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Project owners need some way to adjust severity of OSS-Fuzz reports

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Description

This is a companion to https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/11925

OSS-Fuzz automatically assigns severity for bugs. This is a great first-pass triage, but sometimes OSS-Fuzz is wrong. It may over-level the bug if it's a bug in the fuzzer and not actual code, or in an irrelevant part of the system. It may under-level the bug if it's a case where non-memory-safety correctness still has serious ramifications, e.g. some kinds of cryptographic errors.

Now that OSS-Fuzz bugs are integrated into OSV, these mistakes go from cosmetic issues to actual problems.

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Research direction

Start by reading companion issue #11925 and tracing how OSS-Fuzz severity reaches OSV. Define how project owners would adjust an automatically assigned severity, including over- and under-levelled cases, and verify that the corrected severity is represented in OSV.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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