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Add SLO for severity::4 Low vulnerabilities

James Ritchey requested to merge jritchey-master-patch-95921 into master

Why is this change being made?

Having no SLO for severity4 security vulnerabilities means they are highly unlikely to be prioritized and thus fixed. We want to make it very clear of the timeframe we want them fixed within because they are still vulnerabilities susceptible to exploiting.

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Rollout plan

As of DATE all future S4/P4 security issues will have an SLO of 180 days. To ensure this is met, due dates will be automatically assigned to align with the closest security release before that date. Existing S4/P4s will be prioritised and given due dates in a separate effort.


Edited by Nick Malcolm

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