Business Problem:

Immediate issue: open-source issue stated that trying to delete expired deferrals from the DB using the API is blocked by "Only vulnerability exceptions or updates in pending state can be deleted" (and impossible to find expired deferrals in UI.

Part of larger problem:

1. API query format, for instance to search for expired deferrals, is not clear.
2. UI lacks the ability to find, and also delete, expired deferrals.

Use Cases:

from the GitHub issue:

We are needing to extract deferral request info from ACS as the UI (to put it bluntly) is a bit rubbish for this. However we are finding a load of no longer used deferral requests and we'd like to do some housekeeping. Is it possible via the API please? (The deferrals we are wishing to remove don't show in UI as they've expired).

https://github.com/stackrox/stackrox/issues/10073 

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