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# SAST Analyzers **(ULTIMATE)**
SAST relies on underlying third party tools that are wrapped into what we call
"Analyzers". An analyzer is a
[dedicated project ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers )
that wraps a particular tool to:
- Expose its detection logic.
- Handle its execution.
- Convert its output to the common format.
This is achieved by implementing the [common API ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/common ).
SAST supports the following official analyzers:
- [`bandit` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/bandit ) (Bandit)
- [`brakeman` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/brakeman ) (Brakeman)
- [`eslint` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/eslint ) (ESLint (Javascript))
- [`flawfinder` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/flawfinder ) (Flawfinder)
- [`gosec` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/gosec ) (Gosec)
- [`nodejs-scan` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/nodejs-scan ) (NodeJsScan)
- [`phpcs-security-audit` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/phpcs-security-audit ) (PHP CS security-audit)
- [`pmd-apex` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/pmd-apex ) (PMD (Apex only))
- [`secrets` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/secrets ) (Secrets (Gitleaks, TruffleHog & Diffence secret detectors))
- [`security-code-scan` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/security-code-scan ) (Security Code Scan (.NET))
- [`sobelow` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/sobelow ) (Sobelow (Elixir Phoenix))
- [`spotbugs` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/spotbugs ) (SpotBugs with the Find Sec Bugs plugin (Ant, Gradle and wrapper, Grails, Maven and wrapper, SBT))
- [`tslint` ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/tslint ) (TSLint (Typescript))
The analyzers are published as Docker images that SAST will use to launch
dedicated containers for each analysis.
SAST is pre-configured with a set of **default images** that are maintained by
GitLab, but users can also integrate their own **custom images** .
## Official default analyzers
Any custom change to the official analyzers can be achieved by using an
[environment variable in your `.gitlab-ci.yml` ](index.md#customizing-the-sast-settings ).
### Using a custom Docker mirror
You can switch to a custom Docker registry that provides the official analyzer
images under a different prefix. For instance, the following instructs
SAST to pull `my-docker-registry/gl-images/bandit`
instead of `registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/bandit` .
In `.gitlab-ci.yml` define:
```yaml
include:
template: SAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
SAST_ANALYZER_IMAGE_PREFIX: my-docker-registry/gl-images
```
This configuration requires that your custom registry provides images for all
the official analyzers.
### Selecting specific analyzers
You can select the official analyzers you want to run. Here's how to enable
`bandit` and `flawfinder` while disabling all the other default ones.
In `.gitlab-ci.yml` define:
```yaml
include:
template: SAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
SAST_DEFAULT_ANALYZERS: "bandit,flawfinder"
```
`bandit` runs first. When merging the reports, SAST will
remove the duplicates and will keep the `bandit` entries.
### Disabling default analyzers
Setting `SAST_DEFAULT_ANALYZERS` to an empty string will disable all the official
default analyzers. In `.gitlab-ci.yml` define:
```yaml
include:
template: SAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
SAST_DEFAULT_ANALYZERS: ""
```
That's needed when one totally relies on [custom analyzers ](#custom-analyzers ).
## Custom Analyzers
You can provide your own analyzers as a comma separated list of Docker images.
Here's how to add `analyzers/csharp` and `analyzers/perl` to the default images:
In `.gitlab-ci.yml` define:
```yaml
include:
template: SAST.gitlab-ci.yml
variables:
SAST_ANALYZER_IMAGES: "my-docker-registry/analyzers/csharp,amy-docker-registry/analyzers/perl"
```
The values must be the full path to the container registry images,
like what you would feed to the `docker pull` command.
NOTE: **Note:**
This configuration doesn't benefit from the integrated detection step.
SAST has to fetch and spawn each Docker image to establish whether the
custom analyzer can scan the source code.
## Analyzers Data
| Property \ Tool | Apex | Bandit | Brakeman | ESLint security | Find Sec Bugs | Flawfinder | Go AST Scanner | NodeJsScan | Php CS Security Audit | Security code Scan (.NET) | TSLint Security | Sobelow |
| --------------------------------------- | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :------------------: | :---------------------: | :-------------------------: | :-------------: | :----------------: |
| Severity | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 |
| Title | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Description | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ |
| File | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Start line | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| End line | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 |
| Start column | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 |
| End column | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 |
| External id (e.g. CVE) | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ⚠ | 𐄂 | ⚠ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
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| URLs | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ⚠ | 𐄂 | ⚠ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
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| Internal doc/explanation | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ |
| Solution | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ⚠ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
| Confidence | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | ✓ |
| Affected item (e.g. class or package) | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
| Source code extract | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
| Internal ID | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 𐄂 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
- ✓ => we have that data
- ⚠ => we have that data but it's partially reliable, or we need to extract it from unstructured content
- 𐄂 => we don't have that data or it would need to develop specific or inefficient/unreliable logic to obtain it.
The values provided by these tools are heterogeneous so they are sometimes
normalized into common values (e.g., `severity` , `confidence` , etc).
