Integrate MegaLinter with Vulnetix. Run 100+ linters across 50+ languages in a single Docker container with SARIF output.
Install & scan
$ docker pull oxsecurity/megalinter:v8 $ docker run --rm \ -v $(pwd):/tmp/lint \ -e SARIF_REPORTER=true \ oxsecurity/megalinter:v8
Run MegaLinter in CI
Scan on every push and upload the report as a workflow artifact:
- name: Run MegaLinter
uses: oxsecurity/megalinter@v8
env:
SARIF_REPORTER: true
- name: Upload to Vulnetix
run: |
for f in megalinter-reports/sarif/*.sarif; do
vulnetix upload --file "$f"
done
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace MegaLinter. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of MegaLinter (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
MegaLinter is strongest at its core category and also carries features in Secret Scanning, IaC & Cloud Configuration, Container & Image Scanning, SCA, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | MegaLinter |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✓ Runs Semgrep, Bandit, DevSkim as bundled SAST linters (megalinter.io descriptors) |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ~ Bundles Trivy, Grype, OSV-Scanner for dependency vuln scanning |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ✗ |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ~ Hadolint Dockerfile linting; Trivy image scan available |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✓ Checkov, tflint, terrascan, cfn-lint, kubescape, kubeconform |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ✓ Bundles Gitleaks, TruffleHog, Secretlint (megalinter repository descriptors) |
| 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 | ~ Aggregates many linters' output into one consolidated SARIF report, but no cross-scanner dedup or prioritisation |
| 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 | ✗ |
| 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 MegaLinter does well
- Meta-linter orchestration that runs 100+ linters across 50+ languages in one Docker container with auto-language detection
- Broad security coverage by bundling proven tools: Semgrep/Bandit/DevSkim (SAST), Gitleaks/TruffleHog/Secretlint (secrets), Checkov/tflint/terrascan/kubescape (IaC), Hadolint (containers), Trivy/Grype/OSV-Scanner (SCA/vulns)
- Consolidated SARIF reporter aggregates many linters into one output for CI dashboards
- Native CI/CD integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Bitbucket) with auto-fix for many formatting linters
Where Vulnetix adds to it: MegaLinter is a linter aggregator: it runs the tools and concatenates SARIF, but does not dedup overlapping findings, prioritise by exploitability, or track VEX/SSVC. Vulnetix ingests MegaLinter's consolidated SARIF and turns raw multi-tool noise into one deduplicated, EPSS/KEV/LEV-prioritised queue with reachability, versioned VEX, EOL and Safe Harbour autofix layered on top.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. MegaLinter keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise MegaLinter results in Vulnetix
Upload MegaLinter 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.