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@kzantow kzantow commented Aug 1, 2025

This PR adds a new issue template to report false positives that both labels them appropriately and encourages providing a PURL to make analysis simpler.

Signed-off-by: Keith Zantow <[email protected]>
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name: False Positive
about: Report an incorrect vulnerability match
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This sounds like it could be an FP or an FN. What about something like, "report that Grype detects a vulnerability not actually present"? Not a deal breaker, just trying to be clear about what an FP is since it's not necessarily a term everyone uses every day.

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Will we also have a False Negative template? I think it would make sense to have both


**Package URL (PURL) or steps to reproduce**:
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If possible, please provide a PURL.
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This could use an example. Maybe mention of distro flag too.

Please also include the grype command and any configuration used.
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**Anything else we need to know?**:
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I would add a section here (or maybe at the top) asking for an explanation. URLs are encouraged. So for example we could get something like "CVE-WHATEVER only affects foobar version 3.10 according to the advisory at URL, but grype is claiming version 3.56 is vulnerable"

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