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Red Hat VEX Fixed CVEs with Upstream Fix Commits
One row per CVE that Red Hat has fixed in at least one shipped product
(per Red Hat's CSAF VEX data), joined against CVE.org's cvelistV5 records
to resolve the upstream git commit(s) that fixed the issue. Only CVEs
with at least one resolved upstream fix commit are included.
Intended use: benchmarking the ability of models and tools to find real
security issues in code. For each row with a resolved fix commit, the parent
commit (<upstream_fix_commit>^) of upstream_repo_url is a known-vulnerable
code state, and the commit diff is ground truth for the flaw and its fix.
Fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
cve |
CVE identifier |
title |
Red Hat flaw title (component: short description) |
component |
Component name parsed from the title |
severity |
Red Hat aggregate severity (Low / Moderate / Important / Critical) |
cwe_id, cwe_name |
CWE assigned by Red Hat |
cvss_v3_score, cvss_v3_vector |
Highest CVSS v3 base score across affected products |
description |
Red Hat vulnerability description |
summary |
Red Hat topic/summary line |
statement |
Red Hat statement (context / applicability), when present |
public_date |
Date the issue became public (ISO 8601) |
discovery_date |
Red Hat discovery/report date |
bugzilla_id |
Red Hat Bugzilla identifier |
cisa_kev |
True if referenced in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog |
rh_advisories |
Red Hat advisories (RHSA/RHBA/RHEA) that shipped a fix |
rh_fixed_packages |
Fixed package NEVRAs (capped at 50 per row) |
references |
Reference URLs from the VEX record |
upstream_fix_commit |
Primary upstream fix commit SHA (first resolved) |
upstream_repo_url |
Upstream repository URL for that commit |
upstream_fix_commits |
All resolved commits: {repo_url, commit, ref_url, source} |
upstream_affected_versions |
Affected upstream version ranges (cvelistV5 CNA data, or <= <tag> derived from git when the CNA had none) |
upstream_fixed_versions |
Fixed upstream versions (cvelistV5 CNA data, or the git-derived tag when the CNA had none) |
upstream_fixed_version_git |
First upstream release tag whose history contains the fix commit (derived by cloning the repo and running git tag --contains) |
upstream_last_affected_version_git |
Newest release tag in the fix commit's ancestry — the latest release that definitely does not contain the fix |
version_derivation_status |
ok, fix_unreleased (no tag contains the commit yet), commit_not_found, clone_failed, no_clone_url (non-git upstream, e.g. Mercurial) |
resolution_source |
How the commit was resolved: redhat_vex (commit URL present in Red Hat's own references) or cvelist (CVE.org record) |
Construction
Downloaded the full Red Hat CSAF VEX archive from
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/and kept only CVEs with a non-emptyproduct_status.fixed.Extracted commit URLs (GitHub, GitLab, cgit, gitweb styles) from the VEX references.
Joined against the CVE.org
cvelistV5bulk dataset for additional commit references (including kernel.org CNAversionType: gitranges) and upstream affected/fixed versions.Dropped rows without a resolvable upstream commit.
Cloned each upstream repository (972 unique repos, treeless bare clones) and derived release-tag boundaries for every fix commit:
upstream_fixed_version_git= version-lowest stable tag containing the commit;upstream_last_affected_version_git= version-highest stable tag in the commit's ancestry. Verified against known ground truths (Heartbleed →OpenSSL_1_0_1g, SACK Panic →v5.2, etc.) and cross-checked against CNA-declared fixed versions (96% numeric agreement on the comparable subset).
Statistics
- 110,635 Red Hat VEX records scanned; 25,428 CVEs with fixed status, of which 7,664 have at least one resolved upstream fix commit and form this dataset (1,025 resolved from Red Hat's own references, 6,639 from CVE.org)
- Commit-resolution rate by era: ~15–25% of fixed CVEs pre-2021, 50–60% for 2022–2025 (driven largely by the Linux kernel CNA publishing fix commits) — so coverage skews toward recent CVEs
- Top components: Linux kernel (~4,200), OpenSSL, PHP, tcpdump, ghostscript, FreeRDP
- Version coverage: 7,011 rows (91.5%) with git-derived fixed version, 7,076
with git-derived last-affected version;
upstream_fixed_versionspopulated for 7,057 rows after combining CNA and git sources
Caveats
- The git-derived version fields describe the exact fix commit's history:
for projects that cherry-pick fixes onto release branches (new SHA), the
first tag containing the mainline commit can be later than the first
release that shipped a backported fix. E.g. a tcpdump fix cherry-picked
into 4.9.2 but committed on master shows
upstream_fixed_version_git: tcpdump-4.99.0. The CNA-providedupstream_fixed_versionsfield retains the release-branch view where available. - Tag names are reported verbatim (
v6.8,OpenSSL_1_0_1g,curl-7_88_1, ...) — normalize per-project if you need semver. - Commit SHAs are taken from published references; a sampled subset was
verified to exist in the claimed repositories, and every row with
version_derivation_status: okhad its commit positively resolved in a clone of the upstream repo. Multi-commit fixes may still be incomplete. upstream_repo_urlis derived from the commit URL and may point at a web UI path (cgit/gitweb) rather than a clean clone URL.- Affected/fixed version data comes from CVE.org CNA containers and varies in quality per CNA.
- A "fixed" status here means Red Hat shipped a fix in at least one product; other products may remain affected or out of support scope.
- For model benchmarking, filter on
public_daterelative to a model's knowledge cutoff to control for memorization.
Sources and license
- Red Hat CSAF VEX data © Red Hat, Inc., licensed CC BY 4.0.
- CVE records from CVE.org (CVE Program), used per the CVE Terms of Use.
This dataset is a transformation of those sources and is distributed under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot dates: VEX archive 2026-07-27, cvelistV5 2026-07-30.