Working with notifications

Notifications alert you when:

  • Security vulnerabilities are published or updated against components that are included in one or more of your projects.

  • Estimated Security Risks that have been added or removed from components without a version.

  • Actions you perform affect the vulnerabilities in BOM components, such as:

    • Editing, adding, or removing components which have vulnerabilities.

    • Unmapping a scan from a project.

    • Rescanning code or a Docker image.

    • Ignoring or no longer ignoring a component.

    • Modifying file(s) so that they are matched to a different component.

  • Components have violated a policy.

  • Policy violations have been overridden.

  • Components no longer violate a policy.

  • You are approaching or are exceeding your code size limit.

Tip: You can remove projects you are watching so that you do not receive notifications for those projects or components in those projects.

Viewing notifications

  1. Open the notifications list by selecting .

  2. To manage the notifications, select See All Notifications located at the bottom of the list.

  3. By default, the page is filtered. Select Add Filter to change these settings.

Viewing more information

To view more information on security vulnerabilities and BOM component adjustments:

  1. Open the notifications list by selecting and select See All Notifications.

    • Select a component version to open the Security tab of the Black Duck KB component version page.

    • Select a vulnerability record (such as CVE-2017-1234) to view the vulnerability details page for that security vulnerability.

To view more information on policy violations and overrides:

  1. Open the notifications list by selecting and select See All Notifications.

  2. Select a policy violation or a policy violation override to open the BOM page.

    Users with the appropriate role can override a policy violation or remove a policy violation that was overridden.

To view more information on code limits:

The notification automatically appears at the top of the page when you are close to exceeding your code size limits:



  1. Open the notifications list by selecting .

  2. Select See All Notifications located at the bottom of the list.

  3. To upgrade your code limit, contact Customer Support.

Hiding notifications

You can hide notifications so that they no longer appear in the drop-down list and appeared grayed out on the All Notifications page.

  1. Open the notifications list by selecting .

  2. Select See All Notifications located at the bottom of the list.

  3. Click X located in the upper right corner of a notification.

    You can also use the same method in the All Notifications page.

    Click Revert icon located in the upper right corner of a notification in the All Notifications page to redisplay the notification.