Dependency-Check Ant Task can be used to check the project dependencies for published security vulnerabilities. The checks performed are a "best effort" and as such, there could be false positives as well as false negatives. However, vulnerabilities in 3rd party components is a well-known problem and is currently documented in the 2021 OWASP Top 10 as A06:2021 – Vulnerable and Outdated Components.
Documentation and links to production binary releases can be found on the github pages.
Dependency-Check is Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
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