Option to skip or ignore files and folder while scanning for Vulnerabilities
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Ignore certain files and folders while scanning for vulnerabilities from a path or location of the project such as Test files and Documentations
Describe the solution you'd like
Option to skip or ignore one or more files and folder from the project while scanning for vulnerabilities.
Reference URL: https://github.com/Kong/kong
When we try to scan the above mentioned repository most of the vulnerabilities were detected in the documents and test files, due to which the repository failed the vulnerabilities criteria with low score.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue does not name specific files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing the vulnerability-scanning flow and its configuration, then define how users select files and folders to exclude; done means scans can ignore those paths without counting their vulnerabilities.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100