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name: triage-vulnerability-report
description: Normalize and triage a supplied vulnerability report, scanner result, advisory, CVE, proof of concept, bug bounty submission, security ticket, or researcher note. Use when affected component/version, source credibility, prerequisites, evidence, duplicate status, asset applicability, source-code owner, validation plan, and immediate exposure questions must be established before accepting or rejecting a finding.
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# Triage Vulnerability Report

## Overview

Convert incoming claims into a testable hypothesis tied to an exact product, version, configuration, and asset. Do not reproduce active impact until authorization and the smallest safe validation plan are explicit.

Read [references/vulnerability-intake.md](references/vulnerability-intake.md) for the normalized record.

## Workflow

1. Preserve the original report and source.
2. Normalize identity.
   - Record product/component, versions, commit/build/image, dependency identity, advisory/CVE/CWE, endpoints/code paths, deployment/configuration, and affected assets.
3. Extract the claim.
   - State attacker position, prerequisites, input, security boundary crossed, result, impact, and supplied reproduction.
4. Grade evidence.
   - Separate scanner matching, vulnerable-code presence, reachability, successful reproduction, external advisory, and speculation.
   - Record logs, requests/responses, traces, screenshots, code, and environment details.
5. Check authoritative context.
   - Use vendor advisories, source/release history, OSV/ecosystem advisories, CISA KEV, and current disclosure state; date lookups.
6. Route ownership.
   - Use Codex Security for repository/diff scanning or attack-path work when available.
   - Route to vulnerability validation for a supplied claim and to the owning stack for remediation only after acceptance criteria are clear.
7. Define immediate action.
   - Identify exposed assets, reversible mitigations, missing evidence, safe validation, and disclosure/notification needs.

## Output

Return normalized identity, claim, evidence grade, asset applicability, duplicates/advisories, urgency, validation plan, and owner.