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.
How Clean Code Practices Help You Retain Your Development Talent
It can be challenging to maintain good coding vibes when your team or company often prioritizes feature delivery over code quality. If your developers are never allowed the time to work on new and exciting things they may eventually find somewhere else to bring their coding talents to.
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Zimbra 8.8.15 - Webmail Compromise via Email
We discovered critical code issues in Zimbra, a popular enterprise webmail solution, that could lead to a compromise of all emails by an unauthenticated attacker.
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Clean As You Code essentials - What are Quality Profiles and Quality Gates?
Learn how the functionality of Quality Profiles and Quality Gates come together to enable the SonarSource Clean As You Code methodology.
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Etherpad 1.8.13 - Code Execution Vulnerabilities
We discovered two code execution vulnerabilities that affected Etherpad servers and data. Learn more about the technical details and how to avoid such coding issues.
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Enterprise-ready: Authentication & Authorization with SonarQube Server (LDAP, SSO & more)
Discover how SonarQube Server can integrate with your existing enterprise setup (LDAP, SSO & co.) for user authentication and authorization.
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CiviCRM 5.22.0 - Code Execution Vulnerability Chain Explained
We discovered critical code vulnerabilities in CiviCRM, a popular CRM plugin for Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Learn more about how to find and patch these issues.
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7 more reasons to upgrade to SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS
SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS is here! Not every improvement could be mentioned in the release announcement, so check out these LTS easter eggs that make this the Best LTS Ever.
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Broken pipelines for everyone!
With SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS, SonarSource has made failing the pipeline available for everyone, using any CI you want. But with great power comes ... well, you know. In this post you'll learn what went into the decision to make this available and what you'll want to watch out for when you use it.
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Grav CMS 1.7.10 - Code Execution Vulnerabilities
We responsibly disclosed two code execution vulnerabilities in Grav CMS, one of the most popular flat-file PHP CMS in the market. Let’s see what we can learn from them and discuss their patches!
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NoSQL Injections in Rocket.Chat 3.12.1: How A Small Leak Grounds A Rocket
We recently discovered vulnerabilities in Rocket.Chat, a popular team communications solution, that could be used to take over Rock.Chat instances.
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What to expect from JavaScript/TypeScript analysis on OWASP JuiceShop
In April 2021, we updated our JavaScript and TypeScript SAST engines to explore more execution flows, increase performance and improve overall accuracy. It now goes far beyond what we did in the past for these languages. With this post, we’re going to tell you what you can expect for these languages, and more specifically which vulnerabilities can be detected.
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