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Produce GitLab-format security advisories

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Assessment

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

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating how this repository currently represents or produces security advisories, then determine the GitLab format and CSAF mapping requirements; done means GitLab-format advisories can be produced and updates can be pushed to the GitLab Advisory Database.

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Description

This issue is to keep track producing of security advisories in the GitLab format.

Reasons for producing GitLab-format security advisories:

  • Provides single source of truth
  • Allows for mapping validation with CSAF
  • Allows ease of pushing updates of security advisories to the GitLab Advisory Database

Currently, this is blocked by the JSON Schema not being licensed under a standard FOSS license. We have raised the issue with GitLab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/gemnasium-db/-/issues/186#note_867769170

This issue is no longer blocked.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
4
Forks
1
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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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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