Sonar's latest blog posts
Announcing SonarSweep: Improving training data quality for coding LLMs
Recent research from Anthropic has shown that even a small amount of malicious or poor quality training data can have a massively negative impact on a model’s performance, exposing users to significant security and quality issues.
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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Evaluating an ethical license for corporate use
The next most common evaluation will be a simple check against a list of accepted licenses, usually the list from the Open Source Initiative, a license-scanner vendor, or from counsel.
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Review your security vulnerabilities in GitHub with code scanning alerts
We’re happy to announce that SonarQube Cloud integrates with GitHub code scanning! It’s available to everyone with a GitHub repository - private or public - independently of your SonarQube Cloud plan. If you have access to the feature on GiHub and your organization admin already accepted the update for the SonarQube Cloud app permissions, you’re all set! You should be able to start using the feature during your next code review.
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Horde Webmail 5.2.22 - Account Takeover via Email
We recently discovered a code vulnerability in Horde Webmail that can be used by attackers to take over email accounts by sending a malicious email.
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Zabbix - A Case Study of Unsafe Session Storage
In this article we discuss the security of client-side session storages and analyze a vulnerable implementation in the IT monitoring solution Zabbix.
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Dependency management and your software health
The specific mechanisms for tracking dependencies vary across open source communities, making it challenging to compare across languages or package managers.
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WordPress < 5.8.3 - Object Injection Vulnerability
We discovered an interesting code vulnerability that could be used to bypass hardening mechanisms in the popular WordPress CMS.
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