Semgrep Product Updates

After a little over a year in open beta, Semgrep Assistant is now GA!

Semgrep Assistant is free for all customers, and uses AI to greatly speed up existing workflows across prioritization, triage, and remediation. New features include Assistant generated custom rules and Priority Inbox - to learn more about these capabilities read the blog post.

Semgrep Assistant is super easy to set up - just go into settings and turn it on (your developers will appreciate the additional context):

A new set of rules for Elixir and the Phoenix framework have just been released, covering a broad range of security and correctness issues.

These rules can be found in the registry, and a subset of them (medium/high confidence rules) are available via the p/elixir ruleset for easy access.
To use them, users must be logged in and use the Pro engine via the --pro option!

Many thanks to Holden Oullette (maintainer of Sobelow) for helping us ship this update!

We're excited to announce that Semgrep Supply Chain now has lockfile-only support for Swift and the official Swift Package Manager!

Our future roadmap for the ecosystem includes reachability and the addition of CocoaPods as a supported package manager.

Users will need a Package.resolved in their repository for us to successfully parse all their dependencies. Official documentation on how users can generate one can be found here.

Semgrep Code now has cross-file support for Python! This includes 100+ Pro rules focusing on common web vulnerabilities, with coverage for Flask and several extensions like Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-WTForms, and more. Django and FastAPI coverage is coming soon!

The rules are in p/default and you should start to see new results in your next scan. If you'd like to see results on a local scan first, run $ semgrep login && semgrep ci --pro

Please don't hesitate to share any feedback you have on the results with your account team or one of our product managers!

We’re extremely excited to launch GA support for C and C++ in Semgrep Code! Our Pro Engine scans C/C++ projects in minutes, and doesn't require a build or compile step. To see all of the new Pro rules for C/C++, check out the registry.

Note that no changes have been made to C/C++ support in Semgrep OSS - the languages will stay experimental due to constraints with OSS engine capabilities.

If you have any questions regarding coverage or performance in comparison to other SAST solutions that scan C/C++, please reach out to your account team!

Semgrep now lets you filter by project tags. You can use this filter to only see issues associated with a subset of projects.

Note: we only list tags if they are associated with at least 1 project. If a tag is not showing up as an option, it’s most likely because it’s not yet linked to any particular project.

PS: there are more filtering capabilities on the horizon, so stay tuned!

You can now use anonymous metavariables when writing or customizing rules, which have the form $_. These metavariables do not bind in the environment, meaning they also do not unify. As such, patterns like:

foo($_, $_)

can match code like

foo(1, 2)

Happy rule writing!

Users can now select findings and use the "Analyze" button to run all Semgrep Assistant functions (autofix, autotriage, and component tagging) on the selected findings. Once the analysis is completed, users will see results if they:

filter by Fix/Ignore

filter by AI Component Tags

If they select "No Grouping" instead of "Group by Rule" they will see false positive or true positive recommendations directly in their findings.

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Semgrep Assistant (Semgrep’s AI integration) can now categorize and tag findings based on the component they are found in. Users can use these tags to prioritize findings (only show findings related to user authentication, PII, etc.).

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