ActiveState Curated Catalog

Your Private Source for Vetted Open Source

Security and Engineering set the guardrails. Developers and AI coding agents consume through pip, npm, and the package managers they already use. Everyone moves faster.

Keep your scanner. Govern what it scans.

Scanners tell you what's already in your code.

The Curated Catalog decides what gets in, so your scanner has less to find and your team has less to triage.

ActiveState handles remediation for you

When an upstream fix is released, ActiveState builds the fixed component from source and publishes it to your catalog. Managed components are updated on contractual SLAs: 5 business days for critical CVEs, 10 business days for high, and 30 business days for all others, with the clock starting when a fix is available upstream.

AI code generators stay on rails

Point your AI coding assistants at the Curated Catalog, and the dependencies they request resolve from your catalog's vetted components instead of public registries.

Developers keep 
their existing tools

Packages are delivered as native artifacts like Python Wheels and Java JARs. Your team installs from the Curated Catalog the same way they install from PyPI or Maven. No new CLI. No workflow changes.

Works with Cloudsmith, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, and AWS CodeArtifact

Supports multiple language ecosystems, including Python, Java, and JavaScript

Every component gets a daily security check

Our component-level security feed updates every 24 hours. When a patch drops or a new vulnerability surfaces, you know immediately.

Built from source

ActiveState builds open source from source, with automatically generated SBOMs, so you know where your packages came from.

~68%

reduction in scanner noise from false positives

~30%

of developer time saved

Since 1997

securing open source for enterprises

Supply chain attacks prevented at the source

Global Proprietary Trading Firm

Facing a 633% annual increase in supply chain attacks and a PyPI incident that forced the registry to halt new project uploads, this high-frequency trading firm moved to a private, source-built Python catalog and eliminated public malware ingestion entirely.

Mercury Financial

With a PCI audit approaching and 50,000 lines of Python 2 code still running past its end-of-life date, this FinTech company turned to ActiveState's maintained Python 2.7 interpreter to secure its legacy code and buy time for a smooth migration to Python 3.

Druva

As its Data Resiliency Cloud platform scaled, this data protection company's engineers were splitting time between feature development and tracking third-party component updates. ActiveState took over component monitoring and remediation, freeing engineering time for customer-facing work.

FAQs

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How does a Curated Catalog work with my existing tools?

The Curated Catalog acts as a trusted upstream source for your artifact manager, and works with Cloudsmith, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, and AWS CodeArtifact. Developers keep pulling packages through the tools they already use instead of public registries. AI coding assistants can be pointed at it too, so the dependencies they request resolve from the catalog.

Will a Curated Catalog slow down my developers?

Developers keep their speed. Components arrive pre-vetted, so teams skip the wait for security approvals and spend less time on CVE cleanup. They use the same package managers and the same workflow.

What languages are supported?

The Curated Catalog covers multiple language ecosystems, including Python, Java, JavaScript, and R. See supported languages for the full list.

How quickly does ActiveState remediate vulnerabilities?

Managed components are updated on contractual SLAs: 5 business days for critical CVEs, 10 business days for high, and 30 business days for all others. The clock starts when a fix is available upstream, and the fixed component is published to your catalog.

What does "built from source" mean?

ActiveState builds open source components from their original source code instead of redistributing pre-compiled binaries from public registries, so you know where your packages came from.

Trust what's in your open source before it ships

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