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Project vulnerabilities API

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WARNING: This API is in the process of being deprecated and considered unstable. The response payload may be subject to change or breakage across GitLab releases. Use the GraphQL API instead.

Every API call to vulnerabilities must be authenticated.

Vulnerability permissions inherit permissions from their project. If a project is private, and a user isn't a member of the project to which the vulnerability belongs, requests to that project returns a 404 Not Found status code.

Vulnerabilities pagination

API results are paginated, and GET requests return 20 results at a time by default.

Read more on pagination.

List project vulnerabilities

List all of a project's vulnerabilities.

If an authenticated user does not have permission to use the Project Security Dashboard, GET requests for vulnerabilities of this project result in a 403 status code.

GET /projects/:id/vulnerabilities
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer or string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user. 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/4/vulnerabilities"

Example response:

[
    {
        "author_id": 1,
        "confidence": "medium",
        "created_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.655Z",
        "description": null,
        "dismissed_at": null,
        "dismissed_by_id": null,
        "finding": {
            "confidence": "medium",
            "created_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.630Z",
            "id": 103,
            "location_fingerprint": "228998b5db51d86d3b091939e2f5873ada0a14a1",
            "metadata_version": "2.0",
            "name": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug",
            "primary_identifier_id": 135,
            "project_fingerprint": "05e7cc9978ca495cf739a9f707ed34811e41c615",
            "project_id": 24,
            "raw_metadata": "{\"category\":\"dependency_scanning\",\"name\":\"Regular Expression Denial of Service\",\"message\":\"Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug\",\"description\":\"The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the `o` formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.\",\"cve\":\"yarn.lock:debug:gemnasium:37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"severity\":\"Unknown\",\"solution\":\"Upgrade to latest versions.\",\"scanner\":{\"id\":\"gemnasium\",\"name\":\"Gemnasium\"},\"location\":{\"file\":\"yarn.lock\",\"dependency\":{\"package\":{\"name\":\"debug\"},\"version\":\"1.0.5\"}},\"identifiers\":[{\"type\":\"gemnasium\",\"name\":\"Gemnasium-37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"value\":\"37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"url\":\"https://deps.sec.gitlab.com/packages/npm/debug/versions/1.0.5/advisories\"}],\"links\":[{\"url\":\"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504\"}],\"remediations\":[null]}",
            "report_type": "dependency_scanning",
            "scanner_id": 63,
            "severity": "low",
            "updated_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.664Z",
            "uuid": "f1d528ae-d0cc-47f6-a72f-936cec846ae7",
            "vulnerability_id": 103
        },
        "id": 103,
        "project": {
            "created_at": "2020-04-07T13:54:25.634Z",
            "description": "",
            "id": 24,
            "name": "security-reports",
            "name_with_namespace": "gitlab-org / security-reports",
            "path": "security-reports",
            "path_with_namespace": "gitlab-org/security-reports"
        },
        "project_default_branch": "main",
        "report_type": "dependency_scanning",
        "resolved_at": null,
        "resolved_by_id": null,
        "resolved_on_default_branch": false,
        "severity": "low",
        "state": "detected",
        "title": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug",
        "updated_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.655Z"
    }
]

New vulnerability

Creates a new vulnerability.

If an authenticated user does not have a permission to create a new vulnerability, this request results in a 403 status code.

POST /projects/:id/vulnerabilities?finding_id=<your_finding_id>
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer or string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project which the authenticated user is a member of
finding_id integer or string yes The ID of a Vulnerability Finding to create the new Vulnerability from

The other attributes of a newly created Vulnerability are populated from its source Vulnerability Finding, or with these default values:

Attribute Value
author The authenticated user
title The name attribute of a Vulnerability Finding
state opened
severity The severity attribute of a Vulnerability Finding
confidence The confidence attribute of a Vulnerability Finding 
curl --header POST "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerabilities?finding_id=1"

Example response:

{
    "author_id": 1,
    "confidence": "medium",
    "created_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.655Z",
    "description": null,
    "dismissed_at": null,
    "dismissed_by_id": null,
    "finding": {
        "confidence": "medium",
        "created_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.630Z",
        "id": 103,
        "location_fingerprint": "228998b5db51d86d3b091939e2f5873ada0a14a1",
        "metadata_version": "2.0",
        "name": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug",
        "primary_identifier_id": 135,
        "project_fingerprint": "05e7cc9978ca495cf739a9f707ed34811e41c615",
        "project_id": 24,
        "raw_metadata": "{\"category\":\"dependency_scanning\",\"name\":\"Regular Expression Denial of Service\",\"message\":\"Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug\",\"description\":\"The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the `o` formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.\",\"cve\":\"yarn.lock:debug:gemnasium:37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"severity\":\"Unknown\",\"solution\":\"Upgrade to latest versions.\",\"scanner\":{\"id\":\"gemnasium\",\"name\":\"Gemnasium\"},\"location\":{\"file\":\"yarn.lock\",\"dependency\":{\"package\":{\"name\":\"debug\"},\"version\":\"1.0.5\"}},\"identifiers\":[{\"type\":\"gemnasium\",\"name\":\"Gemnasium-37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"value\":\"37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a\",\"url\":\"https://deps.sec.gitlab.com/packages/npm/debug/versions/1.0.5/advisories\"}],\"links\":[{\"url\":\"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504\"}],\"remediations\":[null]}",
        "report_type": "dependency_scanning",
        "scanner_id": 63,
        "severity": "low",
        "updated_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.664Z",
        "uuid": "f1d528ae-d0cc-47f6-a72f-936cec846ae7",
        "vulnerability_id": 103
    },
    "id": 103,
    "project": {
        "created_at": "2020-04-07T13:54:25.634Z",
        "description": "",
        "id": 24,
        "name": "security-reports",
        "name_with_namespace": "gitlab-org / security-reports",
        "path": "security-reports",
        "path_with_namespace": "gitlab-org/security-reports"
    },
    "project_default_branch": "main",
    "report_type": "dependency_scanning",
    "resolved_at": null,
    "resolved_by_id": null,
    "resolved_on_default_branch": false,
    "severity": "low",
    "state": "detected",
    "title": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug",
    "updated_at": "2020-04-07T14:01:04.655Z"
}

Errors

This error occurs when a Finding chosen to create a Vulnerability from is not found, or is already associated with a different Vulnerability:

A Vulnerability Finding is not found or already attached to a different Vulnerability

Status code: 400

Example response:

{
  "message": {
    "base": [
      "finding is not found or is already attached to a vulnerability"
    ]
  }
}