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[FEATURE]: Support multiple analysis element per vulnerability #605

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ppkarwasz opened this issue Feb 24, 2025 · 0 comments
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[FEATURE]: Support multiple analysis element per vulnerability #605

ppkarwasz opened this issue Feb 24, 2025 · 0 comments

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Describe the problem

While writing a small proof-of-concept to show how VEX files can help downstream projects discard non exploitable vulnerability reports (copernik-eu/vexation I noticed a limitation of the current CycloneDX spec: each vulnerability object can have only one analysis element.

This means that we can only provide a single justification for all the affects elements, even if each "affects" may have a different justification.

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It might be a good idea to have multiple "analysis" elements and bind each of them with an "affects" element. This could allow to describe situation like:

  • a VEX statement says that a CVE is not exploitable in component a, since it is not exploitable in its dependency b. The CycloneDX document could copy the analysis for component b.
  • a VEX document could describe multiple versions. Some versions might depend on the vulnerable dependency, other might not. The analysis for each version could be different.
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