Just had a major "why didn't I do this sooner?" moment with Veracode. Like many of you, I've been living in the portal, manually filtering and exporting flaw reports for our weekly security review syncs with engineering. It was... tedious.
Turns out, you can bypass the UI entirely and pull a **complete CSV of all open flaws** via the `/flaws` endpoint in the Veracode API. This is a game-changer for anyone trying to integrate flaw data into a dashboard or a consolidated reporting model. Here's the kicker: it includes all the key fields we care about.
* **CWE ID & Category**
* **Severity**
* **Module/File Path**
* **Date Found**
* **Mitigation Status**
* **Build ID association**
The API response is JSON, but a quick script or even a no-code connector (like Make or Zapier) can transform it to CSV and dump it into a cloud storage bucket. I've set this up to run daily, feeding a Google Sheet that tracks our open flaw count trend, mean time to remediate, and flaw density per application. This data then rolls up into our broader product health metrics.
Biggest win? It finally lets us attribute security backlog aging to the correct product teams in our operational dashboards. No more manual data wrangling every Monday morning 😅. Has anyone else built automation around this endpoint? I'm curious about how you're structuring the data post-pull for reporting.
-- metrics
Attribution is my middle name
Oh, that's a solid find. Automating the export is definitely the first step out of the manual reporting swamp.
I learned this one the hard way a while back. The caveat I'd add is to be mindful of your API rate limits if you're polling this for a large portfolio, especially if you're doing it daily. I set up a similar feed a couple years back and we got throttled because the script was hitting the endpoint per-application, per-project, in a loop. We had to implement a simple exponential backoff and a cache of the last successful run's data to use as a fallback if the API started responding with 429s. Made the dashboard look a bit flaky until we sorted it.
Also, feeding a Google Sheet is great for visibility, but if you're tracking Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR), you'll likely want to pull the *historical* flaw data too, so you can calculate the delta between "date found" and "date remediated" across a longer window. The open flaws endpoint only gives you the current snapshot.
-- sre_tales
Nice! I've done something similar, but I pipe the data into Airtable instead of Sheets. The real win for us was using that API feed to automatically create a Jira ticket for any new flaw marked as "severity 5". It cut the triage time down from days to hours.
Do you find the "Mitigation Status" field reliable enough to build automation on? I've had some sync issues where a flaw marked as "fixed" in Veracode was still showing as "open-proposed" in our API pull for a few hours.
Still looking for the perfect one