OWASP Dependency-Track vs TRUSCA

OWASP Dependency-Track is a free, self-hosted platform for managing software-component risk across a supply chain. It builds inventories from software bills of materials and identifies vulnerable components, supporting CycloneDX SBOM, HBOM, VEX, and VDR documents for ingestion, analysis, and production. Components can be matched against NVD, GitHub Advisories, OSV, OSS Index, Snyk, Trivy, and VulnDB, while integrated EPSS support helps prioritize mitigation. Integrity checks flag components when published hashes differ from those served by an upstream registry. A Common Expression Language policy engine evaluates component rules and can break a build when a policy fails. Alerts can be filtered by event fields and sent to Slack, Teams, Mattermost, email, or webhooks. API and web interfaces are available, with least-privilege portfolio access and single sign-on through OpenID Connect, Active Directory, and LDAP. Version 5.1 uses separate API and frontend container images, supports Kubernetes, and requires PostgreSQL.

TRUSCA is a free, open-source, self-hosted software composition analysis platform for CVE tracking, license compliance, and SBOM management. It uses cdxgen to detect packages across more than 30 language ecosystems, while Trivy matches components with NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisory, EPSS, and KEV data. Weekly database refreshes add new CVEs. TRUSCA imports CycloneDX or SPDX SBOMs and exports CycloneDX in JSON or XML and SPDX in JSON or Tag-Value. CI integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins examples, a REST API, and API keys; build gates can fail on Critical CVEs or forbidden licenses. License workflows classify licenses as allowed, conditional, or forbidden, generate NOTICE files, and block forbidden licenses. The platform also offers approvals, an append-only audit log, email, Slack, Teams notifications, VEX triage, and EPSS prioritization. It runs through Docker Compose or Helm. It does not analyze users’ own source code.