Feature Proposal: Contextual Patching for Dependency Scanning

Problem to solve

SCA users suffer from alert fatigue. A single Dependency Scan can return more vulnerabilities than a team can handle in a single sprint / milestone. The groupcomposition analysis recognizes this and want to consider how we can reduce the overall noise associated with Dependency Scanning.

One mechanism to reduce noise is to provide more insight into how a Dependency is used within a project. Specifically, if we can understand the relationship a given dependency has within a project, we can likely reduce the workload for developers that are performing mitigations.

Proposal

The initial thinking is to build a graph to show the CVEs that might be eliminated by upgrading a framework version or some other change within the project.

Intended users

Does this feature require an audit event?

No

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