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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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  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    SCA

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial
    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

  • FOSSA

    FOSSA

    SCA

    A composition analysis platform focused on license obligation management, resolving dependencies through native build tooling and generating attribution notices and SBOMs.

    Freemium
    Established

  • Mend

    Mend.io

    SCA

    A composition analysis platform combining broad ecosystem coverage, license policy and automated upgrade pull requests, with reachability analysis to prioritize what matters.

    Commercial
    Established

  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial 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

  • FOSSA

    FOSSA

    A composition analysis platform focused on license obligation management, resolving dependencies through native build tooling and generating attribution notices and SBOMs.

    Freemium Established
    SCA

  • Mend

    Mend.io

    A composition analysis platform combining broad ecosystem coverage, license policy and automated upgrade pull requests, with reachability analysis to prioritize what matters.

    Commercial Established
    SCA

  • OWASP Dependency-Check

    OWASP

    SCA

    Long running OWASP project that identifies dependencies by collecting evidence from artifacts, maps them to CPE identifiers, and reports matching CVEs from the National Vulnerability Database.

    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

  • Sonatype Lifecycle

    Sonatype

    SCA

    Commercial software composition analysis that identifies components by binary fingerprint and enforces staged security and license policy across the build and release pipeline.

    Commercial
    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

  • OWASP Dependency-Check

    OWASP

    Long running OWASP project that identifies dependencies by collecting evidence from artifacts, maps them to CPE identifiers, and reports matching CVEs from the National Vulnerability Database.

    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

  • Sonatype Lifecycle

    Sonatype

    Commercial software composition analysis that identifies components by binary fingerprint and enforces staged security and license policy across the build and release pipeline.

    Commercial 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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