Integrates Dependency-Check reports into SonarQube v6.3 or higher.

Please see the SonarQube 5.x branch for older SonarQube 5.x support

Dependency-Check is a utility that attempts to detect publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within project dependencies. It does this by determining if there is a Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) identifier for a given dependency. If found, it will generate a report linking to the associated CVE entries.

Dependency-Check supports the identification of project dependencies in a number of different languages including Java, .NET, and Python.

The plugin keeps track of a number of statistics including:

• Total number of dependencies scanned
• Total number of vulnerabilities found across all dependencies
• Total number of vulnerable components
• Total number of high, medium, and low severity vulnerabilities

Additionally, the following two metrics are defined:

Inherited Risk Score (IRS)

(high * 5) + (medium * 3) + (low * 1)

The IRS is simply a weighted measurement of the vulnerabilities inherited by the application through the use of vulnerable components. It does not measure the applications actual risk due to those components. The higher the score the more risk the application inherits.

Vulnerable Component Ratio

(vulnerabilities / vulnerableComponents)

This is simply a measurement of the number of vulnerabilities to the vulnerable components (as a percentage). A higher percentage indicates that a large number of components contain vulnerabilities. Lower percentages are better.

$ mvn clean package

Ready to use binaries are available from bintray as well as GitHub.

Copy the plugin (jar file) to $SONAR_INSTALL_DIR/extensions/plugins and restart SonarQube.

Dependency-Check will output a file named 'dependency-check-report.xml' when asked to output XML. The Dependency-Check SonarQube plugin reads an existing Dependency-Check XML report.

A typical SonarQube configuration will have the following parameter. This example assumes the use of a Jenkins workspace, but can easily be altered for other CI/CD systems.

sonar.dependencyCheck.reportPath=${WORKSPACE}/dependency-check-report.xml
sonar.dependencyCheck.htmlReportPath=${WORKSPACE}/dependency-check-report.html

In this example, both the XML and HTML reports are specified. Only the XML report is required, however, if the HTML report is also available, it greatly enhances the usability of the SonarQube plugin by incorporating the actual Dependency-Check HTML report in the SonarQube project.

Dependency-Check is available as a:

• Command-line utility
• Ant Task
• Gradle Plugin
• Jenkins Plugin
• Maven Plugin
• SonarQube Plugin

NOTE: The Sonar plugin does not generate reports, it reads existing reports. Use one of the other available methods to scan project dependencies and generate the necessary XML report.

Dependency-Check Sonar Plugin is Copyright (c) Steve Springett. All Rights Reserved.

Dependency-Check is Copyright (c) Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.

Permission to modify and redistribute is granted under the terms of the LGPLv3 license.