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 ...

This action runs GitHub's industry-leading semantic code analysis engine, CodeQL, against a repository's source code to find security vulnerabilities. It then automatically uploads the results 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.