Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/205556?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/205556?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-vt5a-3cc5-x7d6", "summary": "An input validation and output encoding issue was discovered in the GitLab email notification feature which could result in a persistent XSS. 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5.4", "exploitability": null, "weighted_severity": null, "risk_score": null, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-vt5a-3cc5-x7d6" }