SAST Tools Mapping

Software Risk Manager Documentation

Version
latest

The tables below show the severity and triage status mappings for all of the SAST tools that are supported by Software Risk Manager.

Tools are listed alphabetically. Tool results are mapped to the Software Risk Manager status shown at the top of each column. (A blank cell indicates that an equivalent status value is unavailable or undefined.)

Severity Mapping

Table 1.
SAST Tools Critical High Medium Low Info Unspecified
Android Lint1   Security Correctness; Correctness: Messages, Fatal; Correctness: Messages, Error; Internationalization, Fatal; Internationalization, Error; Bi-directional Text, Fatal; Bi-directional Text, Error Correctness: Messages Warning, Performance Usability, Topography; Usability, Icons; Usability; Accessibility; Internationalization, Warning; Bi-directional Text, Warning  
Armorize CodeSecure   HIGH MEDIUM LOW    
Brakeman            
Checkmarx (SAST) 4 High / 3 Medium / 2 Low / 1 Info / 0, Information Unspecified, Unknown
Checkmarx One (SAST) CRITICAL HIGH MEDIUM LOW INFO  
Checkstyle            
Clang            
Clang (CodeChecker) CRITICAL HIGH MEDIUM LOW STYLE  
Clippy   error warning note / failure-note help none
CodePeer   high medium low    
CodeSonar-Scrape2   Red Yellow Green    
Continuous Dynamic (formerly WhiteHat) - (Legacy Rating System) urgent, critical high medium low informational, note  
Continuous Dynamic (formerly WhiteHat) - (Advanced Rating System) Critical High Medium Low Note  
CppCheck   error performance, warning portability, style information none
Coverity Very High / Critical Major / High Moderate / Medium Minor / Low Audit, Very Low  
Coverity On Polaris critical high medium low audit  
42Crunch 5 4 3 2 1  
DefenseCode ThunderScan critical high medium low informational  
ErrCheck     all      
error-prone            
ESLint            
Fortify3 impact >= 2.5 and likelihood >= 2.5 impact >= 2.5 likelihood >= 2.5 likelihood < 2.5 and impact < 2.5    
Fortify Software Security Center*** impact >= 2.5 and likelihood >= 2.5 impact >= 2.5 likelihood >= 2.5 likelihood < 2.5 and impact < 2.5    
Gendarme            
GitLab Security critical high medium low informational  
GoCyclo       all    
GoLint            
GoSec   HIGH MEDIUM LOW    
HCL AppScan Source critical high medium low informational  
HCL AppScan on Cloud (ASoC) critical high medium low informational  
Helix QAC   7 (Undefined behavior), 8 (Language constraints) 3 (Important issue), 4 (Local criteria), 5 (Data flow analysis), 6 (Portability) 2 (Minor issue) 0 (Information), 1 (Obsolete message), 9 (Error)  
IneffAssign       all    
JLint            
JSHint       all    
Microsoft Code Analysis            
MobSF   dangerous, insecure, high medium, warning   normal, signature, info, good  
MobFS Scan   ERROR WARNING   INFO  
NDepend Critical High Medium Low Info  
OCLint            
Orca Security (Secret Scans) CRITICAL HIGH MEDIUM LOW INFO  
Parasoft JTest / C++Test / dotTest   Level 1: Severe Violation; Level 2: Possible Severe Violation Level 3: Violation Level 4: Possible Violation; Level 5: Informational    
PHPMD   1, 2 3 4, 5    
PMD   1, 2 3 4, 5    
Polaris critical high medium low informational  
Pylint            
Rapid Scan SAST critical high medium low informational  
SafeSQL   all        
SARIF severe / critical high / error medium / moderate low / warning note / info / informational  
SATE   1, 2 3 4, 5    
Scalastyle            
Scan@Source critical high medium low informational  
SCARF            
Semgrep   high medium low    
Snyk Code critical high medium low    
SonarQube / SonarCloud BLOCKER / CRITICAL MAJOR / HIGH MEDIUM MINOR / LOW INFO  
SpotBugs / FindBugs   1 2 3    
Staticcheck            
TruffleHog Verified = true; Verified = false AND Detector name = Oauth, AWS, or Heroku Verified = false AND Detector Name = PrivateKey Verified = false AND Detector Name = Generic Secret     Verified = false AND Detector Name = Unspecified
Veracode   4 3 2 1  
Vet            

1. Android Lint evaluates risk based on both a category and a severity level. Categories are indicated by an asterisk.

2. CodeSonar reports risk through a combination of a ranking formula and an analysis warning system (red, yellow, green). Software Risk Manager uses the red, yellow, and green statuses to map to high, medium, and low, respectively.

3. Fortify reports risk by creating scores for “impact” and “likelihood.” The combination of these scores is then mapped to the Software Risk Manager severity levels.

Triage Status Mapping

Table 2.
SAST Tools Ignored False Positive To Be Fixed Mitigated Fixed Reopened
Android Lint            
Armorize CodeSecure            
Brakeman            
Checkmarx (SAST) NOT_EXPLOITABLE / 1 False Positive URGENT / 3; CONFIRMED / 2      
Checkmarx One (SAST) NOT_EXPLOITABLE; PROPOSED_NOT_EXPLOITABLE   URGENT; CONFIRMED      
Checkstyle            
Clang            
Clang (CodeChecker) intentional false_positive, suppress confirmed      
Clippy            
CodePeer not a bug false positive        
CodeSonar-Scrape**            
Continuous Dynamic (formerly WhiteHat) accepted, out of scope Invalid, false   open, mitigated    
CppCheck            
Coverity Intentional, ignore False Positive        
Coverity On Polaris DISMISSED INTENTIONAL, DISMISSED OTHER FALSE POSITIVE TO BE FIXED      
42Crunch            
DefenseCode ThunderScan   false positive        
ErrCheck            
error-prone            
ESLint            
Fortify*** Suppressed, Not an Issue   Exploitable, Suspicious, Reliability Issue, Bad Practice      
Fortify Software Security Center*** Suppressed, Not an Issue   Exploitable, Suspicious, Reliability Issue, Bad Practice      
Gendarme            
GitLab Security            
GoCyclo            
GoLint            
GoSec            
HCL AppScan Source   noise   passed fixed reopened
HCL AppScan on Cloud (ASoC)   noise   passed fixed reopened
Helix QAC            
IneffAssign            
JLint            
JSHint            
Microsoft Code Analysis            
MobSF            
MobFS Scan            
NDepend            
OCLint            
Orca Security (Secret Scans)            
Parasoft JTest / C++Test / dotTest            
PHPMD            
PMD            
Polaris dismissed (any other reason) dismissed (false positive) to-be-fixed      
Pylint            
Rapid Scan SAST            
SafeSQL            
SARIF            
SATE            
Scalastyle            
Scan@Source            
SCARF            
Semgrep         fixed  
Snyk Code ignored          
SonarQube / SonarCloud WON'T FIX, SAFE FALSE POSITIVE ACKNOWLEDGED   FIXED REOPENED
SpotBugs / FindBugs            
Staticcheck            
TruffleHog            
Veracode Accept the Risk Potential False Positive Reported to Library Maintainer Mitigate by Design, Mitigate by Network Environment, Mitigate by OS Environment    
Vet            

For SRM Triage Status definitions, click here.