PDF report contents missing when fetched usin gvm-cli

Building from Source and Advanced Topics Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP)
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Hi,

I’m using Greenbone Community Containers with the recommended docker-compose setup. I have used gvm-tools container to run gvm-cli commands and managed to run some scans.
I can see results and download PDF reports through UI, but when trying to get the same report using gvm-cli’s <get_reports> command, the resulted pdf-file’s only real contents is the first paragraph under Summary. Rest of the two paged document is empty and only shows boilerplate texts and empty result -table under Result Overview and Result per Host topics. All actual results are missing.
This only happens with the gvm-cli, reports downloaded through UI are fine.

Docs talk about “lean” attribute that requests a reduced report, but it doesn’t seem to change the PDF report output.
https://docs.greenbone.net/API/GMP/gmp-22.6.html#command_get_reports

Am I missing something obvious here?

$ gvm-cli --gmp-username $USER --gmp-password $PASS socket --xml '<get_version/>'
<get_version_response status="200" status_text="OK"><version>22.6</version></get_version_response>

$ gvm-cli --gmp-username $USER --gmp-password $PASS socket --xml '<get_reports report_id="UUIDHERE" format_id="c402cc3e-b531-11e1-9163-406186ea4fc5"/>'
<get_reports_response status="200" status_text="OK">...LONG_XML_FILE_INCLUDING_BASE64_ENCODED_REPORT_CONTENTS...</get_reports_response>
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Hi,

did you take a look at gvm-tools/scripts/export-pdf-report.gmp.py at main · greenbone/gvm-tools · GitHub already?

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Thanks for pointers! I hadn’t tested any python based scripts.

Looks like this issue is related to how reports are filtered by default.

I tested export-pdf-report.gmp.py and got a full report including Log -level results.
When using export-pdf-report.gmp.py with details=False, I got the same empty report that was returned by gvm-cli earlier.

Filters were the thing I was missing. I need to read the docs a bit more, but looks like if I just configure those, the pdf reports start to look like what I was expecting.

As a feedback: current documentation example seems to produce empty reports where all threat levels are filtered out. This is quite confusing
https://docs.greenbone.net/API/GMP/gmp-22.6.html#command_get_reports

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