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The Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs
Make smarter AI adoption decisions with Sonar's latest report in The State of Code series. Explore the habits, blind spots, and archetypes of the top five LLMs to uncover the critical risks each brings to your codebase.
Why did my coverage just drop?!
After an upgrade people are sometimes surprised to find that the next analysis of a project with no real changes shows a significant drop in coverage. Believe it or not, that really is a feature, not a bug, and it's called Executable Lines.
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CubeCart 6.1.12 - Admin Authentication Bypass
CubeCart is an open source e-commerce solution. In one of our latest security analysis we found two flaws in this web application that allow an attacker to circumvent the authentication mechanism required to login as an administrator (CVE-2018-20716).
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Supporting analysis of .NET Core projects
Support for SonarQube Server analysis of projects in the new MSBuild v15 format has been one of the features most requested by the Microsoft community, now it's done !
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Shopware 5.3.3: PHP Object Instantiation to Blind XXE
Shopware is a popular e-commerce software that bases on Symfony, Doctrine and the Zend Framework. In this blog post we investigate the exploitation of a rare PHP object instantiation vulnerability (CVE-2017-18357).
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Joomla! 3.7.5 - Takeover in 20 Seconds with LDAP Injection
Joomla! is one of the most popular content management systems. We detected a previously unknown LDAP injection vulnerability in the login controller that could allow remote attackers to leak the super user password and to fully take over any Joomla! installation.
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SugarCRM's Security Diet - Multiple Vulnerabilities
SugarCRM is one of the most popular customer relationship management solutions. We uncovered critical security issues that could allow attackers to steal customer data or sensitive files from the server.
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How security flaws in PHP's core can affect your application
Learn how memory corruption bugs in the PHP core itself can affect your PHP application.
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SonarCFamily Now Supports ARM Compilers
For those not familiar with ARM (Advanced RISC Machine), let's start by sharing some numbers: in 2011, the 32-bit ARM architecture was the most widely used architecture in mobile devices and the most popular 32-bit one in embedded systems (see). Moreover in 2013, 10 billion were produced (see) and "ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices" (see).
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Why mail() is dangerous in PHP
Recently, many critical security vulnerabilities were fixed in popular PHP applications such as Roundcube, Wikimedia and Zend Framework that based on insecure usage of the PHP mail() function. In this post, we have a look at the common ground of these vulnerabilities and how to use mail() securely.
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Breaking the SonarQube Server Analysis with Jenkins Pipelines
One of the most requested feature regarding SonarQube Server Scanners is the ability to fail the build when quality level is not at the expected level. We have this built-in concept of quality gate in SonarQube Server, and we used to have a BuildBreaker plugin for this exact use case. But starting from version 5.2, aggregation of metrics is done asynchronously on SonarQube Server side. It means build/scanner process would finish successfully just after publishing raw data to the SonarQube Server, without waiting for the aggregation to complete.
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osClass 3.6.1: Remote Code Execution via Image File
In this blog post, we present a beautiful chain of vulnerabilities which, in the end, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary PHP code in the open source marketplace software osClass 3.6.1 used for creating classifieds sites.
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