Understanding the component information available from the Black Duck KB

The Black Duck KB Component Name page displays information about the open source software (OSS) component.

This page is comprised of two tabs: an Overview tab and a Settings tab.

About the Overview tab

The Overview tab displays information such as a status, description, component links, and tags, and information about each of the component versions that are available in Black Duck KB.

A graph at the top of the page shows a history of high, medium, and low vulnerabilities for each version of this component. Use this graph to quickly view vulnerability information for component versions.

Select Previous or Next to view older or newer versions.
Hover over a data point in the graph to view the version, release date, and number of vulnerabilities for this version:

To view information on versions that interest you, use the filter, located above the table, to filter the versions shown in the vulnerability graph and in the table below.

The following information is available for each version:


Column	Description
Version	Release number of this version of the component. Select the version number to display the Component Name > Version page.
Used Count	Number of project version BOMs in which this version of the OSS project is used. Tip: Select the number to go to the Details tab for this version of the OSS component. That tab lists each project and project version in which this version of the OSS component is used.
License	Declared license of this version of the OSS component. Other license types include: "Unknown" indicates that the OSS component version's license is not known. "License Not Found" indicates that although researched by Black Duck, no declared license was found for the component. "No License" indicates that Black Duck has found a declaration of 'No License' for the component. For known licenses, select the license name to view license details and license text.
Released	The date this version of the OSS component was released.
Security Risk	A graph which shows the number of high risk, medium risk, low risk, and unknown vulnerabilities associated with this version of the OSS component.

About the Settings tab

The Settings tab shows details on this component. Information shown here appears on the Overview tab.

Users with the Component Manager role can use the Settings tab to edit the description, URL, notes, and status for this KB component. Click here for information on editing component information and here for information on modifying a component's status.

Users with the System Administrator role can use the Settings tab to edit the component custom field information. as shown in the Additional Fields section.