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Background. The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable list of all the software dependencies included in a software. SBOM emerged as way to assist securing the software supply chain. However, despite mandates from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Oleksii Novikov , Davide Fucci , Oleksandr Adamov , Daniel Mendez

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming an essential tool for effective software dependency management. An SBOM is a list of components used in software, including details such as component names, versions, and licenses. Using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rio Kishimoto , Tetsuya Kanda , Yuki Manabe , Katsuro Inoue , Shi Qiu , Yoshiki Higo

The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has emerged as a promising solution, providing a machine-readable inventory of software components used, thus bolstering supply chain security. This paper presents an extensive study concerning the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tingting Bi , Boming Xia , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) have emerged as an important technology for vulnerability management amid rising supply-chain attacks. They represent component relationships within a software product and support software composition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shawn Rasheed , Max McPhee , Lisa Patterson , Stephen MacDonell , Jens Dietrich

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have emerged as tools to facilitate the management of software dependencies, vulnerabilities, licenses, and the supply chain. While significant effort has been devoted to increasing SBOM awareness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Trevor Stalnaker , Nathan Wintersgill , Oscar Chaparro , Massimiliano Di Penta , Daniel M German , Denys Poshyvanyk

The rapid growth of software supply chain attacks has attracted considerable attention to software bill of materials (SBOM). SBOMs are a crucial building block to ensure the transparency of software supply chains that helps improve software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Boming Xia , Tingting Bi , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Developers gain productivity by reusing readily available Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components. Such practices also bring some difficulties, such as managing licensing, components and related security. One approach to handle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luıs Soeiro , Thomas Robert , Stefano Zacchiroli

Modern software applications heavily rely on diverse third-party components, libraries, and frameworks sourced from various vendors and open source repositories, presenting a complex challenge for securing the software supply chain. To…

Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are increasingly regarded as essential tools for securing software supply chains (SSCs), yet their real-world use and adoption barriers remain poorly understood. This systematic literature review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Eric O'Donoghue , Yvette Hastings , Ernesto Ortiz , A. Redempta Manzi Muneza

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are essential to ensure the transparency and integrity of the software supply chain. There is a growing body of work that investigates the accuracy of SBOM generation tools and the challenges for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yogya Gamage , Nadia Gonzalez Fernandez , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable artifact that systematically organizes software information, enhancing supply chain transparency and security. To facilitate the exchange and utilization of SBOMs, organizations such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengjie Wang , Jingzheng Wu , Hao Lyu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao

Software bills of materials (SBOM) promise to become the backbone of software supply chain hardening. We deep-dive into 6 tools and the accuracy of the SBOMs they produce for complex open-source Java projects. Our novel insights reveal some…

Current software development takes advantage of many external libraries, but it entails security and copyright risks. While the use of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has been encouraged to cope with this problem, its adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wataru Otoda , Tetsuya Kanda , Yuki Manabe , Katsuro Inoue , Yoshiki Higo

The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a critical tool for securing the software supply chain (SSC), but its practical utility is undermined by inaccuracies in both its generation and its application in vulnerability scanning. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

The SolarWinds attack, which exploited weaknesses in a software update mechanism, highlights the critical need for organizations to have better visibility into their software dependencies and potential vulnerabilities associated with them.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Can Ozkan , Xinhai Zou , Dave Singelee

The Software Supply Chain (SSC) security is a critical concern for both users and developers. Recent incidents, like the SolarWinds Orion compromise, proved the widespread impact resulting from the distribution of compromised software. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Giacomo Benedetti , Serena Cofano , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provides new opportunities for automated vulnerability identification in software products. While the industry is adopting SBOM-based Vulnerability Scanning (SVS) to identify vulnerabilities, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Martin Rosso , Muhammad Asad Jahangir Jaffar , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti

Supply chain security is extremely important for modern applications running at scale in the cloud. In fact, they involve a large number of heterogeneous microservices that also include third-party software. As a result, security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jacopo Bufalino , Mario Di Francesco , Agathe Blaise , Stefano Secci

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs), which improve transparency by listing the components constituting software, are a key countermeasure to the mounting problem of Software Supply Chain attacks. SBOM generation tools take project source…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Serena Cofano , Giacomo Benedetti , Matteo Dell'Amico

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a key component for the transparency of software supply chain; it is a structured inventory of the components, dependencies, and associated metadata of a software artifact. However, an SBOM often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gianpietro Castiglione , Shahriar Ebrahimi , Narges Khakpour
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