Advanced security with SonarQube

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Integrated Code Quality and Code Security

Application security starts with code

Secure your entire codebase—first-party, third-party, and everything in between. Seamlessly integrated into your workflow, SonarQube detects and fixes vulnerabilities with fast, accurate, and precise automated security analysis.

Application Security, software composition analysis (SCA), Taint Analysis, Advanced SAST, Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Secrets Detection, IaC scanning

TRUSTED BY OVER 7M DEVELOPERS WORLDWIDE

Our Security Solution

SonarQube fits seamlessly into the developer workflow, from IDE to CI/CD, delivering integrated code quality and security through advanced SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, and secrets detection. Trusted by millions of developers, it ensures comprehensive coverage for first-party, AI-generated, and third-party code. By automatically detecting issues early, you can fix problems faster, reduce rework, and ship secure, reliable software with confidence.

    Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

    Automatically detect vulnerabilities before they reach production with our powerful SAST solution. Our SAST technology identifies hundreds of different types of security issues that are meaningful and relevant—all during development.

    • Supports the most widely used programming languages including Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C, C++, C#, and more
    • Integrates with your IDE and CI/CD pipeline for seamless security checks
    • Includes detailed remediation guidance and AI CodeFix to help developers fix issues quickly
    • Create custom rules to enforce organization-specific security policies
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    SAST

    Taint Analysis

    Our taint analysis engine tracks complex data flow through the layers of your application code to identify potential security vulnerabilities from untrusted sources to sensitive sinks.

    • Detection of SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, Deserialization, and other injection vulnerabilities
    • Highly sophisticated and accurate data flow analysis cross-function and cross-file to reduce false positives
    • Framework-aware scanning that understands security controls in popular frameworks
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    Secrets Detection

    Prevent accidental exposure of sensitive information with our comprehensive secrets detection capabilities. SonarQube can find secrets in source code in your IDE using SonarQube for IDE and also detect them in your CI/CD pipeline using SonarQube (Server and Cloud).

    • Detection of API keys, passwords, tokens, and other sensitive data using hundreds of rules and secrets patterns that cover all popular technologies and providers
    • Detect secrets using a powerful combination of regular expressions and semantic analysis
    • Custom pattern detection for organization-specific secrets for private services
    • Detect secrets in your code directly in the IDE, preventing them from ever entering your repository
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    Secrets Detection

    Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Scanning

    Find security misconfigurations in your infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure secure production environments.

    • Support for Terraform, CloudFormation,  Azure Resource Manager, Kubernetes manifests, and Ansible
    • Detection of misconfigurations and security risks in infrastructure definitions
    • Receive actionable, highly-precise analysis results
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    Infrastructure as code

    Advanced Security

    Advanced SAST

    Our advanced static analysis capabilities go beyond traditional SAST to discover deeply hidden security vulnerabilities with fewer false positives. Advanced SAST helps identify deeper and more complex vulnerabilities due to the interaction of your application code with third-party (open-source) code.

    • External dependency-aware SAST analysis that understands flow between source and sinks
    • Cross-file taint analysis that goes deep into third-party libraries for detecting hard to find vulnerabilities
    • Does not require configuration and has no overhead, despite fast and accurate analysis
    • Available for Java, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript
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    Advanced SAST

    Advanced Security

    Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

    By analyzing software supply chains, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring license compliance, teams can proactively secure their codebase and reduce risks associated with third-party dependencies.

    • Vulnerability Identification: Streamlined processes for tracking, managing, and mitigating third-party vulnerabilities (including CVEs) in third-party open source dependencies
    • License Compliance: Ensuring that all incorporated components meet the organization’s policies for allowed software licenses
    • SBOM (Software Bill of Materials): Detailed inventories that help teams understand, manage, and report on the composition of their code
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    Software Composition Analysis

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    Key benefits

    • Comprehensive code coverage

    • Broad detection and remediation

    • Unmatched accuracy and speed

    • Start left in the development workflow

    • Meet compliance needs

    Comprehensive code coverage

    Complete code quality and code security analysis for 35+ languages (and frameworks) across first-party, third-party, and AI-generated code

    Customer story

    Global luxury car manufacturer

    How a global luxury car manufacturer manages code risks with SonarQube Advanced Security

    Key results

    • Faster signal and reduced overhead across 550+ projects
    • Predictable software delivery
    • Accelerated response to weaponized vulnerabilities

    A must-have for your team

    Built by developers for developers, trusted by organizations.

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    Security Architect

    "Releases are safer - over 65% better. Security level is 75% better (saving cost on penetration testing)"

    Ondrej Kolousek, CISO, Generali Czech Republic

    Security Architect

    Ondrej Kolousek, CISO, Generali Czech Republic

    "Releases are safer - over 65% better. Security level is 75% better (saving cost on penetration testing)"

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    Frequently asked questions

    SonarQube Advanced Security is Sonar’s comprehensive solution for ensuring source code security and code quality across the entire software development lifecycle. It integrates seamlessly with developer workflows—from IDEs to CI/CD pipelines—and provides automated vulnerability detection for first-party, third-party, and even AI-generated code. Through advanced scanning techniques like SAST, taint analysis, and secrets detection, SonarQube helps teams catch vulnerabilities early, remediate issues quickly, and minimize risk before code goes into production.

    The platform empowers organizations to adopt secure coding standards and DevSecOps practices without sacrificing productivity. By embedding security directly into the development pipeline, SonarQube not only finds security flaws but also offers detailed remediation guidance and AI-powered automated fixes. This holistic approach results in releases that are significantly safer and reduces overall costs of security oversight and penetration testing.