Integrate Renovate with Vulnetix. Configure Renovate to create security update PRs on your repositories, enabling continuous patching of vulnerabilities detected by Vulnetix.
Install & scan
$ # Run locally or in CI without global install npx renovate --help # Or use the Mend Renovate GitHub App (zero-config) # Install at: https://github.com/apps/renovate $ npx renovate --token $GITHUB_TOKEN --dry-run your-org/your-repo
Run Renovate in CI
Scan on every push and upload the report as a workflow artifact:
name: Renovate
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 3 * * *'
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
renovate:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v5
- name: Run Renovate
uses: renovatebot/github-action@v40
with:
token: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Renovate. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Renovate (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
Renovate is strongest at its core category and also carries features in License Compliance, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Renovate |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✗ |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ~ Detects vulnerable deps via OSV/GitHub advisories to drive security update PRs; not a full scanner |
| 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 | ~ Can surface dependency license metadata; no policy enforcement engine |
| 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 | ✓ Core capability: automated fix/upgrade PRs, grouping, auto-merge, and dependency-replacement migrations |
| 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 Renovate does well
- Broadest dependency-update coverage available: 90+ package managers across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and Gitea, with automatic package-file discovery including monorepos
- Best-in-class automated PR remediation: grouping, scheduling to reduce noise, auto-merge, and replacement PRs to migrate off deprecated dependencies
- Security-driven updates from OSV.dev and GitHub Security Advisories via osvVulnerabilityAlerts/vulnerabilityAlerts, raising immediate fix PRs that bypass normal scheduling when a CVE lands
- Highly configurable presets and regex-based custom managers make it adaptable to almost any repo layout or update policy
Where Vulnetix adds to it: Renovate is the gold standard for producing dependency-update PRs but is driven by OSV/GitHub advisory data and has no cross-scanner dedup, exploit prioritisation, or VEX. Vulnetix does full transitive SCA across 40+ ecosystems, prioritises with EPSS/KEV/ESS/LEV and reachability, then applies Safe Harbour autofix; teams can run Renovate as the PR-delivery mechanism while Vulnetix decides which fixes actually matter and records the VEX/SSVC decision. Better together.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Renovate keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Renovate results in Vulnetix
Upload Renovate 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.