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As discussed in this Zulip thread, we can do more to check for CVEs impacting dependencies in SciJava-based projects:
- Any build extending pom-scijava-base (either directly or indirectly via pom-scijava) should have an easily accessible build mode (goal, profile, whatever) for running the
dependency-check-maven-plugin
fromorg.owasp
to check its dependency tree for security issues. - Any BOM extend pom-scijava-base (notably pom-scijava, but not necessarily limited to that) should be able to invoke the
dependency-check-maven-plugin
as well on all managed components, not just active dependencies. - Trickier are managed JAR components that wrap native code. It might be limitedly possible to catch them with the
dependency-check-maven-plugin
by ensuring all the scanning modes are enabled:but it's imperfect at best.<configuration> <assemblyAnalyzerEnabled>true</assemblyAnalyzerEnabled> <archiveAnalyzerEnabled>true</archiveAnalyzerEnabled> <jarAnalyzerEnabled>true</jarAnalyzerEnabled> </configuration>
We do already use Dependabot on GitHub with both pom-scijava-base and pom-scijava, but it has not reported much of anything in recent years, so I wonder how effective those scans actually are.
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