CodeQL, a semantic code analysis engine and query tool for finding security vulnerabilities across a codebase, has been made available for free by GitHub for anyone to use in research or to ...

After adding support for Ruby at GitHub Universe 2022, CodeQL introduced Kotlin support in beta. Additionally, support for other languages has been extended to include more recent versions. GitHub has ...

In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.

This new security scanning option makes use of CodeQL, which is GitHub’s own semantic code analysis engine that powers the platform’s paid Advanced Security feature set.

Users interested in helping secure the open source ecosystem are, as ever, invited to chime in and contribute to the CodeQL community on GitHub. Read more about secure development.

GitHub now has a tool that can help them do just that. It scans code as it is entered, looking for common issues like RCE, XSS, and SQL injection vulnerabilities, so programmers can fix the flaws ...

Besides GitHub, CodeQL is already being rolled out in other places to help with vulnerability code scans, such as Mozilla. GitHub's broader plan to improve security.