Internet Access Required

The NVD Database

OWASP dependency-check maintains a local copy of the NVD API's CVE data hosted by NIST. By default, a local H2 database instance is used. As each instance maintains its own copy of the NVD the machine will need access to nvd.nist.gov in order to download the NVD data feeds. While the initial download of the NVD data feed is large, if after the initial download the tool is run at least once every seven days only two small XML files containing the recent modifications will need to be downloaded.

In some installations OpenJDK may not be able to access the NVD API. Please see the TLS Failures article for more information.

If your build servers are using dependency-check and are unable to access the Internet you have a few options:

1. Configure the proxy settings so that the build server can access the Internet
2. Mirror the NVD locally within your organization
3. Build the H2 database on one node and cache the H2 database.
4. Use a more robust centralized database with a single update node
5. In GitHub Actions utilize the cache action; example here.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

with version 8.0.0 access to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is required. If running on a system with limited network access there are three options:

1. Add https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json to the allow list.
2. Mirror https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json locally.
3. Disable the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Analyzer.

Retire JS Repository

The RetireJS Analyzes must download the RetireJS Repository. If this is blocked users must either mirror the JS Repository or disable the Retire JS Analyzer.

Hosted base suppressions file

For a faster roundtrip time (issue #4723) to get false-positive report solution out to the users dependency-check starting from version 8.0.0 is using an online hosted suppressions file. For environments with constraints to internet access this file can be locally mirrored by customizing the hostedsuppressions file URL. See the tool-specific configuration documentation on the github pages for the exact advanced configuration flag to specify the custom location. Failure to download the hosted suppressions file will result in only a warning from the tool, but may result in false positives being reported by your scan that have already been mitigated by the hosted suppressions file.

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