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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code
To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance
Zimbra Email - Stealing Clear-Text Credentials via Memcache injection
We discovered flaws in Zimbra, an enterprise email solution, that allow attackers to steal credentials of users and gain access to their email accounts.
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Sonar’s analysis performance targets
We've finally defined our own performance goals for analysis - so that we're no longer subjecting ourselves to apples-to-oranges comparisons with tools that may not have the same goals or outcomes. Now, we can clearly state what you can expect from analysis, and how long analysis of a project should take under standardized conditions.
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Horde Webmail - Remote Code Execution via Email
We discovered vulnerabilities in Horde Webmail that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on Horde instances by having a victim open an email
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Path Traversal Vulnerabilities in Icinga Web
We recently discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the IT monitoring dashboard Icinga Web. Let’s review their respective root cause and their patches!
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A C&C++ tour of SonarLint for VS Code
VS Code has been gaining popularity for C and C++ development. We are happy to announce that finally, we will be able to help you write clean C and C++ code in VS Code.
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RainLoop Webmail - Emails at Risk due to Code Flaw
We recently discovered a critical code vulnerability in RainLoop Webmail that allows attackers to steal all emails by sending a malicious mail.
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PHP Supply Chain Attack on PEAR
For the second time in a year, we identified critical code vulnerabilities in a central component of the PHP supply chain. Let's dive into it!
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Clean Your Infrastructure Code with Sonar
The norm for setting up your cloud-native app infrastructure is quickly becoming Infrastructure as Code (IaC). In this blog, we’ll cover how Sonar is the solution for safeguarding your IaC invoked infrastructure.
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Securing Developer Tools: Git Integrations
With this series, we present the results of our research on the security of popular developer tools with the goal of making this ecosystem safer: today’s article revisits Git integrations.
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Securing Developer Tools: Package Managers
Yarn, Pip, Composer & friends: Learn about 3 types of vulnerabilities we found in popular package managers that can be used by attackers to target developers.
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5 things to consider in performance comparisons
When talking about static analysis and/or SAST performance comparisons - or really, comparisons of any kind of performance - what criteria do you consider? Maybe it was fast, but what did it accomplish? Here's what you ought to look at when you compare performance.
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