# Project Vulnerabilities API **(ULTIMATE)**

> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/197494) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.10.

CAUTION: **Caution:**
This API is currently in development and is protected by a **disabled**
[feature flag](../development/feature_flags/index.md).
On a self-managed GitLab instance, an administrator can enable it by starting the Rails console
(`sudo gitlab-rails console`) and then running the following command: `Feature.enable(:first_class_vulnerabilities)`.
To test if the Vulnerability Exports API was successfully enabled, run the following command:
`Feature.enabled?(:first_class_vulnerabilities)`.

CAUTION: **Caution:**
This API is in an alpha stage and considered unstable.
The response payload may be subject to change or breakage
across GitLab releases.

Every API call to vulnerability exports must be [authenticated](README.md#authentication).

Vulnerability export permissions inherit permissions from their project. If a project is
private and a user isn't a member of the project to which the vulnerability
belongs, requests to that project return a `404 Not Found` status code.
Vulnerability exports can be only accessed by the export's author.

## Create vulnerability export

Creates a new vulnerability export.

If an authenticated user doesn't have permission to
[create a new vulnerability](../user/permissions.md#project-members-permissions),
this request results in a `403` status code.

```plaintext
POST /projects/:id/vulnerability_exports
```

| Attribute           | Type              | Required   | Description                                                                                                                  |
| ------------------- | ----------------- | ---------- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `id`                | integer or string | yes        | The ID or [URL-encoded path](README.md#namespaced-path-encoding) of the project which the authenticated user is a member of |

```shell
curl --header POST "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports
```

The created vulnerability export will be automatically deleted after 1 hour.

Example response:

```json
{
  "id": 2,
  "created_at": "2020-03-30T09:35:38.746Z",
  "project_id": 1,
  "format": "csv",
  "status": "created",
  "started_at": null,
  "finished_at": null,
  "_links": {
    "self": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2",
    "download": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2/download"
  }
}
```

## Get single vulnerability export

Gets a single vulnerability export.

```plaintext
POST /projects/:id/vulnerability_exports/:vulnerability_export_id
```

| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `id` | integer or string | yes | The vulnerability's ID |
| `vulnerability_export_id` | integer or string | yes | The vulnerability export's ID |

```shell
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2
```

If the vulnerability export isn't finished, the response is `202 Accepted`.

Example response:

```json
{
  "id": 2,
  "created_at": "2020-03-30T09:35:38.746Z",
  "project_id": 1,
  "format": "csv",
  "status": "finished",
  "started_at": "2020-03-30T09:36:54.469Z",
  "finished_at": "2020-03-30T09:36:55.008Z",
  "_links": {
    "self": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2",
    "download": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2/download"
  }
}
```

## Download vulnerability export

Downloads a single vulnerability export.

```plaintext
POST /projects/:id/vulnerability_exports/:vulnerability_export_id/download
```

| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `id` | integer or string | yes | The vulnerability's ID |
| `vulnerability_export_id` | integer or string | yes | The vulnerability export's ID |

```shell
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/vulnerability_exports/2/download
```

The response will be `404 Not Found` if the vulnerability export is not finished yet or was not found.

Example response:

```csv
Scanner Type,Scanner Name,Status,Vulnerability,Details,Additional Info,Severity,CVE
container_scanning,Clair,confirmed,CVE-2017-16997 in glibc,,CVE-2017-16997 in glibc,critical,CVE-2017-16997
container_scanning,Clair,detected,CVE-2017-18269 in glibc,,CVE-2017-18269 in glibc,critical,CVE-2017-18269
container_scanning,Clair,detected,CVE-2018-1000001 in glibc,,CVE-2018-1000001 in glibc,high,CVE-2018-1000001
container_scanning,Clair,detected,CVE-2016-10228 in glibc,,CVE-2016-10228 in glibc,medium,CVE-2016-10228
container_scanning,Clair,confirmed,CVE-2010-4052 in glibc,,CVE-2010-4052 in glibc,low,CVE-2010-4052
container_scanning,Clair,detected,CVE-2018-18520 in elfutils,,CVE-2018-18520 in elfutils,low,CVE-2018-18520
container_scanning,Clair,detected,CVE-2018-16869 in nettle,,CVE-2018-16869 in nettle,unknown,CVE-2018-16869
dependency_scanning,Gemnasium,detected,Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug,,Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug,unknown,yarn.lock:debug:gemnasium:37283ed4-0380-40d7-ada7-2d994afcc62a
dependency_scanning,Gemnasium,detected,Authentication bypass via incorrect DOM traversal and canonicalization in saml2-js,,Authentication bypass via incorrect DOM traversal and canonicalization in saml2-js,unknown,yarn.lock:saml2-js:gemnasium:9952e574-7b5b-46fa-a270-aeb694198a98
sast,Find Security Bugs,detected,Predictable pseudorandom number generator,,Predictable pseudorandom number generator,medium,818bf5dacb291e15d9e6dc3c5ac32178:PREDICTABLE_RANDOM:src/main/java/com/gitlab/security_products/tests/App.java:47
sast,Find Security Bugs,detected,Cipher with no integrity,,Cipher with no integrity,medium,e6449b89335daf53c0db4c0219bc1634:CIPHER_INTEGRITY:src/main/java/com/gitlab/security_products/tests/App.java:29
sast,Find Security Bugs,detected,Predictable pseudorandom number generator,,Predictable pseudorandom number generator,medium,e8ff1d01f74cd372f78da8f5247d3e73:PREDICTABLE_RANDOM:src/main/java/com/gitlab/security_products/tests/App.java:41
sast,Find Security Bugs,confirmed,ECB mode is insecure 2,,ECB mode is insecure,medium,ea0f905fc76f2739d5f10a1fd1e37a10:ECB_MODE:src/main/java/com/gitlab/security_products/tests/App.java:29
```