Should Sonar Cloud detect Java CVEs?

[chrisphale (CH)]

Hi all,
Should Sonar cloud detect known CVE vulnerabilities in a Java application?
E.g. CVE-2022-22965
We have a paid plan, but we are not seeing CVEs detected which JFrog is detecting.
Regards,
Chris.

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to the community!

SonarCloud does static analysis of your source code. Presumably these CVEs are in your dependencies? That’s SCA, software composition analysis, and not in our wheelhouse.

 
HTH,
Ann

[Colin]

Hello from the future!

We recently announced SonarQube Advanced Security, which will include SCA capabilities. While it’s not available yet, we expect general availability for SonarQube Server in May 2025, and SonarQube Cloud Enterprise shortly after.

Please see this announcement for more details.

Announcing SonarQube Advanced Security

Sonar is excited to announce SonarQube Advanced Security, extending SonarQube’s analysis capabilities beyond first-party and AI-generated code to include third-party open source code. With this, we’re delivering the first fully integrated solution for finding and fixing code quality and code security issues in the development phase of the SDLC. The first step in integrating Sonar’s recent acquisition of Tidelift, SonarQube Advanced Security strengthens a robust set of existing security capabili…