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False Negative on bc-fips-1.0.2.jar and PyYAML:5.1.2
CVE-2020-15522 might be false negative on library for org.bouncycastle:bc-fips:1.0.2. CVE-2019-20477 ,CVE-2020-14343 and CVE-2020-1747 might be false negative on library for PyYAML:5.1.2 .
These CVEs are not reported by Dependency-check tool but reported by other open-source tools like Trivy.
Is this CVE actually belongs to org.bouncycastle:bc-fips:1.0.2 as per information on few sites? If yes, then it is false negative issue.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bc-fips</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>
PyYAML:5.1.2
bc-fips vulnerability is properly detected (Maven plugin 7.1.0). Not sure how to properly validate the PyYAML CVEs, maybe you can retest?