Application SecuritySupply Chain Security
ActiveState Curated Catalog
Private catalog of vetted, built-from-source open source components with SLA-backed CVE remediation
ActiveState Curated Catalog Overview
What it does
ActiveState Curated Catalog is a software supply chain security product that gives enterprises a private, vetted source for open source components, replacing direct pulls from public registries such as PyPI and npm. Security and engineering teams set policy guardrails at the point of ingestion, while developers and AI coding assistants keep consuming packages through pip, npm, and their existing package managers. Every component is built from original source code in Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) Level 3 infrastructure with cryptographic attestation on each artifact.
How it works
The catalog draws on the ActiveState Library, a corpus of 79 million components spanning 12 language ecosystems including Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, R, and .NET. ActiveState compiles each component from source in its hardened build environment, signs it, and delivers native artifacts such as Python wheels and Java JARs into existing artifact repositories. A component-level security feed updates every 24 hours; when an upstream fix lands, affected components are rebuilt and republished under a contractual SLA of 5 business days for critical CVEs and 10 for highs, with breaking-change analysis run before updates ship.
Credentials and traction
SOC 2 Type II certified, with the audit report available through the ActiveState Trust Center. ActiveState was positioned as a Niche Player in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, and the Curated Catalog was named Best Open Source Security Platform in The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026. Customers include Barclays, Moody's, Siemens, Druva, and Mercury Financial, and the company has supplied enterprise open source tooling since 1997.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesVerification of build integrity and artifact provenance through signing, attestation, and change attribution.
Governs third-party software consumption to apply consistent software supply chain security policy.
Risk context for open-source dependencies including reachability, exploitability, and upgrade impact.
Generates SBOMs from source code analysis (via build system integration), and from binary analysis (via binary composition analysis), the latter enabling SBOM generation for third-party software where source is unavailable.
Imports and exports SBOMs in CycloneDX, SPDX, and SWID formats, enabling interoperability with scan tools, procurement workflows, and regulatory evidence systems.
Creates, imports, and manages Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange statements asserting the exploitability status of CVEs for specific product versions, reducing false positive noise for downstream consumers.
Monitors SBOMs against live vulnerability feeds, alerts when new CVEs affect components in managed SBOMs. Latency to alert after new CVE publication varies.
Tracks license obligations across the SBOM inventory, identifying GPL and AGPL copyleft propagation, license conflicts, and FOSS obligations for each release.
Generates formatted evidence packages for SBOM-related regulatory requirements: FDA pre-market cybersecurity guidance, Executive Order 14028 SBOM requirements, EU Cyber Resilience Act Article 13.
Compliance
certificationsIntegrations
compatible toolsImplementation & support
Info last updated on August 1, 2026
Buyers
See how ActiveState Curated Catalog fits your stack
Add ActiveState Curated Catalog to your shortlist and unlock all evaluation tools.
Vendors
Is this your product?
Claim your profile to connect with the teams looking for your solutions.