Understanding how to search in Black Duck

You can search using the following categories:

  • Projects: These are the projects that your company's developers are coding. For Black Duck to index basic project information for search, someone must create one or more projects.
    Note: The information that you provide about your projects is not shared outside of your company.

  • Components and the Black Duck KnowledgeBase: These are the components that comprise your projects and are viewable in your BOM or it is the components in the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, which is a comprehensive database of open source software (OSS) components.

  • Vulnerabilities: Security vulnerabilities that impact components and, as a result, which may impact your projects can be searched for by BDSA number, CVE number, or another identifier, for example, "CVE-2014-0160", "Heartbleed", and so on.

You can also perform a global search which searches for your term in all categories. Enter the term in the search field located at the top of the page and press Enter or click Search icon. Select a category to view the search results.

Note that entering a global search term initiates a new search and resets any filters you previously selected on the Projects, Components, Vulnerabilities, or Black Duck KnowledgeBase tabs.