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Expand risk message validation to ensure appropriate field values are present

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
security

Research direction

Locate the existing risk message validation entry point and trace how raw events and field tokens are handled. Determine the expected field values from the raw event and verify that each appears in the risk message, while preserving the existing unreplaced-token check. Done means validation rejects messages missing expected values and accepts complete messages.

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Description

  • During risk message validation, we ensure that none of the field tokens remain unreplaced in the risk event message
  • We could take this an additional step by determining the expected field values from the raw event, and ensuring they all DO appear in the risk message as well
Dominant language
Python
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139
Forks
51
Avg merge
1h 16m
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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