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fix: correct Apache Derby group ID in purl generation - #5090

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Apache Derby jars (derby, derbyshared, derbytools, …) are OSGi bundles that ship no pom.properties/pom.xml. With no pom metadata, syft falls through to the manifest heuristic (groupIDFromJavaManifest), which walks PrimaryJavaManifestGroupIDFields and returns the first value starting with a TLD prefix. For Derby that is Bundle-Activator: org.apache.derby.osgi.EmbeddedActivator (Bundle-SymbolicName: derby is skipped because it has no TLD prefix).

The result is a wrong purl:

  • before: pkg:maven/org.apache.derby.osgi.EmbeddedActivator/derby@10.16.1.1
  • after: pkg:maven/org.apache.derby/derby@10.16.1.1

Because the group ID is wrong, downstream matchers (e.g. grype's Maven/GHSA matcher, which does not use CPEs for Java by default) fail to match advisories like GHSA-rcjc-c4pj-xxrp / CVE-2022-46337 (Critical), even though the jar is clearly the affected org.apache.derby:derby.

This adds the Derby artifacts to DefaultArtifactIDToGroupID so the known-package-list step (which runs before the manifest heuristic) supplies the correct group ID. All six are published under org.apache.derby on Maven Central.

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Built syft with this change and cataloged real Derby jars from Maven Central:

jar purl (after fix) grype (default config)
derby-10.16.1.1.jar (vulnerable) pkg:maven/org.apache.derby/derby@10.16.1.1 detects GHSA-rcjc-c4pj-xxrp (Critical) — previously missed
derby-10.17.1.0.jar (fixed, latest) pkg:maven/org.apache.derby/derby@10.17.1.0 no findings — no false positive on the patched version

Before the fix the purl was pkg:maven/org.apache.derby.osgi.EmbeddedActivator/derby@…; the stray apache:EmbeddedActivator / apache:osgi CPE candidates are also gone. For jars that do embed pom metadata the pom-based steps still take precedence, so the map entry only applies when the coordinates are otherwise unavailable.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

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@wagoodman could you approve the workflows?

Apache Derby artifacts use the group ID org.apache.derby, but their jars
are OSGi bundles that ship no pom metadata. syft's manifest heuristic then
picks up Bundle-Activator (org.apache.derby.osgi.EmbeddedActivator) as the
group ID, producing an incorrect purl like
pkg:maven/org.apache.derby.osgi.EmbeddedActivator/derby@10.16.1.1 instead of
pkg:maven/org.apache.derby/derby@10.16.1.1. The bad group ID prevents grype
from matching Maven/GHSA advisories such as GHSA-rcjc-c4pj-xxrp
(CVE-2022-46337).

Add the Derby artifacts to the DefaultArtifactIDToGroupID map so the known
package list takes precedence over the manifest heuristic:
- derby
- derbyclient
- derbynet
- derbyoptionaltools
- derbyshared
- derbytools

Signed-off-by: Ankush Pathak <ankush.pathak@chainguard.dev>

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LGTM, thanks 👍

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kzantow merged commit f91bf45 into anchore:main Aug 27, 2026
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syft 1.51.1

Created-by: HarmonybrewBot
Commit-by: HarmonybrewBot
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Description: Created by `brew bump`

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Created with `brew bump-formula-pr`.<details>
  <summary>release notes</summary>
  <pre>### Bug Fixes

- detect multi-arch ingress-nginx [PR [#5179](anchore/syft#5179) @CAOShurong]
- keep the epoch when parsing RPM manifest packages [PR [#5201](anchore/syft#5201) @sueun-dev]
- correct Apache Derby group ID in purl generation [PR [#5090](anchore/syft#5090) @Ankush-Pathak]
- move image hardlink handling upstream during image indexing [PR [#5196](anchore/syft#5196) @wagoodman]
- keep epoch-pinned requirements in the SBOM [PR [#5161](anchore/syft#5161) @sueun-dev]
- Prevent unnecessary allocations when parsing compressed ELF sections [PR [#5187](anchore/syft#5187) @wagoodman]
- honor the io.ReaderAt contract in readerAtAdapter [PR [#5186](anchore/syft#5186) @wagoodman]
- Support grafana binary various version [Issue [#5059](anchore/syft#5059)] [PR [#5213](anchore/syft#5213) @pujitha24]
- Excluded paths are still scanned and cause syft to crash [Issue [#3258](anchore/syft#3258)]
- Dotnet: Incorrect relationship graph in case of using package locks [Issue [#5125](anchore/syft#5125)] [PR [#5143](anchore/syft#5143) @pujitha24]
- Survive indexing not accessible files [Issue [#3286](anchore/syft#3286)] [PR [#5170](anchore/syft#5170) @addielaruee]
- CPE target_sw not being set consistency for Rust crates [Issue [#3956](anchore/syft#3956)] [PR [#5167](anchore/syft#5167) @Xenira]
- panic: nil pointer dereference in squashfs.(*File).Read when scanning snap (regression from 1.44.0) [Issue [#4989](anchore/syft#4989)] [PR [#5119](anchore/syft#5119) @kzantow]
- golang remote license search attempts to resolve stdlib modules [Issue [#3149](anchore/syft#3149)] [PR [#5192](anchore/syft#5192) @luantaraschi]

### Additional Changes

- gzip binary classifier reports false-positive GNU gzip from BusyBox multicall binary via applet symlink [Issue [#5171](anchore/syft#5171)] [PR [#5202](anchore/syft#5202) @spiffcs]
- pnpm v5 lockfile: underscore peer-dep suffixes are not stripped from package versions [Issue [#5174](anchore/syft#5174)] [PR [#5175](anchore/syft#5175) @codeAnqiang-ma]
- pnpm cataloger reads only the first YAML document: SBOM contains pnpm's own binaries and no project dependencies [Issue [#5168](anchore/syft#5168)] [PR [#5188](anchore/syft#5188) @hamodywe]

### Dependencies

72 dependency changes (70 updated, 1 added, 1 removed). 3 vulnerabilities remediated.

**🟢 Remediated (3)**

- [GO-2026-5158](GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835) (Medium) — go.opentelemetry.io/otel
- [GO-2026-6179](https://go.dev/issue/80744) (High) — golang.org/x/mod
- [GO-2026-6180](https://go.dev/issue/80745) (High) — golang.org/x/mod

<details>
<summary>Updated (70 packages)</summary>

- cel.dev/expr `v0.25.1` → `v0.25.2`
- cloud.google.com/go/auth `v0.18.2` → `v0.22.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/iam `v1.5.3` → `v1.11.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/logging `v1.13.1` → `v1.18.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/longrunning `v0.8.0` → `v1.2.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/monitoring `v1.24.3` → `v1.29.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/storage `v1.61.3` → `v1.64.0`
- cloud.google.com/go/trace `v1.11.7` → `v1.16.0`
- github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp `v1.32.0` → `v1.33.0`
- github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/exporter/metric `v0.55.0` → `v0.57.0`
- github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/internal/cloudmock `v0.55.0` → `v0.57.0`
- github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/internal/resourcemapping `v0.55.0` → `v0.57.0`
- github.com/anchore/stereoscope `v0.3.0` → `v0.3.1`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 `v1.41.5` → `v1.43.4`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream `v1.7.8` → `v1.7.16`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config `v1.32.12` → `v1.32.35`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials `v1.19.12` → `v1.19.34`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds `v1.18.20` → `v1.18.35`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/configsources `v1.4.21` → `v1.4.35`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/endpoints/v2 `v2.7.21` → `v2.7.35`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/v4a `v1.4.22` → `v1.4.36`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/accept-encoding `v1.13.7` → `v1.13.15`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/checksum `v1.9.13` → `v1.9.28`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/presigned-url `v1.13.21` → `v1.13.35`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/s3shared `v1.19.21` → `v1.19.36`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 `v1.97.3` → `v1.106.5`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/signin `v1.0.8` → `v1.5.4`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sso `v1.30.13` → `v1.33.4`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ssooidc `v1.35.17` → `v1.38.4`
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts `v1.41.9` → `v1.45.4`
- github.com/aws/smithy-go `v1.24.2` → `v1.27.6`
- github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 `v2.3.3` → `v2.3.4`
- github.com/containerd/platforms `v1.0.0-rc.4` → `v1.0.0-rc.5`
- github.com/docker/cli `v29.6.1+incompatible` → `v29.7.2+incompatible`
- github.com/docker/go-connections `v0.7.0` → `v0.8.1`
- github.com/fatih/color `v1.18.0` → `v1.19.0`
- github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype `v1.4.13` → `v1.4.15`
- github.com/google/go-containerregistry `v0.21.7` → `v0.21.9`
- github.com/google/pprof `v0.0.0-a4b03ec` → `v0.0.0-ef3492d`
- github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy `v0.3.14` → `v0.3.19`
- github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 `v2.17.0` → `v2.23.0`
- github.com/hashicorp/aws-sdk-go-base/v2 `v2.0.0-beta.72` → `v2.0.0-beta.74`
- github.com/hashicorp/go-getter `v1.8.6` → `v1.8.8`
- github.com/hashicorp/go-version `v1.8.0` → `v1.9.0`
- github.com/klauspost/compress `v1.19.1` → `v1.19.2`
- github.com/mattn/go-isatty `v0.0.20` → `v0.0.24`
- github.com/moby/moby/client `v0.5.0` → `v0.5.1`
- github.com/spiffe/go-spiffe/v2 `v2.6.0` → `v2.7.0`
- github.com/stretchr/objx `v0.5.2` → `v0.5.3`
- github.com/stretchr/testify `v1.11.1` → `v1.12.1`
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0`
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0` **(🟢 remediated [GO-2026-5158](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/security/advisories/GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835))**
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutmetric `v1.40.0` → `v1.44.0`
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0`
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0`
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0`
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace `v1.43.0` → `v1.44.0`
- golang.org/x/crypto `v0.54.0` → `v0.55.0`
- golang.org/x/mod `v0.38.0` → `v0.40.0` **(🟢 remediated [GO-2026-6179](https://go.dev/issue/80744), [GO-2026-6180](https://go.dev/issue/80745))**
- golang.org/x/net `v0.57.0` → `v0.58.0`
- golang.org/x/text `v0.40.0` → `v0.41.0`
- golang.org/x/tools `v0.48.0` → `v0.49.0`
- google.golang.org/api `v0.271.0` → `v0.292.0`
- google.golang.org/genproto `v0.0.0-8636f87` → `v0.0.0-aa98bba`
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api `v0.0.0-afd174a` → `v0.0.0-925bb5d`
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc `v0.0.0-afd174a` → `v0.0.0-6ac0973`
- google.golang.org/grpc `v1.82.1` → `v1.83.0`
- modernc.org/cc/v4 `v4.29.0` → `v4.29.1`
- modernc.org/libc `v1.74.1` → `v1.74.4`
- modernc.org/sqlite `v1.55.0` → `v1.56.0`
</details>

<details>
<summary>Added (1 package)</summary>

- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x `v0.66.0`
</details>

<details>
<summary>Removed (1 package)</summary>

- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/ini `v1.8.6`
</details>

**[(Full Changelog)](anchore/syft@v1.51.0...v1.51.1)**

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