Static Analysis updates - Commercial

November 15, 2023 · 12 min read

The updates on this page apply to Veracode Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in the Commercial Region.

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Veracode delivers the same Static Analysis language and framework support in both the European Region and the Commercial Region. For language support specific to Veracode Pipeline Scan, see Pipeline Scan Supported Languages.

November 15, 2023

Updated language and framework support

Added Javax to Jakarta transition support
Added support for Java Records
Added Spring Boot 3 support
Added Spring Security 6 support
Added Spring Core 6 support
Added Android 14 Initial support
Added KMS support for AWS SDK for Go
Improved flaw detection for Dart apps
Improved CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password) and CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) detection for all languages
Improved CWE-1174 (ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery), and CWE-915 (Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes) detection for .NET
Improved third-party detection for Android, C/C++, Dart, and JavaScript
Improved CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path) detection for Java
Improved third-party detection in Java WAR files
Improved CWE-252 (Unchecked Return Value), CWE-201(Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data), and CWE-297 (Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch) detection for iOS
No longer report MemoryStream for CWE-404 in .NET
Improved detection for unsupported mobile applications

October 26, 2023

Updated language and framework support

Added Dart 3.1 and Flutter 3.13 support
Added JDK 21 (LTS) support
Improved CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password) and CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) detection for Kotlin
Improved .NET analysis to ignore .NET ClickOnce “.deploy” files
Improved third-party detection for Java, JavaScript, PHP, iOS, PL/SQL and C++
Improved parsing for PL/SQL
Improved CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) detection for PHP
Enhanced Python analysis to treat modules consisting of all third-party code as first-party modules
Improved Groovy analysis of objects
Improved CWE-252 (Unchecked Return Value) detection for iOS
Improved JavaScript analysis of objects
Improved analysis of iOS apps to reduce CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) false positives
Improved CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure), CWE-926 (Improper Export of Android Application Components), CWE-327 (Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm) and CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) detection for Android

October 2, 2023

Updated language and framework support

Added iOS 17 initial support
Added Go 1.21 support
Added PHP Laravel 10 support
Added .NET Minimal API support
Enhanced .NET 7 support
Enhanced Groovy 3 support
Enhanced AWS SDK for Go support
Enhanced Android 13 support
Improved third-party detection for JavaScript
Improved CWE-80 detection for Vue.js
Improved CWE-259 detection for all languages
Improved CWE-89 detection for Transact-SQL
Improved third-party detection for C++
Improved symmetric-key parsing rules for Transact-SQL
Improved attribute idiomatic transformation support for Jakarta
Improved CWE-693 detection for Android
Improved scan performance for Micronaut framework
Improved Node.js modeling to reduce false positives
Improved handling of explicitly typed generic function calls in Go
Improved data path quality for JavaScript
Improved reporting of CWE-352 and CWE-915 in .NET to consolidate flaws reported on the same line and file as separate flaws into one flaw
Added CWE-566 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled SQL Primary Key) detection for .NET applications

Deprecated support for some .NET cleansing functions

Veracode has deprecated support of .NET cleansers for the following functions for flaw classes CWE-93, CWE-113, and CWE-117:

antixsslibrary.dll : Microsoft.Security.Application.AntiXss.HtmlAttributeEncode
antixsslibrary.dll : Microsoft.Security.Application.AntiXssEncoder.HtmlAttributeEncode
antixsslibrary.dll : Microsoft.Security.Application.Encoder.HtmlAttributeEncode
antixsslibrary.dll : Microsoft.Security.Application.Encoder.HtmlEncode
mscorlib.dll : System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape
system.dll : System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlEncode
system.web.dll : System.Web.HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode
system.web.dll : System.Web.Security.AntiXss.AntiXssEncoder.HtmlEncode
system.web.dll : System.Web.Util.HttpEncoder.HtmlAttributeEncode
system.web.dll : System.Web.Util.HttpEncoder.HtmlEncode
system.web.mvc.dll : System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper.AttributeEncode
system.web.mvc.dll : System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper.Encode
system.windows.browser.dll : System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
system.windows.dll : System.Net.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
System.Runtime.dll : System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlEncode

These cleansing functions are insufficient for addressing their targeted flaw classes and better alternatives are available.

For more details on why Veracode deprecated support for these functions and how to protect your applications against CRLF injection attacks, see the Veracode Community.

September 11, 2023

Fixed bug causing false positives for CWE-798

In last month’s release, Veracode added improved support for CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) detection. However, a bug in the pattern matching caused a significant number of false positives for some users. Veracode has resolved this issue and the improvement should result in significantly fewer CWE-798 false positives.

August 23, 2023

Updated language and framework support

Added Kotlin 1.9 support
Added TypeScript 5.x support
Added GCC 12 (RHEL 8) support
Improved CWE-1174 (ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation) detection on controller-derived classes
Improved support for JavaScript URLSearchParams API
Improved support for Spring produces annotation attribute
Improved third-party detection for JavaScript
Improved third-party detection for Android
Improved third-party detection for Java
Improved hardcoded password/credential detection (CWE-259 and 798)
Improved .NET CWE-80 basic XSS detection
Improved JavaScript detection of document elements
Improved performance for Vue applications
Improved .NET Entity Framework support
Added ability to allow third-party PHP software if the entire upload is third-party
Improved detection of Java CWE-611 XXE
Improved support for Python Django views

July 25, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode has added support for Quarkus, a Kubernetes-native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM.

Veracode has improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Improved Detection of CWE-259 and CWE-798

Improvements to the detection methods Veracode uses to identify CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password), and CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) vulnerabilities should reduce the number of false positives during static analysis. Improved CWE-259 coverage for Python language submissions.

June 22, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode has added support for Micronaut 3.8.x, which is a JVM-based framework you use to build lightweight, modular applications.

Veracode has improved static analysis by enhancing support for Android 12.

Veracode has improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Improved CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password) and CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) Detection

Improvements to the detection methods utilized to identify CWE-259 and CWE-798 vulnerabilities should reduce the number of false positives found during static analysis.

Additional CWE-693 Coverage for Android

Veracode has added an additional CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure) check for Android applications to ensure that the Play Integrity API is used appropriately.

May 23, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Full support for iOS 16
Enhanced support for Java 20

Improved CWE-89 Coverage for Java and JavaScript/TypeScript

The improved coverage increases the number of potential CWE-89 flaws that Veracode discovers in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript applications, which might affect your scan results.

Added CWE-451 Coverage for Android

Veracode has added CWE-451 (Tapjacking) coverage for Android applications.

May 18, 2023

Pipeline Scan Adds Support for Module Selection

Pipeline Scan adds a new --include parameter. You use this parameter to specify the top-level modules to include during scanning. The scan results now show both the modules that Veracode identified during prescan and the modules included in the scan.

This update is available with Veracode CLI version 23.4.3-0 and Veracode Docker image version 23.4.3.

April 27, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Support for JDK 20
Enhanced support for .NET 7
Enhanced support for Python SQLAlchemy
Enhanced support for React Native 0.7x
Support for AWS SDK for Go v2

Improved Static Analysis for Python Language Submissions

Static analysis of Python applications inaccurately reports certain CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)) flaws as CWE-201 (Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data) flaws. This update recategorizes these incorrectly reported flaws as CWE-918. This update might impact existing flaw matching and you might need to apply new mitigations to these flaws.

After you apply this update, any Python applications that contain CWE-201 flaws and have any of the following policy requirements might fail your security policy:

Security Standard rule for Auto-Update CWE Top 25
Findings by Severity rule for Medium or higher
Minimum Scan Score rule

March 23, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Support for Vue 3.x
Support for React Native 0.7x
Enhanced support for Python Flask 2.x

Improved Static Analysis for WebMethodAttribute use in ASP.NET Classic

Veracode has improved static analysis for WebMethodAttribute use in ASP.NET Classic (non MVC and/or MVC Core) WebForms and WebServices. This will affect the flaws found and associated policy results for customers by reducing the number of FPs found.

February 23, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Support for Go 1.20
Support for Angular 14 & 15
Support for React 18
Support for Dart 2.17, 2.18, 2.19 and Flutter 3.0, 3.3, 3.7

Improved COBOL Parser Error Handling

Veracode no longer reports parser errors in standalone copybook files that COBOL files do not include. These files are not relevant for security scanning unless COBOL files reference them.

January 26, 2023

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Initial Support for .NET 7

Veracode has improved static analysis by adding support for:

Server-side request forgery (SSRF) reporting for JavaScript

Veracode has released a new version of our new iOS packaging tool:

Gen IR version 0.2.1: gen-ir

December 15, 2022

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new versions of supported technologies:

Support for Node.js 18
Support for PHP Laravel 6-9
Initial Support for Kotlin 1.7
Initial Support for Android 13
Support for Python Flask 2.x
Support for Go 1.18-1.19
Support for React Native 0.67

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these new languages and frameworks:

Support for Dart and Flutter
Support for .NET MAUI

Veracode has improved static analysis by adding a new iOS packaging tool to support Xcode 14 without the Enable_Bitcode setting:

New iOS packaging tool: gen-ir
Updated documentation: iOS and tvOS Application Packaging

November 17, 2022

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these languages and frameworks:

Support for JDK 19
Support for Azure Functions v4 for .NET

October 27, 2022

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these languages and frameworks:

Support for Visual C++ 14.3.x for Visual Studio 2022
Support for Azure Functions for Python

October 19, 2022

New Packaging Guidance Tool

You can use the new Veracode Packaging Cheat Sheet to generate language-specific packaging guidance for Static Analysis.

October 4, 2022

New Veracode Static Analysis Support for Languages and Frameworks

Veracode improved static analysis by adding support for these languages and frameworks:

Support for JDK 18
Full support for .NET 6
Initial support for iOS 16
Enhanced support for Golang Gorilla
Enhanced support for React and React Router