aquasecurity/trivy

enhancement(cyclonedx): use `component.evidence.occurrences.location` for filapaths and linenumber

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#9,832 opened on Nov 20, 2025

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Description

Description

In CycloneDX 1.5, the location and line fields were added under component.evidence.occurrences. These are fields we can use in Trivy:

  1. location can be used instead of property.filePath
  2. line can be used if Trivy supports detecting line numbers for that file

Example:

https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-go/blob/72e4629d580624c7d6bd815e2d209a0a62d08047/testdata/valid-evidence.json#L74-L77

Discussed in https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/9823

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Research direction
Study the CycloneDX 1.5 evidence occurrences schema and locate where Trivy currently uses property.filePath. Determine how to replace or supplement with location and line fields, ensuring backward compatibility.
Tech stack
go
Domain
securitycli
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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GoCycloneDXSBOM
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55