Bug: Sometimes links in markdown format are broken in description

[amanaev]

Expected Behavior

I want to make a custom report and the links in markdown format in the description should be formatted correctly and work.

Actual Behavior

The links in markdown format in the description field are sometimes broken. The closing bracket ] is missing and there is a space . Also the dash - is missing in /command line/.
For example:

• [Command line plugin (https://prismjs.com/plugins/command line/)

This happens in custom reports and in sbom-universal.vdr.json and bom.vdr.json.

sbom-universal-example.vdr.json

Steps to Reproduce

Using following command:

depscan --bom bom.json --reports-dir reports --explain --report-template template.j2.html --report-name custom-report.html

Additional Information

• Windows 11
• Python 3.12.6
• Depscan 5.5.0
• Cdxgen 11.1.3

[prabhu]

Would you be interested in a contributing a fix?