Vulnerabilities API - POST mute vulnerabilities

Reference

Mutes multiple vulnerabilities. Muted vulnerabilities are hidden from the vulnerability list in Dynatrace.

The request consumes an application/json payload.

POST	SaaS	`https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/securityProblems/mute`
POST	Environment ActiveGateCluster ActiveGate	`https://{your-activegate-domain}:9999/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/securityProblems/mute`

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with securityProblems.write scope.

To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
body	SecurityProblemsBulkMute	The JSON body of the request. Contains the muting information.	body	optional

Request body objects

The `SecurityProblemsBulkMute` object

Information on muting several security problems.

Element	Type	Description	Required
comment	string	A comment about the muting reason.	optional
reason	string	The reason for muting the security problems. `CONFIGURATION_NOT_AFFECTED` `FALSE_POSITIVE` `IGNORE` `OTHER` `VULNERABLE_CODE_NOT_IN_USE`	required
securityProblemIds	string[]	The ids of the security problems to be muted.	required

Request body JSON model

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request.

{
 "comment": "string",
 "reason": "CONFIGURATION_NOT_AFFECTED",
 "securityProblemIds": [
 "string"
 ]
}

Response

Response codes

Code	Type	Description
200	SecurityProblemsBulkMuteResponse	Success. The security problem(s) have been muted.
4XX	ErrorEnvelope	Client side error.
5XX	ErrorEnvelope	Server side error.

Response body objects

The `SecurityProblemsBulkMuteResponse` object

Response of muting several security problems.

Element	Type	Description
summary	SecurityProblemBulkMutingSummary[]	The summary of which security problems were muted and which already were muted previously.

The `SecurityProblemBulkMutingSummary` object

Summary of (un-)muting a security problem.

Element	Type	Description
muteStateChangeTriggered	boolean	Whether a mute state change for the given security problem was triggered by this request.
reason	string	Contains a reason, in case the requested operation was not executed. `ALREADY_MUTED` `ALREADY_UNMUTED`
securityProblemId	string	The id of the security problem that was (un-)muted.

Response body JSON model

{
 "summary": [
 {
 "muteStateChangeTriggered": true,
 "reason": "ALREADY_MUTED",
 "securityProblemId": "string"
 }
 ]
}

Example

Mute two vulnerabilities, 2919200225913269102 and 4537041069803077238, as the configuration isn't affected.

Curl

curl -X 'POST' 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/securityProblems/mute' \
-H 'accept: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token [your_token]' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
-d '{
 "comment": "Example mute batch",
 "reason": "CONFIGURATION_NOT_AFFECTED",
 "securityProblemIds": [
 "2919200225913269102", "4537041069803077238"
 ]
}'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/securityProblems/mute

Request body

{
 "comment": "Example mute batch",
 "reason": "CONFIGURATION_NOT_AFFECTED",
 "securityProblemIds": [
 "2919200225913269102", "4537041069803077238"
 ]
}

Response body

{
 "summary": [
 {
 "securityProblemId": "2919200225913269102",
 "muteStateChangeTriggered": true
 },
 {
 "securityProblemId": "4537041069803077238",
 "muteStateChangeTriggered": true
 }
 ]
}