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Goal Description
aggregate Runs dependency-check against the child projects and aggregates the results into a single report. Warning: if the aggregate goal is used within the site reporting a blank report will likely be present for any goal beyond site:site (i.e. site:stage or site:deploy will likely result in blank reports being staged or deployed); however, site:site will work. See issue #325 for more information.
check Runs dependency-check against the project and generates a report.
update-only Updates the local cache of the NVD data from NIST.
purge Deletes the local copy of the NVD. This is used to force a refresh of the data.

Configuration

The following properties can be set on the dependency-check-maven plugin.

Property Description Default Value
autoUpdate Sets whether auto-updating of the NVD CVE/CPE, retireJS and hosted suppressions data is enabled. It is not recommended that this be turned to false. true
format The report format to be generated (HTML, XML, CSV, JSON, JUNIT, SARIF, JENKINS, GITLAB, ALL). This configuration is ignored if formats is defined. This configuration option has no affect if using this within the Site plugin unless the externalReport is set to true. HTML
formats A list of report formats to be generated (HTML, XML, CSV, JSON, JUNIT, SARIF, JENKINS, GITLAB, ALL). This configuration overrides the value from format. This configuration option has no affect if using this within the Site plugin unless the externalReport is set to true.  
junitFailOnCVSS If using the JUNIT report format the junitFailOnCVSS sets the CVSS score threshold that is considered a failure. 0
prettyPrint Whether the XML and JSON formatted reports should be pretty printed. false
failBuildOnCVSS Specifies if the build should be failed if a CVSS score equal to or above a specified level is identified. The default is 11 which means since the CVSS scores are 0-10, by default the build will never fail. More information on CVSS scores can be found at the NVD 11
failBuildOnAnyVulnerability Specific that if any vulnerability is identified, the build will fail. false
failOnError Whether the build should fail if there is an error executing the dependency-check analysis. true
name The name of the report in the site. dependency-check or dependency-check:aggregate
outputDirectory The location to write the report(s). This can be specified on the command line via -Dodc.outputDirectory. Note, this is not used if generating the report as part of a mvn site build. ‘target’
scanSet An optional collection of file sets that specify additional files and/or directories to analyze as part of the scan. If not specified, defaults to standard Maven conventions. This cannot be configured via the command line parameters (e.g. -DscanSet=./path) - use the below scanDirectory instead. Note that the scan sets specified should be relative from the base directory - do not use Maven project variable substitution (e.g. ${project.basedir}/src/webpack). Using Maven project variable substitution can cause directories to be missed especially when using an aggregate build. [‘src/main/resources’, ‘src/main/filters’, ‘src/main/webapp’, ‘./package.json’, ‘./package-lock.json’, ‘./npm-shrinkwrap.json’, ‘./Gopkg.lock’, ‘./go.mod’]
scanDirectory An optional collection of directories to include in the scan. This configuration should only be used via the command line - if configuring the scan directories within the pom.xml please consider using the above scanSet.  
scanDependencies Sets whether the dependencies should be scanned. true
scanPlugins Sets whether the plugins and their dependencies should be scanned. false
skip Skips the dependency-check analysis. false
skipProvidedScope Skip analysis for artifacts with Provided Scope. false
skipRuntimeScope Skip analysis for artifacts with Runtime Scope. false
skipSystemScope Skip analysis for artifacts with System Scope. false
skipTestScope Skip analysis for artifacts with Test Scope. true
skipDependencyManagement Skip analysis for dependencyManagement sections. true
skipArtifactType A regular expression used to filter/skip artifact types. This filters on the type of dependency as defined in the dependency section: jar, pom, test-jar, etc.  
suppressionFiles The file paths to the XML suppression files - used to suppress false positives. The configuration value can be a local file path, a URL to a suppression file, or even a reference to a file on the class path (see https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/issues/1878#issuecomment-487533799)  
hintsFile The file path to the XML hints file - used to resolve false negatives.  
enableExperimental Enable the experimental analyzers. If not enabled the experimental analyzers (see below) will not be loaded or used. false
enableRetired Enable the retired analyzers. If not enabled the retired analyzers (see below) will not be loaded or used. false
versionCheckEnabled Whether dependency-check should check if a new version of dependency-check-maven exists. true

Analyzer Configuration

The following properties are used to configure the various file type analyzers. These properties can be used to turn off specific analyzers if it is not needed. Note, that specific analyzers will automatically disable themselves if no file types that they support are detected - so specifically disabling them may not be needed.

Property Description Default Value
archiveAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the Archive Analyzer will be used. true
zipExtensions A comma-separated list of additional file extensions to be treated like a ZIP file, the contents will be extracted and analyzed.  
excludes A list of exclude patterns to filter out maven artifacts from being scanned.  
jarAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether Jar Analyzer will be used. true
centralAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether Central Analyzer will be used; by default in the Maven plugin this analyzer is disabled as all information gained from Central is already available in the build. false
centralAnalyzerUseCache Sets whether the Central Analyer will cache results. Cached results expire after 30 days. true
dartAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Dart Analyzer will be used. true
knownExploitedEnabled Sets whether the Known Exploited Vulnerability update and analyzer are enabled. true
knownExploitedUrl Sets URL to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities JSON data feed. https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json
ossindexAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the OSS Index Analyzer will be enabled. This analyzer requires an internet connection. true
ossindexAnalyzerUseCache Sets whether the OSS Index Analyzer will cache results. Cached results expire after 24 hours. true
ossindexServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml to retrieve the credentials (username and password) to connect to OSS Index instance; not it is not required to have a registered account and use this configuration.  
ossindexAnalyzerUrl The OSS Index server URL https://ossindex.sonatype.org
ossIndexWarnOnlyOnRemoteErrors Sets whether remote errors from the OSS Index (e.g. BAD GATEWAY, RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED) will result in warnings only instead of failing execution. false
nexusAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether Nexus Analyzer will be used (requires Nexus Pro). This analyzer is superceded by the Central Analyzer; however, you can configure this to run against a Nexus Pro installation. true
nexusUrl Defines the Nexus Server's web service end point (example http://domain.enterprise/service/local/). If not set the Nexus Analyzer will be disabled.  
nexusServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml that configures the credentials (username and password) for a Nexus server's REST API end point. When not specified the communication with the Nexus server's REST API will be unauthenticated.  
nexusUsesProxy Whether or not the defined proxy should be used when connecting to Nexus. true
artifactoryAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether Artifactory analyzer will be used false
artifactoryAnalyzerUrl The Artifactory server URL.   
artifactoryAnalyzerUseProxy Whether Artifactory should be accessed through a proxy or not. false
artifactoryAnalyzerParallelAnalysis Whether the Artifactory analyzer should be run in parallel or not  true
artifactoryAnalyzerServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml to retrieve the credentials (username and API token) to connect to Artifactory instance. It is used in priority to artifactoryAnalyzerUsername and artifactoryAnalyzerApiToken artifactory
artifactoryAnalyzerUsername The user name (only used with API token) to connect to Artifactory instance  
artifactoryAnalyzerApiToken The API token to connect to Artifactory instance, only used if the username or the API key are not defined by artifactoryAnalyzerServerId,artifactoryAnalyzerUsername or artifactoryAnalyzerApiToken  
artifactoryAnalyzerBearerToken The bearer token to connect to Artifactory instance  
pyDistributionAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Python Distribution Analyzer will be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
pyPackageAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Python Package Analyzer will be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
rubygemsAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Ruby Gemspec Analyzer will be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
opensslAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the openssl Analyzer should be used. true
cmakeAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental CMake Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
autoconfAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental autoconf Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
pipAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental pip Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
pipfileAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Pipfile Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
poetryAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Poetry Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
composerAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental PHP Composer Lock File Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
composerAnalyzerSkipDev Sets whether the experimental PHP Composer Lock File Analyzer should skip “packages-dev” false
cpanfileAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Perl CPAN File Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
yarnAuditAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the Yarn Audit Analyzer should be used. This analyzer requires yarn and an internet connection. Use nodeAuditSkipDevDependencies to skip dev dependencies. true
pnpmAuditAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the Pnpm Audit Analyzer should be used. This analyzer requires pnpm and an internet connection. Use nodeAuditSkipDevDependencies to skip dev dependencies. true
pathToYarn The path to yarn.  
pathToPnpm The path to pnpm.  
nodeAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the retired Node.js Analyzer should be used. true
nodeAuditAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the Node Audit Analyzer should be used. This analyzer requires an internet connection. true
nodeAuditAnalyzerUseCache Sets whether the Node Audit Analyzer will cache results. Cached results expire after 24 hours. true
nodeAuditSkipDevDependencies Sets whether the Node Audit Analyzer will skip devDependencies. false
nodeAuditAnalyzerUrl The Node Audit API URL for the Node Audit Analyzer. https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm/v1/security/audits
nodePackageSkipDevDependencies Sets whether the Node Package Analyzer will skip devDependencies. false
retireJsAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the RetireJS Analyzer should be used. true
retireJsForceUpdate Sets whether the RetireJS Analyzer should update regardless of the autoupdate setting. false
retireJsUrl The URL to the Retire JS repository. Note the file name must be jsrepository.json. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Retirejs/retire.js/master/repository/jsrepository.json
nuspecAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the .NET Nuget Nuspec Analyzer will be used. true
nugetconfAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental .NET Nuget packages.config Analyzer will be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
libmanAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the Libman Analyzer will be used. true
cocoapodsAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Cocoapods Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
carthageAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Carthage Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
bundleAuditAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Bundle Audit Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
bundleAuditPath Sets the path to the bundle audit executable; only used if bundle audit analyzer is enabled and experimental analyzers are enabled.  
swiftPackageManagerAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Swift Package Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
swiftPackageResolvedAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the experimental Swift Package Resolved should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
assemblyAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the .NET Assembly Analyzer should be used. true
msbuildAnalyzerEnabled Sets whether the MSBuild Analyzer should be used. true
pathToCore The path to dotnet core .NET assembly analysis on non-windows systems.  
golangDepEnabled Sets whether or not the experimental Golang Dependency Analyzer should be used. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
golangModEnabled Sets whether or not the experimental Goland Module Analyzer should be used; requires go to be installed. enableExperimental must be set to true. true
pathToGo The path to go.  

RetireJS Configuration

If using the experimental RetireJS Analyzer the following configuration options are available to control the included JS files

###Example

    <retirejs>
        <filters>
            <filter>Copyright\(c\) Jeremy Long</filter>
        </filters>
        <filterNonVulnerable>true</filterNonVulnerable>
    </retirejs>
Property Description Default Value
filters A list of file content filters used to exclude JS files based on content. This is most commonly used to exclude JS files based on your organizations copyright so that your JS files do not get listed as a dependency.  
filterNonVulnerable A boolean controlling whether or not the Retire JS Analyzer should exclude non-vulnerable JS files from the report. false

Advanced Configuration

The following properties can be configured in the plugin. However, they are less frequently changed.

Note that any passwords in the below configuration could be exposed if you use -x option to debug the build. It is always better to configure the credential in your settings.xml and use the configuration to set the server id instead of placeing the password directly in the pom.xml.

Property Description Default Value
nvdApiKey The API Key to access the NVD API; obtained from https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/request-an-api-key; The nvdApiServerId configuration should be used instead to store the secret securely. If the secret is placed directly in the configuration and you use -X the secret will be written to the standard out.  
nvdApiEndpoint The NVD API endpoint URL; setting this is uncommon. https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0
nvdApiServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml that configures the credentials (password is used as ApiKey) for accessing the NVD API.  
nvdMaxRetryCount The maximum number of retry requests for a single call to the NVD API. 10
nvdApiDelay The number of milliseconds to wait between calls to the NVD API. 3500 with an NVD API Key or 8000 without an API Key .
nvdApiResultsPerPage The number records for a single page from NVD API (must be <=2000). 2000
nvdDatafeedUrl The URL for the NVD API Data feed that can be generated using https://github.com/jeremylong/Open-Vulnerability-Project/tree/main/vulnz#caching-the-nvd-cve-data - example value https://internal.server/cache/nvdcve-{0}.json.gz  
nvdDatafeedServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml that configures the credentials (username and password) for accessing the NVD API Data feed.  
nvdUser Credentials used for basic authentication for the NVD API Data feed.  
nvdPassword Credentials used for basic authentication for the NVD API Data feed. The nvdDatafeedServerId configuration should be used instead to store the secret securely. If the secret is placed directly in the configuration and you use -X the secret will be written to the standard out.  
nvdValidForHours The number of hours to wait before checking for new updates from the NVD. The default is 4 hours. 4
suppressionFileServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml that configures the credentials (username and password) for accessing the suppressionFiles.  
suppressionFileUser The username used when connecting to the suppressionFiles. Must be empty if suppressionFileServerId is specified and should be used.  
suppressionFilePassword The password used when connecting to the suppressionFiles. Must be empty if suppressionFileServerId is specified and should be used.  
connectionTimeout Sets the URL Connection Timeout (in milliseconds) used when downloading external data. 10000
readTimeout Sets the URL Read Timeout (in milliseconds) used when downloading external data. 60000
dataDirectory Sets the data directory to hold SQL CVEs contents. This should generally not be changed. ~/.m2/repository/org/owasp/dependency-check-data/
databaseDriverName The database driver full classname; note, only needs to be set if the driver is not JDBC4 compliant or the JAR is outside of the class path.  
databaseDriverPath The path to the database driver JAR file; only needs to be set if the driver is not in the class path.  
connectionString The connection string used to connect to the database. See using a database server.  
serverId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml; this can be used to encrypt the database password. See password encryption for more information.  
databaseUser The username used when connecting to the database.  
databasePassword The password used when connecting to the database.  
hostedSuppressionsEnabled Whether the hosted suppressions file will be used. true
hostedSuppressionsForceUpdate Whether the hosted suppressions file will update regardless of the autoupdate setting. false
hostedSuppressionsUrl The URL to a mirrored copy of the hosted suppressions file for internet-constrained environments. https://jeremylong.github.io/DependencyCheck/suppressions/publishedSuppressions.xml
hostedSuppressionsValidForHours Sets the number of hours to wait before checking for new updates from the NVD. 2
retireJsUrlServerId The id of a server defined in the settings.xml to retrieve the credentials (username and password) to connect to RetireJS instance.  
retireJsUser If you don't want register user/password in settings.xml, you can specify user.  
retireJsPassword If you don't want register user/password in settings.xml, you can specify user.  

Proxy Configuration

Use Maven's settings to configure a proxy server. Please see the dependency-check proxy configuration page for additional problem solving techniques. If multiple proxies are configured in the Maven settings file you must tell dependency-check which proxy to use with the following property:

Property Description Default Value
mavenSettingsProxyId The id for the proxy, configured via settings.xml, that dependency-check should use.