{"meta":{"title":"Editing security advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database","intro":"Improve advisories published in the GitHub Advisory Database by making community contributions.","product":"Security and code quality","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/code-security","title":"Security and code quality"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos","title":"How-tos"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos/report-and-fix-vulnerabilities","title":"Report and fix vulnerabilities"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos/report-and-fix-vulnerabilities/fix-reported-vulnerabilities","title":"Fix vulnerabilities"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos/report-and-fix-vulnerabilities/fix-reported-vulnerabilities/editing-security-advisories-in-the-github-advisory-database","title":"Edit Advisory Database"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# Editing security advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database\n\nImprove advisories published in the GitHub Advisory Database by making community contributions.\n\n1. Navigate to [https://github.com/advisories](https://github.com/advisories?ref_product=security-advisories\\&ref_type=engagement\\&ref_style=text).\n2. Select the security advisory you would like to contribute to.\n3. On the right-hand side of the page, click the **Suggest improvements for this vulnerability** link.\n4. In the \"Improve security advisory\" form, make the desired improvements. You can edit or add any detail. For information about correctly specifying information on the form, including affected versions, see [Best practices for writing repository security advisories](/en/code-security/security-advisories/guidance-on-reporting-and-writing-information-about-vulnerabilities/best-practices-for-writing-repository-security-advisories).\n5. Under **Reason for change**, explain why you want to make this improvement. If you include links to supporting material this will help our reviewers.\n6. When you finish editing the advisory, click **Submit improvements**.\n7. Once you submit your community contribution, a pull request containing your changes will be created for review in [github/advisory-database](https://github.com/github/advisory-database) by the GitHub Security Lab curation team. If the advisory originated from a GitHub repository, we will also tag the original publisher for optional commentary. You can view the pull request and get notifications when it is updated or closed.\n\nYou can also open a pull request directly on an advisory file in the [github/advisory-database](https://github.com/github/advisory-database) repository. For more information, see the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)."}