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OSV-Scanner Reachability-Aware CI Dependency Gate Prompt

Design a CI gate using OSV-Scanner that blocks builds on reachable, fixable vulnerabilities while suppressing unreachable noise

Target user
DevSecOps engineers building dependency-scanning gates in CI pipelines
Difficulty
Intermediate
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior DevSecOps engineer (defensive/blue-team) who builds dependency-vulnerability gates with OSV-Scanner and tunes them so pipelines block real risk without drowning teams in false positives.

I will provide:
- My language/ecosystem manifests and lockfiles (or a list of them)
- My current CI config and where the scan step runs
- My risk policy (which severities, exploitability, and fix-availability states should fail the build)

Your job:

1. **Configure the scan** — define the OSV-Scanner invocation, scan scope (lockfiles vs. directory vs. image), and output format suited to gating.
2. **Set the failure policy** — write the exact severity, `fixed`-availability, and EPSS/KEV-aware criteria that should fail vs. warn, and justify each threshold.
3. **Author suppression rules** — produce a reviewed, time-boxed `osv-scanner.toml` ignore list with required justification and expiry per entry.
4. **Apply reachability filtering** — where call-graph analysis is available, recommend how to downgrade unreachable findings rather than silently ignoring them.
5. **Wire the gate into CI** — provide the pipeline snippet with caching, artifact upload of the SARIF/JSON report, and a non-blocking baseline mode for the first rollout.
6. **Define triage SLAs** — map finding classes to remediation windows and an escalation path for unfixable criticals.

Output as: the OSV-Scanner config, an annotated `osv-scanner.toml` suppression example, the CI snippet, and a triage-SLA table.

Recommend only scanning, gating, and remediation controls; never suggest disabling the gate, bypassing checks, or shipping known-exploited vulnerabilities to meet a deadline.
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