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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

1. 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-empty product_status.fixed.

2. Extracted commit URLs (GitHub, GitLab, cgit, gitweb styles) from the VEX references.

3. Joined against the CVE.org cvelistV5 bulk dataset for additional commit references (including kernel.org CNA versionType: git ranges) and upstream affected/fixed versions.

4. Dropped rows without a resolvable upstream commit.

5. 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_versions populated 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-provided upstream_fixed_versions field 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: ok had its commit positively resolved in a clone of the upstream repo. Multi-commit fixes may still be incomplete.
• upstream_repo_url is 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_date relative 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.