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Adding GHSA from non ecosystem software

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
github
Domain
database, security

Research direction

Start with the repository README’s stated behavior and review the example advisory GHSA-m59c-q9gq-rh2j alongside its project Security page. The issue names no source files or tests; determine whether non-ecosystem advisories are in scope and what repository change or documentation would define completion.

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Description

Hello,

i currently started working with the Github Adivsory Database to track vulnerabilities for packages which are not part of any Ecosystem. For example when using https://github.com/mcu-tools/mcuboot they track their vulnerabilities using Github. But the recorded GHSA for example GHSA-m59c-q9gq-rh2j are not listed in the Database.
While i understand that per Readme this behavior is intended I do not really understand the reason.
For my understanding GHSA are already checked by the maintainer of the project before they are listed on the Security Page of the respective project. So i do not understand the benefit of not listing those vulnerabilities to the Database.

Is there any chance that such vulnerabilities could be added to this database?

Best regards

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