Empty supressionfile filters some vulnerable dependencies

[Me Self]

Running the owasp dependencycheck maven plugin 3.0.1 with an empty suppressionfile.xml (content shown below) and renaming the file such that the plugin cannot find the file results in two different sets of vulnerable dependencies. There are fewer vulnerable depedencies with the empty file (a subset of the other result), how come?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<suppressions xmlns="https://jeremylong.github.io/DependencyCheck/dependency-suppression.1.1.xsd">
</suppressions>

[Hans Aikema]

Failure to find the suppression file triggers that also the built-in false positive suppression filter of DependencyCheck is no longer used to suppress false positives.

 

So the vulnerabilities that you get reported should be false positives (that under regular circumstances (no suppression file or valid suppression file configured) get suppressed by the built-in suppression list)

 

See also https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/issues/960 and the message on this mailinglist that the issue refers to.

Hans Aikema

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