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Software Composition Analysis

Identify open-source dependencies and match them against known vulnerability and license data.

28 tools profiled

How it differs Checks the open source packages you depend on for known vulnerabilities and license obligations. Flaws in code you wrote are SAST territory.

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  • Anchore Grype

    Anchore

    SCA

    An open source scanner that matches the contents of container images, filesystems and SBOMs against operating system and language ecosystem vulnerability feeds.

    Open source
    Established

  • cdxgen

    CycloneDX

    SCA

    A command line SBOM generator that produces CycloneDX bills of materials from source projects, container images, binaries and operating system packages across many ecosystems.

    Open source
    Established

  • Chainguard

    Chainguard

    SCA

    A supplier of minimal, continuously rebuilt container images and language dependencies that ship with signatures, provenance and SBOMs to cut vulnerability backlog at the source.

    Commercial, free tier
    Growing

  • Crash Override

    Crash Override

    SCA

    A supply chain platform built around build-time artifact marking, linking running workloads back to the source code, pipeline and people that produced them.

    Commercial
    Emerging

  • Anchore Grype

    Anchore

    An open source scanner that matches the contents of container images, filesystems and SBOMs against operating system and language ecosystem vulnerability feeds.

    Open source Established
    SCA

  • cdxgen

    CycloneDX

    A command line SBOM generator that produces CycloneDX bills of materials from source projects, container images, binaries and operating system packages across many ecosystems.

    Open source Established
    SCA

  • Chainguard

    Chainguard

    A supplier of minimal, continuously rebuilt container images and language dependencies that ship with signatures, provenance and SBOMs to cut vulnerability backlog at the source.

    Commercial, free tier Growing
    SCA

  • Crash Override

    Crash Override

    A supply chain platform built around build-time artifact marking, linking running workloads back to the source code, pipeline and people that produced them.

    Commercial Emerging
    SCA

  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    SCA

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial
    Established

  • Renovate

    Mend

    SCA

    Dependency update bot that detects outdated packages across dozens of package managers and raises pull requests to bump them, with grouping, scheduling and automerge rules.

    Open source
    Established

  • Snyk

    Snyk

    SCA

    Resolves the full dependency tree including transitives, matches it against a curated vulnerability database, and raises fix pull requests with the minimum viable upgrade path.

    Freemium
    Established

  • Syft

    Anchore

    SCA

    Command line SBOM generator that catalogs packages in container images, filesystems and archives, emitting SPDX, CycloneDX or its own JSON format.

    Open source
    Established

  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial Established
    SCA

  • Renovate

    Mend

    Dependency update bot that detects outdated packages across dozens of package managers and raises pull requests to bump them, with grouping, scheduling and automerge rules.

    Open source Established
    SCA

  • Snyk

    Snyk

    Resolves the full dependency tree including transitives, matches it against a curated vulnerability database, and raises fix pull requests with the minimum viable upgrade path.

    Freemium Established
    SCA

  • Syft

    Anchore

    Command line SBOM generator that catalogs packages in container images, filesystems and archives, emitting SPDX, CycloneDX or its own JSON format.

    Open source Established
    SCA
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