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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)
+- [Brakeman](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/brakeman)
+- [ESLint (Javascript)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/eslint)
+- [SpotBugs with the Find Sec Bugs plugin (Ant, Gradle and wrapper, Grails, Maven and wrapper, SBT)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/spotbugs)
+- [Flawfinder](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/flawfinder)
+- [Gosec](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/gosec)
+- [NodeJsScan](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/nodejs-scan)
+- [PHP CS security-audit](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/phpcs-security-audit)
+- [Secrets (Gitleaks, TruffleHog & Diffence secret detectors)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/secrets)
+- [Security Code Scan (.NET)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/security-code-scan)
+- [TSLint (Typescript)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/tslint)
+- [Sobelow (Elixir Phoenix)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/analyzers/sobelow)
+
+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 | 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) | 𐄂 | ⚠ | 𐄂 | ⚠ | ✓ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
+| URLs | 𐄂 | ✓ | 𐄂 | ⚠ | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
+| 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).