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Can SonarQube be used as a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool?

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[lkamal (top answer)] There is a separate SAST tool released by OWASP team named "OWASP SonarQube".

[lkamal (top answer)] There is a separate SAST tool released by OWASP team named "OWASP SonarQube". This is developed using the sonarqube tool, but as a SAST tool. This tool can be integrated with your project build same as the SonarQube integration. So if you are familiar with SonarQube, it will be a straightforward move.

Context: Stack Overflow #47471078 (top answer, 5 votes, 3 answers): I'm looking for a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool and I can't afford the commercial products (eg. Checkmarx). SonarQube is a great static code analysis tool but I notice that there is only a few rules of the "Vulnerabilities" type ("Vulnerabilities" equals "Security", am I right?). I plan to extend some custom plugins including a lot of vulnerabilities rules (maybe hundreds of rules for C/C++, Java, and other languages that SonarQube supports). Is that a practicable way to make SonarQube a "Checkmarx like" tool? Or is SonarQube suitable for static security testing? (I'm n

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