Two recipes could not see CVEs at all. mattermost-lts has an empty GitHub advisory
feed and renders its security bulletins client-side, so a text sweep finds nothing;
mumble publishes nothing anywhere the registry points. Both returned '?' - nothing
measured - which is honest but useless.
NVD is CPE-indexed and carries structured version ranges, so it answers where the
vendor does not. Declared per recipe as 'nvd-cpe: <image> = <cpe:2.3:...>'.
mattermost-lts 10.5.0 -> 10.12.4 165 CVEs
mattermost-lts 10.11.22 -> 10.12.4 0 CVEs (measured, not unknown)
mumble 1.3.0 -> 1.6.870 2 CVEs
Both NVD range forms are used: versionEndExcluding is a patched version;
versionEndIncluding means the fix version is unpublished but the upgrade delivers
it whenever it crosses X.
That 0 for the actual mattermost upgrade is the interesting one, and it needed a
new rule to be correct: a fix on the line you upgrade FROM was already yours.
mattermost patches every maintained line at once, so 10.11.22 -> 10.12.4 crosses
10.12.1 while 10.11.22 already had the 10.11.4 backport. Without the rule the scan
claimed 12 CVEs the upgrade did not deliver.
The rule is skipped for placeholders: '7.4.X' parses to a bare 7.4 and would read
as 'already fixed at 7.4', which silently dropped redis CVE-2024-46981 and took
discourse 140 -> 139 before I caught it.
79 tests. discourse 140 / gitea 2 / mailu 2 / keycloak 12 / plausible 6 unchanged.
Fleet sweep: 0 recipes with no usable CVE source, down from 2.
The 2026-08-07 regeneration rendered '?' for 5 of 21 recipes. '?' is meant to be a
rare 'we tried and could not tell'; at that rate it is indistinguishable from noise
and hides the real unknowns. Three causes, none of them genuine uncertainty:
1. URL EXTRACTION BUG (mine). The registry is markdown, so urls appear inside
`backticks` and 'quotes'. The extractor captured the trailing punctuation, so
it fetched https://docs.n8n.io/release-notes/` and https://git.autonomic.zone'`
— both 404 on the malformed url, both 200 when clean. Trailing markdown
punctuation is now stripped. Fixed immich + n8n.
2. STALE REGISTRY URL. mattermost-lts pointed at
docs.mattermost.com/about/mattermost-changelog.html, which 404s; the page moved
to /deploy/. Corrected (same class as the pgautoupgrade fix).
3. WRONG SEMANTICS FOR 'NO UPGRADE'. lasuite-docs and custom-html-tiny were
up-to-date this run, so no scan block existed and the report fell back to '?'.
But a recipe with no upgrade has nothing an upgrade could have fixed — that is
0, not unknown. The report skill now says so explicitly, restricts '?' to scans
that RAN and reported genuinely failed sources, states that benign notes
(no-advisories-published / template URL) never trigger '?', and instructs that
many '?' is itself a bug to raise in the Addendum.
Result across all 16 scanned recipes of that run: 0 failed sources (was 5).
Counts also improved with the classifier fix: discourse 130->133, keycloak ->7.
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