Suppress a known vulnerability in OSV-Scanner using an osv-scanner.toml IgnoredVulns entry with an expiry date
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Verified steps
Place an osv-scanner.toml file in the same directory as the lockfile/manifest being scanned (config does not propagate to child directories); to apply one config across multiple directories instead, pass --config=/path/to/config.toml to override per-directory discovery for the whole scan.
Add a [[IgnoredVulns]] table for each vulnerability to suppress, setting id to the OSV/CVE/GHSA identifier you want ignored.
Set ignoreUntil to a bare TOML local date in YYYY-MM-DD format, unquoted (e.g. ignoreUntil = 2026-11-09) — not an RFC3339 timestamp string. This is optional; once the date passes, the ignore expires and osv-scanner resumes failing on that id.
Add a reason string field documenting why the exception exists, for audit/reviewability.
Be aware that ignoring a vulnerability id also ignores any vulnerabilities OSV considers aliases of that id, so check the aliases in scan output before assuming a suppression is narrowly scoped.
Re-run osv-scanner and confirm the suppressed id no longer appears in findings until ignoreUntil passes.
Known gotchas
ignoreUntil must be a bare TOML date literal (YYYY-MM-DD, no quotes) — wrapping it in quotes turns it into a string value rather than a date, which is not the documented form and can behave unexpectedly.
osv-scanner.toml only applies to files in the same directory as the config file, not subdirectories, so multi-module repos need a config per directory or a single --config override applied to the whole scan.
Ignoring an id also ignores its aliases, so a suppression intended for one advisory can silently suppress a different-looking but aliased CVE/GHSA too.
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