NixOS/nix-security-tracker

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Web service for managing information on vulnerabilities in software distributed through Nixpkgs

Stars: 116
Forks: 41
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 93
Avg merge: 1d 10h
Merged PRs (30d): 70

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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93 open issues indexed

Publishing too many CVEs in an issue blows GitHub message limits Open

bug

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1319 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Named routes in frontend Open

frontend nice to have

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1313 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Drop local cpe override and use nixpkgs python3Packages.cpe Open

nice to have

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1303 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Mark backport requirements Open

user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1297 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Remove all suggestions Open

user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1296 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
More compact GitHub issue description when character limit reached Open

user story

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1286 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Expose curated matches between packages and CPEs Open

user story

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1255 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Race condition in `test_paginated_notifications` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1254 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Group "Affected products" in suggestions Open

frontend nice to have

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1253 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Improve rendering of long lists in suggestion sections Open

frontend nice to have

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1252 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Add link to GitHub App settings in contributing guide Open

contributor experience

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1250 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Search by CVE for end users Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1231 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Upgrade Grafana dashboard json to support Grafana 13 (V2 Resource) Open

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1191 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Staging deployments are unreliable Open

bug deployment

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1189 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Update package search views to use packages Open

backend data

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1144 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Simplify cache generation to use packages Open

backend data frontend

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1143 · 2 assignees · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Set when to receive notifications Open

user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1120 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Web service metrics Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1037 · 3 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Replacing suggestion statuses with per package+branch affected statuses Open

backend frontend nice to have

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1025 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 6, 2026
Connection pool Open

deployment

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1019 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Automatically accept issues of some specific software Open

user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1013 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Mark suggestions or issues as fixed per branch Open

user story

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1004 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Application metrics Open

deployment

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#1002 · 2 assignees · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Vulnerability database in OSV format Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#978 · 5 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Apr 7, 2026
Allow a maintainer to mark a dependent as non-affected Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#872 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 14, 2026
Also evaluate release branches Open

backend data

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#864 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Fill up pages in dynamic list views Open

frontend user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#860 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 8, 2026
Move sectracker to a dedicated host instead of cloud VMs Open

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#850 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Clean up existing duplicate Description and Reference records Open

data performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#842 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2026
Remove notifications for packages that are ignored Open

user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#836 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Garbage-collect maintainers from anything but the rolling release Open

data performance tech debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#830 · Opened Feb 27, 2026
Don't create new containers for existing CVEs Open

bug data performance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#812 · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Show maintainers by package Open

frontend

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#801 · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Prefix GitHub issue title with affected package name Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#785 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Fine-grained subscriptions Open

user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#773 · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Incremental suggestion caching Open

data frontend performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#768 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Structured edit reasons Open

user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#738 · Opened Jan 19, 2026
Deduplicate CVE metadata Open

data good first issue performance

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#710 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 10, 2026
Display commits and branches in which vulnerabilities where addressed Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#692 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 17, 2025
Add a flag for reboot on deployment Open

deployment

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#682 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Add the GitHub username of the user that publishes an issue in issues Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#650 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Setup database backups for the production instance Open

deployment

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#648 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Track latest (successful) evaluations in Grafana Open

deployment observability

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#626 · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 25, 2025
Package data model Open

backend data

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#617 · 7 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Track runtime dependants of vulnerable packages Open

user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#578 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Set tracking of build time dependants on vulnerable packages Open

security team user story

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#577 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Notifications for GitHub activities Open

nixpkgs user user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#576 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Cache mapping from GitHub user id to handle Open

performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#555 · Opened May 15, 2025
Subscribe to notifications per channel Open

notifications user story

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#532 · 3 comments · Opened May 2, 2025
Cache GitHub handles Open

performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/nix-security-tracker#521 · Opened Apr 28, 2025

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