Improve the UX of failed vulnerability retrieval by the API #2235
Labels
api
API-related infrastructure
backlog
Important but currently unprioritized
documentation
Improvements or additions to documentation
Describe the bug
Users try to retrieve a vulnerability (typically a CVE) by the API that the web interface reports as an alias of another vulnerability and that retrieval fails because the CVE record does not exist in OSV.dev
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:
Expected behaviour
The user receives some pointers to documentation to assist with interpreting the search failure.
My initial thoughts:
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