Dependency-Track

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Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track takes a unique and highly beneficial approach by leveraging the capabilities of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). This approach provides capabilities that traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions cannot achieve.

Dependency-Track monitors component usage across all versions of every application in its portfolio in order to proactively identify risk across an organization. The platform has an API-first design and is ideal for use in CI/CD environments.

Ecosystem Overview

Features

Consumes and produces CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Consumes and produces CycloneDX Vulnerability Exploitability Exchange (VEX)
Component support for:
- Applications
- Libraries
- Frameworks
- Operating systems
- Containers
- Firmware
- Files
- Hardware
- Services
Tracks component usage across every application in an organizations portfolio
Quickly identify what is affected, and where
Identifies multiple forms of risk including
- Components with known vulnerabilities
- Out-of-date components
- Modified components
- License risk
- More coming soon...
Integrates with multiple sources of vulnerability intelligence including:
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
- GitHub Advisories
- Sonatype OSS Index
- Snyk
- Trivy
- OSV
- VulnDB from Risk Based Security
- More coming soon.
Helps to prioritize mitigation by incorporating support for the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Maintain a private vulnerability database of vulnerability components
Robust policy engine with support for global and per-project policies
- Security risk and compliance
- License risk and compliance
- Operational risk and compliance
Ecosystem agnostic with built-in repository support for:
- Cargo (Rust)
- Composer (PHP)
- Gems (Ruby)
- Hex (Erlang/Elixir)
- Maven (Java)
- NPM (Javascript)
- CPAN (Perl)
- NuGet (.NET)
- PyPI (Python)
- More coming soon.
Identifies APIs and external service components including:
- Service provider
- Endpoint URIs
- Data classification
- Directional flow of data
- Trust boundary traversal
- Authentication requirements
Includes a comprehensive auditing workflow for triaging results
Configurable notifications supporting Slack, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, Webhooks, Webex, Email and Jira
Supports standardized SPDX license ID’s and tracks license use by component
Easy to read metrics for components, projects, and portfolio
Native support for Kenna Security, Fortify SSC, ThreadFix, and DefectDojo
API-first design facilitates easy integration with other systems
API documentation available in OpenAPI format
OAuth 2.0 + OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for single sign-on (authN/authZ)
Supports internally managed users, Active Directory/LDAP, and API Keys
Simple to install and configure. Get up and running in just a few minutes

Quickstart (Docker Compose)

# Downloads the latest Docker Compose file
curl -LO https://dependencytrack.org/docker-compose.yml

# Starts the stack using Docker Compose
docker compose up -d

Quickstart (Docker Swarm)

# Downloads the latest Docker Compose file
curl -LO https://dependencytrack.org/docker-compose.yml

# Initializes Docker Swarm (if not previously initialized)
docker swarm init

# Starts the stack using Docker Swarm
docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dtrack

Quickstart (Manual Execution)

# Pull the image from the Docker Hub OWASP repo
docker pull dependencytrack/bundled

# Creates a dedicated volume where data can be stored outside the container
docker volume create --name dependency-track

# Run the bundled container with 8GB RAM on port 8080
docker run -d -m 8192m -p 8080:8080 --name dependency-track -v dependency-track:/data dependencytrack/bundled

NOTICE: Always use official binary releases in production.

Distributions

Dependency-Track has three distribution variants. They are:

Package	Package Format	Recommended	Supported	Docker	Download
API Server	Executable WAR	✅	✅	✅	✅
Frontend	Single Page Application	✅	✅	✅	✅
Bundled	Executable WAR	❌	☑️	✅	✅

API Server

The API Server contains an embedded Jetty server and all server-side functionality, but excludes the frontend user interface. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v4.0.

Frontend

The Frontend is the user interface that is accessible in a web browser. The Frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) that can be deployed independently of the Dependency-Track API Server. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v3.8.

Bundled

The Bundled variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface. This variant was previously referred to as the executable war and was the preferred distribution from Dependency-Track v3.0 - v3.8. This variant is supported but deprecated and will be discontinued in a future release.

Traditional

The Traditional variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface and must be deployed to a Servlet container. This variant is not supported, deprecated, and will be discontinued in a future release.