Integrate GitHub CodeQL with Vulnetix. Export SARIF results from CodeQL analysis and upload for centralized vulnerability management.
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace GitHub CodeQL. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of GitHub CodeQL (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
GitHub CodeQL is strongest at its core category and also carries features in Secret Scanning, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | GitHub CodeQL |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✓ Semantic code analysis with cross-file taint tracking across 11+ languages incl. Rust and Swift (now GA); the reference deep-SAST engine |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ✗ |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ✗ |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ✗ |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✗ |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ~ CodeQL itself is SAST; GitHub secret scanning is a separate GHAS product, not the CodeQL engine |
| Cloud / CSPM | ✓ Cloud-posture findings, compliance tab | ✗ |
| Mobile (MAST) | ~ Ingests mobile scanner output; no native mobile engine | ✗ |
| License compliance | ✓ SPDX, copyleft/AGPL/SSPL policy | ✗ |
| SBOM generation | ✓ CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Malware / supply-chain | ✓ De-duplicated corpus + install-time firewall (25+ registries) | ✗ |
| Network / infra vuln | ~ Ingests network scanner output; no native network scanner | ✗ |
| Fuzzing | ✗ Ingests fuzzing crashes; no native fuzzer | ✗ |
| Pentest / bug bounty | ✗ Ingests pentest/bug-bounty findings; not a testing service | ✗ |
| The Vulnetix orchestration layer | ||
| Cross-scanner dedup & one queue (ASPM) | ✓ Correlates every scanner into one prioritised queue with ownership routing | ✗ |
| Exploit-intel prioritisation | ✓ EPSS, CISA KEV, Coalition ESS, CWSS, Vulnetix LEV | ✗ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ Tree-sitter + CVEAffected; direct/transitive/semantic | ✗ |
| Versioned VEX + audit trail | ✓ Immutable OpenVEX/CycloneDX, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Safe Harbour autofix | ✓ Resolves + applies the nearest safe version | ~ Copilot Autofix opens LLM-generated fix PRs for a subset of CodeQL queries; suggestions need human review |
| End-of-life policy | ✓ Flags/blocks past-EOL runtimes & packages | ✗ |
| SSVC / risk-based policy | ✓ SSVC v2 + CISA/FedRAMP/Essential-8 presets | ✗ |
✓ full · ~ partial · ✗ not covered
What GitHub CodeQL does well
- Semantic, query-based analysis (code-as-data) with genuine cross-file taint/data-flow tracking, far deeper than pattern linters
- Broad compiled + dynamic language support: JS/TS, Python, Ruby, Go, Java/Kotlin, C/C++, C#, Rust, Swift (Rust and Swift now GA)
- Copilot Autofix generates LLM-suggested fix PRs for a subset of CodeQL alerts across most supported languages
- Free for public repos and deeply integrated into GitHub code scanning (native SARIF v2.1.0, PR annotations, Security tab)
Where Vulnetix adds to it: CodeQL is the deep-SAST core; Vulnetix ingests its SARIF into one deduplicated cross-scanner queue and layers exploit-intel prioritisation (EPSS/KEV/Coalition ESS/LEV), reachability correlation, immutable versioned VEX + audit, EOL and SSVC policy. Vulnetix also adds the non-SAST breadth CodeQL lacks. SCA across 40+ ecosystems, container, IaC, cloud/CSPM, license, SBOM, and malware/package-firewall. Where CodeQL's Autofix suggests code fixes, Vulnetix's Safe Harbour drives dependency remediation.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. GitHub CodeQL keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise GitHub CodeQL results in Vulnetix
Upload GitHub CodeQL SARIF output to the Vulnetix platform to deduplicate findings, prioritise them with EPSS, CISA KEV and Coalition ESS exploit intelligence, and track remediation across every scanner in a single queue.