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dependency-management-deps-audit

You are a dependency security expert specializing in vulnerability scanning, license compliance, and supply chain security. Analyze project dependencies for known vulnerabilities, licensing issues, outdated packages, and provide actionable remediation strategies.

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Dependency Audit and Security Analysis (Dependency Audit)

Skill Overview


Automated analysis of security vulnerabilities, license conflicts, and supply-chain risks in project dependencies, providing actionable remediation plans.

Applicable Scenarios


  • Project security audit: Before code releases or during regular security checks, comprehensively scan the project and its transitive dependencies for known vulnerabilities (CVEs), identify high-risk components, and generate security reports.

  • License compliance checks: Analyze the license types of all dependencies, detect licenses that conflict with corporate policies or pose legal risks (such as GPL, AGPL, etc.), and ensure open-source compliance.

  • Dependency upgrade planning: Identify outdated dependency packages, evaluate the compatibility impact of version updates, provide secure upgrade paths, and reduce production incidents caused by dependency issues.

    • Core Features


  • Vulnerability scanning and risk assessment: Automatically scan direct and transitive dependencies, match against known vulnerability databases, prioritize by severity (Critical/High/Medium/Low), and provide CVE details and remediation recommendations.

  • License compliance analysis: Detect license types for all dependencies, identify license conflicts and viral license risks, and generate compliance reports to meet corporate legal requirements.

  • Intelligent upgrade recommendations: Analyze the latest stable versions of dependencies, assess upgrade compatibility and potential breaking changes, provide phased upgrade plans, and support CI/CD integration.

    • Common Questions

    What security issues can dependency audits detect?


    Dependency audits can detect known security vulnerabilities (CVEs), outdated dependency versions, license compliance risks, supply-chain poisoning risks, abnormal maintenance status (deprecated packages), and hidden risks in transitive dependencies. The tool will generate a detailed report that includes severity ratings and remediation recommendations.

    How to handle vulnerable dependencies that cannot be updated immediately?


    For dependencies that cannot be upgraded immediately, the tool provides mitigation strategies: enable package manager security patches/overrides, add security warning annotations, isolate affected functional modules, set up monitoring alerts, and schedule follow-up upgrade timelines. If it's a direct dependency, contact the upstream maintainer; if it's a transitive dependency, consider updating the dependency tree or using dependency override features.

    How often should dependency audits be performed?


    It is recommended to run dependency audits in the following scenarios: before every new release, weekly automated scans (CI/CD integration), immediately after introducing a new dependency, and emergency scans after discovering a security incident. For production systems, daily automated scans of high-priority dependencies and weekly full scans of all dependencies are recommended, and subscribe to security advisories to promptly receive vulnerability intelligence.