Summary
Add a vulnerability analysis mode that can process multiple components in one invocation, instead of requiring one package/version query at a time.
Scenarios
- Analyze a
.nuspec or .nupkg and report vulnerabilities for the package and its dependency closure.
- Analyze a
.deps.json and report vulnerabilities for every package identity/version it references.
- Analyze a directory and report vulnerabilities for components discovered from adjacent
.deps.json, .nuspec, .nupkg, or other package identity sources.
Desired behavior
- Accept one or more file/directory inputs.
- Preserve exact package identity and version where available.
- Distinguish clearly between:
- no vulnerabilities found,
- vulnerable package/version,
- package/version not found on the configured sources,
- package identity could not be inferred.
- Support existing output formats such as table, TSV, JSON, and JSONL.
- Include advisory fields such as severity, CVE, GHSA, advisory URL, affected package, affected version, and source input path.
- Provide an optional CI-friendly exit code, for example
--fail-on-vulnerabilities.
Possible command shapes
dotnet-inspect vulnerabilities path/to/project.deps.json
dotnet-inspect vulnerabilities path/to/package.nuspec
dotnet-inspect vulnerabilities path/to/package.nupkg
dotnet-inspect vulnerabilities path/to/directory --recursive
dotnet-inspect vulnerabilities input1.deps.json input2.nupkg --jsonl
Why this helps
Vulnerability investigations often start from an application or tool payload rather than a single package. A batch mode would make it easier to audit real deployed component sets and would avoid scripting repeated single-package queries around dotnet-inspect.
Summary
Add a vulnerability analysis mode that can process multiple components in one invocation, instead of requiring one package/version query at a time.
Scenarios
.nuspecor.nupkgand report vulnerabilities for the package and its dependency closure..deps.jsonand report vulnerabilities for every package identity/version it references..deps.json,.nuspec,.nupkg, or other package identity sources.Desired behavior
--fail-on-vulnerabilities.Possible command shapes
Why this helps
Vulnerability investigations often start from an application or tool payload rather than a single package. A batch mode would make it easier to audit real deployed component sets and would avoid scripting repeated single-package queries around
dotnet-inspect.