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Architecture #21142

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Detect vulnerabilities in maven using osv/osv.dev

Added by Alexis Mousset almost 2 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
N/A
Assignee:
-
Category:
Security
Effort required:
Name check:
To do
Fix check:
To do
Regression:
No

Description

Currently we rely on dependency-check-maven which uses the CVE databse and tries to match maven packages based on CPEs which is not realiable.

We often get false positives (e.g. a chrome extension with the same name as a maven package).

The proper way to track vulnerabilities is to use a proper detection process, which is the goal of OSV (the format) / osv.dev (the database, synced from different sources includes Github advisories, which announces main vulnerabilities in the maven ecosystem).

We can try to use https://github.com/G-Rath/osv-detector to check pom.xml file for known vulnerabilities in osv.dev.

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