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Support for specifying how a vulnerability was matched against a component #460

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prabhu opened this issue May 8, 2024 · 0 comments
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prabhu commented May 8, 2024

Often, there is no 1:1 match between a component.purl and a vulnerability.affects.ref. Different tools use different techniques to generate aliases to attempt to match a given component (group + name + version) against a vulnerability (group + name + version ranges).

By explicitly specifying a affects.matched_by, the alias(es) that resulted in the match could be shared with the consumer tools.

https://cyclonedx.org/docs/1.6/json/#vulnerabilities_items_affects_items_ref

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Assume, the purl of a package is pkg:npm/foo/[email protected]. The vulnerability database has the entry foo_project : bar-library : <2.0.0

affects.matched_by would be ["foo_project : bar-library : <2.0.0"] to inform the consumer tools that the result was obtained with a fuzzy match (by creating variations of the group and name attributes). Without this attribute, the tools currently assume that every single vulnerability was obtained with a precision purl based match, which need not be the case.

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