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 "what": "OSV-Scanner is Google's officially supported frontend to the OSV database. It finds known vulnerabilities in your project's dependencies across languages and package managers, scans container images layer by layer, checks licenses, can scan offline against a local database, and offers experimental guided remediation that suggests upgrades.",
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  "A project directory with lockfiles or manifests, or a container image",
  "Network access to OSV.dev, unless you use offline mode"
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 "risk": "none",
 "section": "earlier",
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 "category": "Security and science",
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   "id": "google-osv-scanner--scan-dependencies-offline-with-osv-scanner",
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 "disclaimer": "Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk."
}