Description of Vulnerability is empty in GraphQL

Summary

When using the GitLab GraphQL API, vulnerabilities have an empty description.

Steps to reproduce

{
  project(fullPath: "gitlab-org/security-products/demos/imports") {
    name
    vulnerabilities {
      nodes {
        id
        description
      }
    }
  }
}

Example Project

Tested with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/demos/imports but also other projects with recent findings, description was empty.

What is the current bug behavior?

  • Description field is empty

What is the expected correct behavior?

  • Description of the vulnerability available

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

N/A

Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.co

Results of GitLab environment info

Expand for output related to GitLab environment info

(For installations with omnibus-gitlab package run and paste the output of:
`sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info`)

(For installations from source run and paste the output of:
`sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production`)

Results of GitLab application Check

Expand for output related to the GitLab application check

(For installations with omnibus-gitlab package run and paste the output of: sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check SANITIZE=true)

(For installations from source run and paste the output of: sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production SANITIZE=true)

(we will only investigate if the tests are passing)

Possible fixes

  • backend Similar to #284473 (closed), this should be resolved by pulling the finding description if one does not exist for the vulnerability

/cc @matt_wilson @lkerr @thiagocsf for prioritization

Edited by Jonathan Schafer