Open-source maintainers overwhelmed by trivial CVE spam
Maintainers of self-hosted open-source projects are increasingly targeted by opportunistic bug bounty hunters filing low-severity, nitpick vulnerability reports and demanding immediate public disclosure. The volume of noise drowns out legitimate reports and the social pressure to disclose prematurely creates operational risk. No tool exists to help maintainers triage and throttle this abuse while preserving genuine responsible disclosure.
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