Detecting Vulnerable Dependencies with Maven and the OWASP Dependency Check Plugin

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0200

On the one hand adding dependencies to a project is easy, on the other hand securing a project and checking for vulnerable dependencies is way harder.

The OWASP dependency check plugin for Maven allows us to scan our project’s dependencies for know vulnerabilities.

I will demonstrate its usage in the following short example.

Figure 1. OWASP Vulnerability Report

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We just need to add one plugin-dependency to our Mavenized project’s pom.xml.

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Detecting Vulnerable Dependencies with Maven and the OWASP Dependency Check Plugin

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