Standardising on a format for describing affected functions.
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Description
Context: https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema/issues/127
Summary: Many ecosystems/databases are starting to encode more fine grained, "vulnerable symbol" information in advisories.
Go has defined their own ecosystem_specific format for describing affected functions: https://go.dev/security/vuln/database#schema. Most vulns in the Go vuln DB have this.
RustSec has this in their security advisories: https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/ee74d43ec2c6203750e38a254f4029f6181c4362/crates/RUSTSEC-2021-0027.json#L30
GHSA also has their own: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/046aafb21a71eadbe8bdd5a72b1491a5f1209fb7/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/07/GHSA-57fc-8q82-gfp3/GHSA-57fc-8q82-gfp3.json#L25
Given that ecosystems have their own nuances for describing these accurately (e.g. OS, arch specifiers), it makes more sense for ecosystems to each define their own ecosystem_specific field. We should define an ecosystem_specific for Python as well as part of this DB.
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Research direction
Start with the linked osv-schema issue and compare the Go, RustSec, and GHSA formats referenced in this issue. The work is done when the Python ecosystem_specific format accounts for ecosystem-specific nuances and is agreed for use in this advisory database.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100