Trouble with FortifyVulnerabilityExporter in Sonarqube version 8.9

Hi again Akanchha,

I’m consolidating your posts here in this thread I created for you when I moved your post on an only-tangentially related thread to a new thread.

You pose the question slightly differently this second time. Although the answer is largely the same: look to the plugin vendor.

That said, from your questions, it looks like Fortify chose to implement a plugin to import its issues as “external” issues, rather than as native issues.

  • External issues must be marked False Positive / Won’t Fix in the source tool.
  • External issues have no rule descriptions
  • I believe you should have equal ability to tag any kind of issue, even external ones.

IMO you should lobby Fortify to provide a plugin that provides rule descriptions and imports its issues as ones that can be managed in SonarQube.

 
HTH,
Ann