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CycloneDX - OWASP Project

OWASP CycloneDX is a full-stack Bill of Materials (BOM) standard that provides advanced supply chain capabilities for cyber risk reduction.

CycloneDX Specification is Copyright (c) OWASP Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

The specification supports

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
  • Software-as-a-Service Bill of Materials (SaaSBOM)
  • Hardware Bill of Materials (HBOM)
  • Machine Learning Bill of Materials (ML-BOM)
  • Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM)
  • Operations Bill of Materials (OBOM)
  • Vulnerability Disclosure Reports (VDR)
  • Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX).

CycloneDX in comparison with its peers

CycloneDX builds on top of the work SPDX - The Software Package Data Exchange has accomplished with license IDs, but varies greatly in its approach towards building a software bill of material specification.

The CycloneDX specification compliments this work as CycloneDX documents can incorporate SWID - Software Identification Tagging tags and other high-level SWID metadata and optionally include entire SWID documents. Use of SWID tag ID's are useful in determining if a specific component has known vulnerabilities.

The CycloneDX specification compliments CPE - Common Platform Enumeration as CycloneDX documents can easily be used to construct exact CPE identifiers that are useful in determining if a specific component has known vulnerabilities.

Key Online Resources

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