Source code scanning (SAST)

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) analyses your source code to find security flaws — things like injection, hard-coded secrets, unsafe deserialisation and weak crypto — without running the application.

Because it works on code, it catches issues early in development, where they are cheapest to fix.

SecNxt parses your code and applies security rules across JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, Go, Ruby, C#/.NET and shell scripts, plus a light data-flow pass that traces untrusted input to dangerous sinks.

It detects injection, XSS, command execution, insecure deserialisation, SSRF, path traversal, weak crypto, hardcoded secrets (pattern + high-entropy) and risky configuration, each mapped to a CWE and OWASP category.

Ambiguous results are passed through an AI adjudication layer to cut false positives before they reach you; survivors get a file, line and remediation guidance and flow into the shared findings model.

1. 1Choose 'Source Code Scan' on the New scan screen.
2. 2Connect the repository or provide access to the code you want analysed.
3. 3Run the scan and wait for results.
4. 4Open each finding to see the exact location and how to fix it.
5. 5Fix, then re-scan to confirm the issue is gone.

• Catching insecure code in pull requests before merge.
• Auditing an inherited or third-party codebase.
• Meeting secure-development requirements for compliance.

• Wire SAST into CI/CD so every change is checked automatically.
• Triage by severity and verification tier to focus on confirmed, high-impact issues first.

Will SAST find every bug?

No tool finds everything. SAST is strongest on code-level flaws; pair it with DAST and human pentesting for full coverage.