Hi, in SonarQube 7.4 issues of type Security Hotspot seem to fail quality gates defined on the issue metrics (blocker issues, critical issues, etc.). As I understand the documentation ( https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/user-guide/security-reports/ ), this should only happen when a security hotspot i…

Excuse me as I have misunderstood your first question and my answer was not related to your problem. You are right that Security Hotspots should never impact the Quality Gate, whatever the language used. I created the corresponding ticket: https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONAR-11555 . In the me…

[EDIT: I had misunderstood the original question. This answer is not related to it] Hi @stephan.schuster , Thank you for your feedback. There is indeed a bug in version 7.9 of SonarC# and SonarVB which was released last week. Just as you said, Security Hotspots should never impact the quality gate…

Hi Nicolas, thanks for the quick reply. I have forgotten to mention that the problem occurs with java projects. Do you know of a similar bug in the Java analyzer? We are using version 5.9.2 (build 16552). Many thanks in advance & best regards, Stephan

Thanks for your help! Best regards, Stephan

Hi Nicolas, I think still some security hotspot issues exist in sonar. Is the above issue is fixed in sonar? Regards, Ramya

Hi @Ramya_Akula , The issue mentioned above has been fixed. Could you describe your problem, preferably in a separate topic? Regards, Nicolas

Hi Nicolas, Please find my new topic link, [image] SonarCube Security Hotspot issues SonarQube Hi Nicolas, Sonar Cube shows, Security Hotspot issues like, Make sure that executing SQL queries is safe here. Make sure that this http request is sent safely. Make sure this…

Hi Ramya, Please don’t cross-post the same issue in multiple topics. Thx, Ann

Hi @ganncamp , Sorry for the confusion. I was the one asking for a different thread as the problem was probably not related to this one. @Ramya_Akula Thank you for creating the other tread. The problem is indeed different, I’ll reply there.

Security hotspot issues fail quality gate

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Ramya_Akula (Ramya Akula) April 2, 2019, 11:23am 9

Hi Nicolas,

Please find my new topic link,

Could you please help me.

Regards,
ramya

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