Third-party Software Components

[clinechas (Charles Cline)]

We have a requirement to identity third-party software components in our Azure DevOps code repos. We have SonarCloud, is there functionality in SonarCloud that might help us identify these third party components and any potential security issues?

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi,

Welcome to the community!

We don’t perform SCA (software composition analysis).

What you can do is run a SCA tool before analysis, convert its output to the Generic Issues format and import it that way.

 
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…