identified the Tomcat component(s) affected by the given vulnerabilities in column D. Some of the vulnerabilities couldn't be figured out, or are documentation or example updates. I left them in for posterity.

I have a few questions about how to submit this large corpus of updates. I would like to work with the GitHub team to minimize friction. I'm very open to suggestions. I can submit one big PR, many small PRs. I'm happy to trickle them in if that's easier. Whatever works best for the GitHub team.

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