SBOMValidate

SBOMValidate is a free, open source tool to validate a SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) against the specifications for SPDX and CycloneDX.

It is intended to be used as part of a continuous integration system to ensure only valid SBOMs are processed.

Installation

To install use the following command:

pip install sbomvalidate

Alternatively, just clone the repo and install dependencies using the following command:

pip install -U -r requirements.txt

The tool requires Python 3 (3.7+). It is recommended to use a virtual python environment especially if you are using different versions of python. virtualenv is a tool for setting up virtual python environments which allows you to have all the dependencies for the tool set up in a single environment, or have different environments set up for testing using different versions of Python.

Usage

usage: sbomvalidate [-h] [-i INPUT_FILE] [--debug] [-V]

SBOMvalidate validates a SBOM.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit

Input:
  -i INPUT_FILE, --input-file INPUT_FILE
                        Name of SBOM file
  --debug               add debug information

Operation

The --input-file option is used to specify the SBOM to be processed. The format of the SBOM is determined according to the following filename conventions.

For CycloneDX SBOMs, versions 1.3, 1.4. 1.5 and 1.6 are supported; for SPDX SBOMs, versions 2.2 and 2.3 are supported.

The --debug option is used to provide more information on the validation process. The default is for no information to be reported.

Return Values

The return value indicates the validity of the SBOM

0 indicates that the SBOM has been validated 1 indicates that the SBOM failed to validate

Example usage

sbomvalidate -i <goodsbomfilename>
echo $?
0
sbomvalidate -i <badsbomfilename>
echo $?
1

Licence

Licenced under the Apache 2.0 Licence.

Limitations

The validation of SPDX SBOMs in RDF, TagValue and XML formats is limited to detecting the presence of key tags in the document.

Feedback and Contributions

Bugs and feature requests can be made via GitHub Issues.