Integrate Pylint with Vulnetix. Run comprehensive Python code analysis covering style errors, logic bugs, and security anti-patterns, then upload the JSON report for centralised tracking.
Install & scan
$ # Run without installing globally (recommended) uv run --with pylint pylint --version # Or install globally pip install pylint $ uv run --with pylint pylint --output-format=json:pylint.json --recursive=yes src/
Run Pylint in CI
Scan on every push and upload the report as a workflow artifact:
- name: Run Pylint
run: |
pip install pylint
pylint --output-format=json:pylint.json --recursive=yes src/
- name: Upload to Vulnetix
run: vulnetix upload --file pylint.json
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Pylint. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Pylint (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Pylint |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ~ General static analysis catches bug-class defects; security-specific scanning is Bandit's domain, not Pylint's core |
| 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 | ✗ |
| 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 | ✗ |
| 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 Pylint does well
- Deepest full-AST Python analysis of the mainstream linters, five categories (errors, warnings, refactor, convention, fatal) with hundreds of checks
- Catches real bugs beyond style: undefined variables (E0602), wrong argument counts, unused imports, dangerous default args and design smells
- Highly configurable per-message enable/disable plus JSON and other machine-readable reporters for CI integration
- Plugin ecosystem (e.g. pylint-django) extends framework-aware analysis
Where Vulnetix adds to it: Vulnetix ingests Pylint output into its unified findings queue, dedups Python code findings against SCA/secrets/container results, and adds exploit-intel prioritisation, reachability and versioned VEX that a quality linter has no notion of. Vulnetix's built-in SAST plus Semgrep complements Pylint on the security-rule side; it never replaces Pylint as the Python code-quality linter.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Pylint keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Pylint results in Vulnetix
Upload Pylint JSON 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.