# owasp-scan > OWASP dependency vulnerability scan - Use OWASP Dependency-Check to detect known CVE vulnerabilities in project dependencies - Author: wangjianjq - Repository: wwjj999/Skill - Version: 20260208111240 - Stars: 0 - Forks: 0 - Last Updated: 2026-02-08 - Source: https://github.com/wwjj999/Skill - Web: https://mule.run/skillshub/@@wwjj999/Skill~owasp-scan:20260208111240 --- --- name: owasp-scan description: OWASP dependency vulnerability scan - Use OWASP Dependency-Check to detect known CVE vulnerabilities in project dependencies --- # OWASP Security Scan Skill ## 📋 Overview Use **OWASP Dependency-Check** to scan project dependencies, detecting: - 🔒 Known CVE vulnerabilities - 📊 NVD database comparison - 📋 Compliance report generation - 🚨 High-risk vulnerability alerts ## 🔧 Prerequisites | Tool | Min Version | Installation | |------|-------------|--------------| | Java | 11+ | [adoptium.net](https://adoptium.net/) | | OWASP Dependency-Check | 12.0+ | [Download CLI](https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/releases) | **Optional**: Apply for [NVD API Key](https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/request-an-api-key) to speed up scanning ## 🚀 Usage **Scan current project:** ```bash .\.agent\skills\owasp-scan\scripts\scan.ps1 ``` **Specify scan directory:** ```bash .\.agent\skills\owasp-scan\scripts\scan.ps1 -Path .\src ``` **Use NVD API Key:** ```bash $env:NVD_API_KEY = "your-api-key" .\.agent\skills\owasp-scan\scripts\scan.ps1 ``` **Generate HTML report:** ```bash .\.agent\skills\owasp-scan\scripts\scan.ps1 -Format html ``` ## 🎯 Detection Scope ### Supported Languages/Tools - ✅ Python (pip, pipenv, poetry) - ✅ JavaScript/TypeScript (npm, yarn, pnpm) - ✅ Java (Maven, Gradle) - ✅ .NET (NuGet) - ✅ Ruby (Bundler) - ✅ Go (go.mod) - ✅ PHP (Composer) ### Scan Content - CVE vulnerability IDs - CVSS scores (2.0 / 3.x) - Affected version ranges - Recommended fix versions ## 📊 Output Example ``` 🔒 OWASP Dependency-Check - Scanning project dependencies... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 Dependencies found: 45 🔍 Scanning vulnerability database... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❌ CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) Package: requests@2.25.0 CVE: CVE-2023-32681 Description: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header Recommendation: Upgrade to requests >= 2.31.0 ⚠️ HIGH (CVSS 7.5) Package: django@3.2.0 CVE: CVE-2023-31047 Description: Potential denial-of-service in file uploads Recommendation: Upgrade to django >= 3.2.19 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 Scan Results: ❌ Critical: 1 ⚠️ High: 1 ⚠️ Medium: 3 💡 Low: 2 📄 Detailed report: ./dependency-check-report.html ``` ## ⚙️ Configuration Create `dependency-check.properties`: ```properties # NVD API Key nvd.api.key=${NVD_API_KEY} # Suppress false positives suppression.file=./dependency-suppression.xml # Scan timeout (seconds) connection.timeout=30 # Only report specific severity levels failBuildOnCVSS=7.0 # Project name project=MyProject ``` Create false positive suppression file `dependency-suppression.xml`: ```xml False positive - not using vulnerable functionality CVE-2023-12345 Dev dependency only ^org\.example:test-utils:.*$ ``` ## 🔄 CI/CD Integration ### GitHub Actions ```yaml name: OWASP Dependency Check on: [push, pull_request] jobs: security-scan: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Run OWASP Dependency-Check uses: dependency-check/Dependency-Check_Action@main with: project: 'MyProject' path: '.' format: 'HTML' env: NVD_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NVD_API_KEY }} - name: Upload Report uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: dependency-check-report path: dependency-check-report.html ``` ## 🆘 FAQ **Q: Is NVD API Key required?** A: Not required but strongly recommended. Without API Key, updates are slow (<10 req/min) **Q: How to handle false positives?** A: Use `dependency-suppression.xml` file to suppress false positives **Q: Scan is slow, what can I do?** A: 1) Use NVD API Key 2) Cache NVD database 3) Incremental scan **Q: Does it support private repositories?** A: Yes, but private library vulnerability info needs to be public in NVD ## 🔗 Related Resources - [OWASP Dependency-Check Official](https://owasp.org/www-project-dependency-check/) - [NVD Database](https://nvd.nist.gov/) - [CVE Details](https://cve.mitre.org/)