Known Issues and Limitations

Black Duck Documentation

Version
2026.4

The following is a list of known issues and limitations in Black Duck:

New Known Issues and Limitations

  • With the recent updates, Bitbucket Data Center (BBDC) now aligns with the workflow of other SCM providers, such as GitHub and GitLab, in terms of creating SCM projects. However, our QA team has identified a bug that users should be aware of:

    Issue: A limitation exists when two repositories with the same name are displayed on the same page in the UI. If one of these repositories is selected, both will be selected, resulting in both being scanned.

    Next Steps: This is a known bug, and we are actively working on a solution that will be included in the next release.

    Workaround: To avoid this issue, users can search for the exact project or repository they wish to scan and conduct the scan individually.

Current Known Issues and Limitations

  • Simultaneously creating or updating serveral age-based policies may cause the BOM Engine container to run out of memory and restart, depending on system resources. If this occurs, contact Customer Support for assistance.

  • Due to updates to the security ranking algorithm, searching for vulnerabilities on the Find → Vulnerabilities page may display results different from previous versions.

  • When transitioning active project versions to LTS, additional vulnerabilities might the discovered in the LTS project if the active project included components identified through snippet scanning. In future updates, components matched via snippet scanning will no longer be carried over to LTS projects.

  • Users of the Bitbucket Cloud SCM provider must use the same workspace name and workspace ID in Bitbucket in order to clone repositories from that workspace.

  • When searching for CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities on the Find page, you must also check the Affecting Projects checkbox to get results. Checking only the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability checkbox will not yield any search results.

  • The Scan Heatmap found under Admin > Diagnostics > Heatmaps displays results in UTC time instead of local time. Please be aware of this when using this new feature.

  • Components marked for deletion based on Match Score threshold setting are not being removed when re-uploading BDIO through UI.

  • The Purge ONLY Archived Project Version Unmatched Scan File Data and Purge All Unmatched File Data links do not work at both the project (project > Settings tab) and global (Admin > System Settings > Data Retention) levels.

  • The Component Management > Component Versions tab > Add (KB) Component modal > Save does not display newly added component versions until the page is refreshed.

  • Customers currently using Blackduck 2021.8.0 or later might experience timeout issues when Detect is invoked with the following parameters in a request:

    • --detect.wait.for.results=true
    • --min-scan-interval= (a non-zero, positive value)

    This issue will be resolved in an upcoming Detect and Blackduck release.

    [Hub-22657When scanning with Signature Scanner CLI, Black Duck Detect Desktop, or Black Duck Detect, you may see error messages that starts with the following:

    ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized

    You can ignore these messages. These errors do not impact the scans and will not cause the scan to fail.

  • [Hub-20216The Overview tab for the Component Name page shows CVSS 2.0 data, even if you selected to view CVSS 3.0 (NVD or BDSA) data.

  • If you are using an LDAP directory server to authenticate users, consider the following:
    • Black Duck supports a single LDAP server. Multiple servers are not supported.

    • If a user is removed from the directory server, Black Duck user account continues to appear as active. However, the credentials are no longer valid and cannot be used to log in.

    • If a group is removed from the directory server, Black Duck group is not removed. Delete the group manually.

  • Tagging only supports letters, numbers, and the plus (+) and underscore (_) characters.

  • If Black Duck is authenticating users, user names are not case sensitive during login. If LDAP user authentication is enabled, user names are case sensitive.

  • If a code location has a large bill of materials, deleting a code location may fail with a user interface timeout error.