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Dependency-Check vs govulncheck: catalog facts
Dependency-Check	govulncheck
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
It matches dependencies to CPE identifiers and reports the linked CVEs, and it plugs into Maven, Gradle, Jenkins…	Reachability analysis cuts down on irrelevant vulnerability reports Scans either source code or compiled binaries
CPE matching produces false positives and misses, and it needs an NVD API key and a long initial…	Only covers Go code Queries the online Go vulnerability database by default
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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