Hi,

I have fixed all the reviews[1]! Please check at your spare time.

[1] https://github.com/apache/ratis/pull/1328

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Xinyu Tan

On 2025/12/15 17:11:41 Tsz Wo Sze wrote:
> I agree that we do not have to hide the reports, since the reports contain
> the publicly known vulnerabilities but not newly discovered
> vulnerabilities. This kind of report is already available in maven repo and
> other web sites.
> 
> Xinyu, thanks a lot for starting the discussion and working on it!
> 
> Tsz-Wo
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM Xinyu Tan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Attila
> >
> > Yes you are right!
> >
> > Since Apache Ratis is an open-source project, anyone can already scan the
> > codebase using vulnerability scanning tools. In that sense, publishing such
> > a report does not materially increase risk, because attackers who have the
> > capability to find vulnerabilities do not need to rely on this report in
> > order to discover issues.
> >
> > From a community perspective, having this report can be valuable as a
> > pre-release checklist item. It would help ensure that before every release
> > we do not have any publicly known CVEs, and it could serve as an additional
> > quality control step ahead of voting on a release.
> >
> > Best
> > -------------
> > Xinyu Tan
> >
> > On 2025/12/15 10:08:43 Attila Doroszlai wrote:
> > > > Regarding the first point, the new workflow checks vulnerabilities
> > against the NVD, which is more comprehensive than the current scanning that
> > only uses GitHub Advisory data. The NVD offers a broader and more
> > up-to-date set of vulnerabilities.
> > >
> > > Nice.
> > >
> > > > As for visibility, I tested it and found that only committers can
> > trigger the workflow. However, GitHub doesn't currently support restricting
> > visibility of workflow results[1].
> > >
> > > On second thought that's OK.  Visibility is important for security
> > > issues within the project itself.  I guess anyone can perform this
> > > dependency scan locally, so hiding the results does not make much
> > > difference.
> > >
> > > I'll check the PR.
> > >
> > > -Attila
> > >
> >
> 

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