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Vulnerability Findings API (ULTIMATE)

Introduced in GitLab 12.5.

NOTE: This API resource is renamed from Vulnerabilities to Vulnerability Findings because the Vulnerabilities are reserved for serving Vulnerability objects. To fix any broken integrations with the former Vulnerabilities API, change the vulnerabilities URL part to be vulnerability_findings.

Every API call to vulnerability findings must be authenticated.

If a user does not have permission to use the Project Security Dashboard, any request for vulnerability findings of this project returns a 403 Forbidden status code.

WARNING: This API is in the process of being deprecated and considered unstable. The response payload may be subject to change or breakage across GitLab releases. Please use the GraphQL API instead. See the GraphQL examples to get started.

Vulnerability findings pagination

By default, GET requests return 20 results at a time because the API results are paginated.

Read more on pagination.

List project vulnerability findings

List all of a project's vulnerability findings.

GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?report_type=sast
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?report_type=container_scanning
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?report_type=sast,dast
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?scope=all
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?scope=dismissed
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?severity=high
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?confidence=unknown,experimental
GET /projects/:id/vulnerability_findings?pipeline_id=42

WARNING: Beginning with GitLab 12.9, the undefined severity and confidence level is no longer reported.

Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project which the authenticated user is a member of.
report_type string array no Returns vulnerability findings belonging to specified report type. Valid values: sast, dast, dependency_scanning, or container_scanning. Defaults to all.
scope string no Returns vulnerability findings for the given scope: all or dismissed. Defaults to dismissed.
severity string array no Returns vulnerability findings belonging to specified severity level: info, unknown, low, medium, high, or critical. Defaults to all.
confidence string array no Returns vulnerability findings belonging to specified confidence level: ignore, unknown, experimental, low, medium, high, or confirmed. Defaults to all.
pipeline_id integer/string no Returns vulnerability findings belonging to specified pipeline. 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/4/vulnerability_findings"

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": null,
    "report_type": "sast",
    "name": "Possible command injection",
    "severity": "high",
    "confidence": "high",
    "scanner": {
      "external_id": "brakeman",
      "name": "Brakeman",
      "vendor": "GitLab"
    },
    "identifiers": [
      {
        "external_type": "brakeman_warning_code",
        "external_id": "14",
        "name": "Brakeman Warning Code 14",
        "url": "https://brakemanscanner.org/docs/warning_types/command_injection/"
      }
    ],
    "project_fingerprint": "ac218b1770af030cfeef967752ab803c55afb36d",
    "uuid": "ad5e3be3-a193-55f5-a200-bc12865fb09c",
    "create_jira_issue_url": null,
    "false_positive": true,
    "create_vulnerability_feedback_issue_path": "/root/test-false-positive/-/vulnerability_feedback",
    "create_vulnerability_feedback_merge_request_path": "/root/test-false-positive/-/vulnerability_feedback",
    "create_vulnerability_feedback_dismissal_path": "/root/test-false-positive/-/vulnerability_feedback",
    "project": {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Test False Positive",
      "full_path": "/root/test-false-positive",
      "full_name": "Administrator / Test False Positive"
    },
    "dismissal_feedback": null,
    "issue_feedback": null,
    "merge_request_feedback": null,
    "description": null,
    "links": [],
    "location": {
      "file": "app/controllers/users_controller.rb",
      "start_line": 42,
      "class": "UsersController",
      "method": "list_users"
    },
    "remediations": [
      null
    ],
    "solution": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "request": null,
    "response": null,
    "evidence_source": null,
    "supporting_messages": [],
    "assets": [],
    "details": {},
    "state": "detected",
    "scan": {
      "type": "sast",
      "status": "success",
      "start_time": "2021-09-02T20:55:48",
      "end_time": "2021-09-02T20:55:48"
    },
    "blob_path": "/root/test-false-positive/-/blob/dfd75607752a839bbc9c7362d111effaa470fecd/app/controllers/users_controller.rb#L42"
  }
]

Replace Vulnerability Findings REST API with GraphQL

To prepare for the upcoming deprecation of the Vulnerability Findings REST API endpoint, use the examples below to perform the equivalent operations with the GraphQL API.

GraphQL - Project vulnerabilities

Use Project.vulnerabilities.

{
  project(fullPath: "root/security-reports") {
    vulnerabilities {
      nodes{
        id
        reportType
        title
        severity
        scanner {
          externalId
          name
          vendor
        }
        identifiers {
          externalType
          externalId
          name
          url
        }
        falsePositive
        project {
          id
          name
          fullPath
        }
        description
        links {
          name
          url
        }
        location {
          ... on
          VulnerabilityLocationSast {
            file
            startLine
            endLine
            vulnerableClass
            vulnerableMethod
            blobPath
          }
        }
        details {
          ... on
          VulnerabilityDetailCode {
            description
            fieldName
            lang
            name
            value
          }
        }
        state
      }
    }
  }
}

Example response:

{
  "data": {
    "project": {
      "vulnerabilities": {
        "nodes": [
          {
            "id": "gid://gitlab/Vulnerability/236",
            "reportType": "SAST",
            "title": "Generic Object Injection Sink",
            "severity": "CRITICAL",
            "scanner": {
              "externalId": "eslint",
              "name": "ESLint",
              "vendor": "GitLab"
            },
            "identifiers": [
              {
                "externalType": "eslint_rule_id",
                "externalId": "security/detect-object-injection",
                "name": "ESLint rule ID security/detect-object-injection",
                "url": "https://github.com/nodesecurity/eslint-plugin-security#detect-object-injection"
              },
              {
                "externalType": "cwe",
                "externalId": "94",
                "name": "CWE-94",
                "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html"
              }
            ],
            "falsePositive": false,
            "project": {
              "id": "gid://gitlab/Project/20",
              "name": "Security Reports",
              "fullPath": "root/security-reports"
            },
            "description": "Bracket object notation with user input is present, this might allow an attacker to access all properties of the object and even it's prototype, leading to possible code execution.",
            "links": [],
            "location": {
              "file": "src/js/main.js",
              "startLine": "28",
              "endLine": "28",
              "vulnerableClass": null,
              "vulnerableMethod": null,
              "blobPath": "/root/security-reports/-/blob/91031428a5b5dbb81e8d889738b1875c1bfea787/src/js/main.js"
            },
            "details": [],
            "state": "DETECTED"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}