diff --git a/cve_bin_tool/sbom_manager/__init__.py b/cve_bin_tool/sbom_manager/__init__.py
index 3146e3c9ec..7b0b588d25 100644
--- a/cve_bin_tool/sbom_manager/__init__.py
+++ b/cve_bin_tool/sbom_manager/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import re
 from collections import defaultdict
 from logging import Logger
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -44,7 +45,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.cvedb = CVEDB(version_check=False)
 
     def scan_file(self) -> dict[ProductInfo, TriageData]:
-        LOGGER.info(f"Processing SBOM {self.filename} of type {self.type.upper()}")
+        self.logger.debug(
+            f"Processing SBOM {self.filename} of type {self.type.upper()}"
+        )
         modules = []
         try:
             if Path(self.filename).exists():
@@ -63,16 +66,15 @@ def scan_file(self) -> dict[ProductInfo, TriageData]:
         # Now process list of modules to create [vendor, product, version] tuples
         parsed_data: list[ProductInfo] = []
         for m in modules:
-            # Using lower to normalize product names across databases
-            product, version = m[0].lower(), m[1]
-            if version != "":
-                # Now add vendor to create product record....
-                # print (f"Find vendor for {product} {version}")
-                vendor_set = self.get_vendor(product)
-                for vendor in vendor_set:
-                    # if vendor is not None:
-                    parsed_data.append(ProductInfo(vendor, product, version))
-                    # print(vendor,product,version)
+            if m and m[0]:
+                # Using lower to normalize product names across databases
+                product, version = m[0].lower(), m[1]
+                if version != "":
+                    # Now add vendor to create product record....
+                    vendor_set = self.get_vendor(product)
+                    for vendor in vendor_set:
+                        # if vendor is not None:
+                        parsed_data.append(ProductInfo(vendor, product, version))
 
         for row in parsed_data:
             self.sbom_data[row]["default"] = {
@@ -97,8 +99,14 @@ def get_vendor(self, product: str) -> list:
             vendorlist.append("UNKNOWN")
         return vendorlist
 
+    def is_valid_purl(self, purl_string):
+        """Returns true if give purl_string is a valid purl string"""
+        purl_pattern = r"^\w+://[\w\-.]+/[\w\-.]+(?:/[\w\-.]+)*(?:\?[\w\-.]+=[\w\-.]+(?:&[\w\-.]+=[\w\-.]+)*)?$"
+        return re.match(purl_pattern, purl_string) is not None
+
     def parse_sbom(self):
         """parse SBOM, using PURL identifiers preferentially if found"""
+
         # Set up SBOM parser
         sbom_parser = SBOMParser(sbom_type=self.type)
         # Load SBOM
@@ -121,11 +129,14 @@ def parse_sbom(self):
             if ext_ref is not None:
                 for ref in ext_ref:
                     if ref[1] == "purl":
-                        # Process purl identifier
-                        purl_info = PackageURL.from_string(ref[2]).to_dict()
-                        if purl_info["name"] and purl_info["version"]:
-                            modules.append([purl_info["name"], purl_info["version"]])
-                            purl_found = True
+                        if self.is_valid_purl(ref[2]):
+                            # Process purl identifier
+                            purl_info = PackageURL.from_string(ref[2]).to_dict()
+                            if purl_info["name"] and purl_info["version"]:
+                                modules.append(
+                                    [purl_info["name"], purl_info["version"]]
+                                )
+                                purl_found = True
             if not purl_found:
                 if package.get("version") is not None:
                     modules.append([package["name"], package["version"]])
diff --git a/test/test_cli.py b/test/test_cli.py
index 110ac716f0..1ba56292ee 100644
--- a/test/test_cli.py
+++ b/test/test_cli.py
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ def test_SBOM(self, caplog):
         assert (
             "cve_bin_tool",
             logging.INFO,
-            "There are 1 products with known CVEs detected",
+            "There are 3 products with known CVEs detected",
         ) in caplog.record_tuples
 
     def test_sbom_detection(self, caplog):