The osv/ directory has not been updated since 2026-03-10, and OSV.dev imports it
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
Research direction
Start by inspecting the osv/ directory, its git history, and the azurelinux-3.0-oval.xml and cbl-mariner-2.0-oval.xml publication state. Compare the OSV snapshot with current OVAL advisories and determine whether an existing recurring export path is mentioned or available. Done means OSV data is regenerated on the intended cadence, or README documents discontinuation and OSV.dev is notified.
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Description
Summary
The native OSV files under osv/ in this repository appear to have been published once — a single commit on 2026-03-10 — and never regenerated, while the OVAL files (azurelinux-3.0-oval.xml, cbl-mariner-2.0-oval.xml) are updated daily. OSV.dev's importer consumes exactly that osv/ directory (their source.yaml, entry azurelinux: repo_url: https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData.git, directory_path: 'osv'), so the Azure Linux:2 / Azure Linux:3 ecosystems on OSV.dev are frozen, and every OSV.dev consumer silently misses everything Azure Linux has published since the spring.
Evidence (sampled 2026-08-28)
git log -- osvon this repository: exactly one commit (1c040ad, 2026-03-10), authored by CBL-Mariner-Bot with the message "Added latest version of OSV files: 1773178605" — the phrasing suggests an automated export that was meant to recur and ran once.- OVAL: current (this repository's latest commit 2026-08-27 at the time of sampling); it contains, for example, CVE-2026-10536 (curl), CVE-2026-42250 (bzip2), CVE-2025-5278 (coreutils).
- The
osv/files do not contain those advisories. - Downstream effect on OSV.dev:
POST /v1/query {"package":{"name":"curl","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3"}}returns 14 records, every onemodified: 2026-04-21(their last processing of the frozen snapshot); same forexpat(12 records, same date).
Impact
Scanners consuming the OVAL directly (grype, trivy) are current; anything consuming OSV.dev's Azure Linux data is ~5 months stale. In a three-scanner differential over a digest-pinned Azure Linux 3.0 image, the OVAL consumers report 140 (package, CVE) findings — 135 of them 2026 CVEs, all with real fixed versions — that an OSV.dev-sourced scanner misses entirely.
Ask
Either regenerate osv/ on the same cadence as the OVAL (it looks like a one-time export that was intended to be continuous — OSV.dev onboarded it as a production source in April, google/osv.dev#5175), or, if the OSV export is discontinued, say so in the README and let OSV.dev know so they can point their importer elsewhere or retire the ecosystem rather than serving frozen data.
Happy to provide the full 140-finding list or any other detail.
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